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Pepsi Co, Sustainability Report

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endeavors. It has played its part in the betterment of the society through recycling, obesity reduction, education, water usage and environmental projects gaining customer loyalty and elevating the positive brand image (Pepsi Co, Sustainability report 2013). • Pepsi Co has a very high growth rate as a result of the mergers, acquisitions and presence in developing and emerging markets. Moreover Pepsi Co was amongst the first American companies entering China. The company 's total investment exceeded 10 billion Yuan $1.6 billion (Zhang, 2012). • Pepsi Co is regarded by many critics to be the ‘most proactive and progressive of the food companies’ (Warner, 2010). • Pepsi Co spends a generous amount of its finances on its advertisement campaigns and marketing as a result of which there has always been a boost in the sales and increase in the brand popularity (Klara, 20111). Weaknesses • Pepsi Co is over dependant on Wal-Mart, since more than 11 percent of its revenue is attributed to it. This gives Wal-Mart an edge and bargaining power over Pepsi Co, making it easy for it to dictate prices and other such demands. Losing Wal-Mart would severely affect Pepsi Co since 11 percent of the revenues would be lost (Warner 2006; Riper 2007). • 51 percent of the Pepsi Co’s revenue comes from the US. This makes the company vulnerable because any fluctuations n the economic conditions or other political and social disturbances in the US would drastically affect the brand (Appendix A)

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