Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and
manufactured by PepsiCo. It was created and developed in 1893 and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, then to Pepsi in 1961. Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. PERSONALITY Personality is those inner psychological characteristic that both determine and reflect how a person responds to his or environments. As see on this Pepsi drinks, the personality that are reflect on this product are more on spirited, happiness, down to earth and rhythm ..NATURES OF PERSONALITY
Personality Reflects Individual Differences
On this nature, personality is a unique combination of factor. On this nature, some consumer have high in ethnocentrism that is they are willing to accept foreign- made product such as accept this Pepsi drinks. PERSONALITY AND UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.
CONSUMER INNOVATIVENESS AND RELATED
PERSONALITY TRAITS Consumer Dogmatism Is a personality trait that measured the degree of rigidity (versus openness) that individual display towards the unfamiliar and towards information that is constrains in their own establishing belief. ATTITUDE FORMATION Towards securing their customers Pepsi Company has relates some of the customer attitudes when buying their product especially Pepsi beverages products. To convincing their customer Pepsi has applied a few methods based on customer attitude natures, sources of influence on attitude formation and strategies of attitudes changes. ATTITUDE FORMATION When Pepsi has studied on their customer attitudes Pepsi company will using sources which will influence them on attitudes formation. Attitudes formation is how the Pepsi customer itself are learned. There is a lot of source on attitudes formation, but Pepsi company only apply 3 of it, which: personal experiences, influence and mass media. The personal experiences can be divided into two, which is a direct experience, where the customers buy, and go through their own experiences, then they will give their opinion about the Pepsi product itself whether it is a good product or not, if it is a positive experience, the customer will tends to make a repeat purchase. If not the customer will ignore the product and will not buy it again. the influence, where it plays the biggest role in attitudes formation because it may contributes to a very long chain of product life cycle. The main people who are in the influence group are family, and friends. Buying attitudes formation based on family will encourage the other member of the family will tends or influenced by the family members such as if a mother always buy a Pepsi cola drinks in every celebration in their house, it might influence the children for example to buy the Pepsi cola drinks product when they have any functions or a celebration with their friends. Not only family but the friends also have the power to influence the others friends to buy he mass media. Pepsi used mass media as their medium to makes their customer knows and aware about the new products promotions and information. Not only a purpose towards the product but to influence them in formation of emotions and feelings. For example in the television advertisement, Pepsi used to change their advertisement based on current celebrations such World Cup, which it will attract the customers attention who mad with football, assuming that Pepsi also do understand their interest in football. SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths
The Pepsi image is displayed on T-shirt, Cap and Bat this
extremely recognizable branding isone of the greatest strengths. Pepsi bottling system is one of their greatest strengths. Weaknesses
Pepsi has recently reported some declines in unit case volume
in Indonesia and Thailand dueto reduce the consumer Purchasing power. Pepsi has effects on the teeth which is an issue for health care.22 Chap5 Opportunities CONCLUSION PepsiCo use three major criteria in dividing their customer that criteria are; Demographic, psychographic and use rate segmentation. Where in demographic, Pepsi targeted consumer was determine by who actually the customer are. In psychogaphic, it is determine through how the customer think and in used rate, the customer are divided in term of how much they consume