i. If the CEO of a beverage company such as Dr Pepper Snapple asked you whether backward or forward integration would be better for the firm, how would you respond?
ii. Explain why cultural factors should be an important consideration in analyzing and choosing among alternative strategies.
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TASK 2:
Go to the end of Chapter 5 and
Do Exercise 5B “Should Coca-Cola, Build, Borrow, or Buy in2020 -2021?” Steps 1, 2, and 3 (minimum of one page assignment). (When accessing Coca-Cola’s website, you’ll have to click on “Press Center,”.)
Then go to the end of Chapter 6 and do:
Exercise 6A “Perform a SWOT Analysis for Coca-Cola” as an individual, one page assignment.