Environmental Factors

Environmental factors can play a major part in a company's marketing plan. Environmental factors can include social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and ethical issues. PepsiCo can face all these issues because they are a global company. Many of these issues can affect PepsiCo's marketing plan even in different areas of the United States. Larger environmental factors affect the way they market globally with different factors having to be considered in each area of the world.

A company operates within a larger framework of the external environment that shapes the opportunities and threat to an organization. The external environment for global and domestic marketing decisions is comprised of forces that are part of a company's marketing process but is external to the organization. Those forces include the organization's market, its producer's suppliers, and intermediaries. It would be necessary for companies to understand that the environmental conditions because the conditions interact with marketing strategy decisions.

Plaza Venezuela, Caracas

Elmwood, Louisiana. Pepsi-Cola plant.

English: PepsiCo world headquarters

The external environmental has a huge impact on the determination of marketing decisions. Any successful company will scan the external environment that affects them so they would be able to respond profitably to the unmet needs and trends in targeted markets.

PepsiCo is a large company that conducts both domestic and global marketing and is very well known. One of the main products and one that I use everyday is Pepsi. PepsiCo also produces Quaker Oats, Lays chips, Gatorade, and Tropicana orange juice.

With the world so focused on ecological factors in today's environment, it is only wise for PepsiCo to align itself with the majority. PepsiCo continues to be immersed in ecological environmental factors. Domestically PepsiCo has pledged themselves to the Greenhouse Gas Cuts, hoping to reduce gas emissions enough to equal the use of 5 million automobiles (PepsiCo.com). PepsiCo operates a state-of-the-art...