Thursday, February 1, 2007

MMMMM Coca-Cola

http://http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070201/clth056.html?.v=78www.cnbc.com/id/16924375
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/16597384.htm
http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22coca-cola%22

Basically, what we see here is some globalization and some really good trading in disguise. Coca-Cola is picking up this juice and tea company that is bassed in New Jersey. This company is called Fuze Beverage LLC. They are picking up all these different kinds of drinks, enhanced water products and energy drinks. I've given two links to the articles because they are really short, but this is primo stuff right here. It makes me want to go throw money into Coca-Cola stocks. I also added a link to a google search for Coca-Cola in the news because this is a new thing right here and I want to be able to check up on the status of this every so often. I mean they only released this idea Thursday (today) morning. According to one of these websites, Coca-Cola is the proud owner of the title for the world's largest beverage company. They have Fanta, Sprite, Juices, Teas, Coffees, sports drinks, etc. There beverages are enjoyed in more than 200 companies, serving up more than 1.3 billion servings every day. WOW!!! I think this is soo neat, and it really shows globalization. Let's not forget that Wheelen's book opens ujp talking about this wonderful beverage maker.

So we can clearly see why globlaization and Coca-Cola fit together in a neat little package. But, it's also pretty cool to think about how Coca-Cola will be picking up more beverages, which will increase Coca-Sales, but will probably make this juice company so big and so great that they will be hiring mreo employees and expanding. I ahve never heard of these alleged Fuze drinks, but I bet you I will see them in our stores within a month or two. They will have pimped out labels (excuse my language), they will have awesome commercials, etc. Coca-Cola picked this company up and is going to do it right. It's kind of like PepsiCo, which is a great company, I love it. Pepsi owns sports drinks, water drinks, milk drinks, malt drinks, sodas, juices, probably teas and other stuff, they own Fritos and other chip brancds. I mean, you walk into a store to buy a drink, and the probability that you pick up a PepsiCo product is pretty darn high.
Again, this relates to class stuff because it is about trading. Coca-Cola is trading it's brand name for a new product. COca-Cola gains new drinks, Fuze gains a great name for their product.

I think this stuff is great. I love Coca-Cola, I love how the soda companies take over the world, and I am dead serious when I say, I want stock in this company. Live the good life---

1 comment:

KM said...

Another interesting one! We'll talk about this more with market types, because coke & pepsi are oligopolies - they buy out or put out of business anyone that tries to actively compete with them.

Stocks...if you're interested, you can set up a fake stock tracker at http://finance.yahoo.com to see what Coke does over time. Coke's ticker symbol is KO. It's easy enough to do - I have my reg econ follow stocks all semester long. I have a giant packet outlining how to do it if you're curious. Or...not, because it's more work. :)