Coca Cola's Global Marketing

Coca Cola’s Domestic and Global Marketing

MKT/421 - Marketing

Nov. 8, 2010

In this highly competitive and changing environment, making decision at both domestic and international level is a very complicated task. At the time of making decision, it is important for the management to analyze the external environmental factors (Macro Environment) at both domestic and international level. The goal of environmental scanning is to better understand the threats and opportunities created by the variables and how strategic plans need to be adjust, so that firm can obtain and retain competitive advantages. According to David Jobber, the macro environment consists of forces that originate outside of an organization and generally cannot be altered by actions of the organization. This macro environmental analysis includes various factors such as demographics, difference in the culture, impact of technology, legal and political, economic environment, etc.  (Jobber, 2001). 



About Company: Coca Cola 


Coca Cola is one of the leading beverage companies of the industry. Coca Cola has business campaigns in all over the world. It serves different types of products and drinks to customers such as soft drinks, bottled water, tea, sport juices, etc. In order to produce and distributes various drinks and products, Coca-Cola has a franchising model (Coca-Cola Bottling, 2008). It is important for the management to accomplish an external analysis to develop effective strategies and make decision based on domestic and international level. Coca cola is related to Beverages-Soft Drinks industry, which depends heavily on economic environment for marketing decision. Fortune of industry and business heavily rests on the purchasing power of the people and purchasing power is largely a product of economic environment (Ramaswamy & Namakumari, 2007). According to the news report of Reuters, due to the recession in the U.S economy, Coca Cola has faced approx 4% loss in their quarterly...