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Problem: Pepsi Co Financial Analysis
This section is titled "Profile and History"
Include a profile and history of PepsiCo This section should include any interesting and important information about your company that does not belong in any of the other sections. For example: What products or services does the company sell? In what year was the IPO? How has the stock performed (both over the long term and more recently; include graphs of the stock price)?
This section is titled "Strategy Analysis / Understanding the Business" - (Maximum 2-3 pages)
Question I. Porter Five Forces Analysis (Chapter 1 pages 10-13 in the ACG 6175 e-book in the attachments) Have a paragraph for each of the 5 forces. Define each force and incorporate each force with PepsiCo. Here's an example of how the paragraph should look:
• "Rivalry Among Existing Firms (Low): Used to determine the direct rivalry among existing firms in the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry, this force is typically the first order in competition analysis. The greater the industry concentration, the lower the competition among existing rivals and the morx profitable the firms -honored business keeps its competition among existing firms low with its uniquely diverse line of products ranging from the automotive, commercial solutions, communications, consumer, construction, electronics, energy, health care, manufacturing, safety, and transportation industries. As a cross-on all the same products as 3M. General Electric competes with 3M in the energy and healthcare segments while Honeywell competes in healthcare, consumer, and safety - but none operate in all the same as 3M making the competitive rivalry among existing firms low. In addition, as technology advances, the 3M and the entire Specialty Industrial Machinery industry have opportunities innovation, investing $1.911B in research and development in 2019, proving it is dedicated to growth."
Question II. What strategy does PepsiCo implement? Cost leadership strategy or product differentiation strategy? (Read the PepsiCo 2022 annual report in the attachments for the strategy as they have a lot of info there. You can get information from the book and web, just please use credible sources like Yahoo Finance, etc.)