In 2000, Coca-Cola was the world’s largest beverage company. Coca-Cola and their bottlers used eighty billion gallons of water yearly for production and employee sanitation (Lawrence and Weber, 2011, p. 48). This vast water usage, created public issues related to water quality, availability and worldwide access. The Center for Science and the Environment, activists, local residents and India’s government expected Coca-Cola to conduct operations in ways that protected both the environment and consumers of their products. Instead, the corporation’s practices depleted India’s water supply and contaminated the products sold to their customers.
Choose a country where a water transfer scheme or a large dam has been created. Explain the advantages and disadvantages the shame has brought, or will bring, to the country. The project’s eventual goal is to move 44.8 billion cubic meters of water across the c Advantages | Disadvantages | | Diverting water hurts 2 most important rivers: the Han, the main source of water for about 30 million people, and the Yangtze, which runs through 11 provinces and supports up to 400 million people. | A slower-flowing river - slower at depositing the sediments along the riverbed which help mitigate pollution and nurture the river’s ecosystem. | A lower water volume - more saltwater from the sea filters into the Yangtze’s estuary.
For such unethical behavior I would create a system to fix the work environments sanitation, and raise the wages to minimum wage for the workers. Nike did create a code, which is called SHAPE: Safety, Health, Attitude, People, and Environment. The code, adhering to regulations for fire safety, air quality, minimum wage, and overtime limits (Brause, Alberto). Other companies like Wal Mart typically pays its sales associates, cashiers, team leaders, and overnight stocker’s 26-37% less than the national average for the same jobs in the retail industry. There have also been reports of teenagers in Bangladesh working in sweatshops 80 hours per week at $0.14 per hour (Barstow, David).
By the end of 2005, Starbucks owned more than 10,000 stores and roasted 2.3 percent of the world’s coffee. To support such a high growth rate, Starbucks should ensure a sustainable supply of high-quality coffee beans through well-rounded supply chain to meet company’s future success. Moreover, from a sustainable point of view, Starbucks is facing a tremendous threat – global climate change. The same forests that produce the world’s best coffee and sustain millions of farmers also extract and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide. In fact, when they are destroyed, these forests release dangerous greenhouse gas into our atmosphere.
Renewing the natural ecosystem for a healthier food chain 11 CONCLUSION 14 APPENDIX 15 REFERENCES 16 INTRODUCTION In Vietnam, during the period of 1961-1971, American army sprayed more than 80 million liters of toxic chemical substances, most of which were Agent Orange which contained about 400 kilograms of dioxin. This weapon of mass destruction has caused great suffering to countless families and left serious consequences on the natural environment and generations of Vietnamese. For the time being, it is estimated that there have been 4.8 million Vietnamese people victimized by Agent Orange/dioxin. They reside mainly along the Trail of Truong Son and in areas bordering Cambodia. Tens of thousands of them have died.
Around 1 million Africans are employed to the biggest soft drink brand in the world - Coca-Cola. They have been there since 1929 and is the continents largest employer, "with 65,000 employees and 160 plants". A study at the University of South Carolina found that, "1% of South Africa's economy was tied up, one way or another, in the distribution and sale of Coke". With the population of each African nation being typically higher than in most other continents, it gives a large pool of opportunity to global companies like Coca-Cola to invest in local labourers at a reasonable price. The fact is that a high population also opens up a large pool of customers as well.
1. In the video the macro environment of PepsiCo was largely influenced by the demographics and cultural ways of India where by the demonstrated a violent protest, because in that area water is a very valued resource and PepsiCo were destroying their rivers with chemical waste, whiles the people of that country go thirsty for water. Diversity: PepsiCo diversify the world by being the first major company to market to African Americans, they say that as an untapped resource and took full advantage of it which was proven successful. Technological Environment: these are the forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities. 1.
The dam was built to create electricity and water storage for their population which is migrating from a sustainable existence to a more urban culture. Since more Chinese gave up farming, the cities in which they do need more electricity and water than the cities in a rural existence. Also, It will prevent heavy floods downstream. The dam will conduct eight times the megawatts of what the Hoover Dam produces. The dam was completed in 2009, and cost around 24 billion dollars.
While PepsiCo have diversified into healthier products and snack food business, Coca Cola have fell in marketing investments (advertising and marketing research) to maintain short term profit. As PepsiCo initiated the acquisition of Tropicana for $3.3Billion in 1998 (New York Times,1998)3, it have set itself up as the largest producer of branded juices for the health conscious in the USA. Subsequent acquisitions of Quaker Oats, Gatorade, Lay’s and Aquafina have also contributed positioned PepsiCo as the world’s 4th largest Food & Beverage (F&B) company with sales of US$22,000Million. The reluctance to diversify was evident when Coca-Cola decided against acquiring South Beach Beverage Company after negotiating for two years while Pepsi made an offer and in weeks acquired the SoBe brand New Age juice company, which gave Pepsi access to a market completely bypassed by soda
Introduction Recent research has estimated that over the past decade Americans have doubled the amount of bottled water they consume (EWG). America is the leading consumer of bottled water, with the Chinese and South American markets growing rapidly (Lee 1). In 2005, bottled water was a forty-three billion dollar global market; this market has been growing at a rate of 9% a year (Worms 13). The consumption and production of bottled water destroys the environment, depletes natural resources, endangers wildlife, and the marketing by the bottling industry misleads consumers. The consumer is unaware of the negative effects of bottled water consumption.