  {"id":1698,"date":"2015-12-06T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/coco-a-taiwanese-treat-with-global-heart\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:57:51","slug":"coco-a-taiwanese-treat-with-global-mind","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/coco-a-taiwanese-treat-with-global-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"CoCo, a Taiwanese treat with Global mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CoCo, a Taiwanese fresh-made tea brand, has been providing high quality take away beverage including boba tea since 1997 and has grown globally in recent years as well.<\/p>\n<p>(company website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coco-tea.com\/bin\/home.php?Lang=en\">http:\/\/www.coco-tea.com\/bin\/home.php?Lang=en<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>CoCo\u2019s mission is the relentless pursuit of soothing people with high quality drinks, manifesting in the business model of premium brand position, variety customer choices, and consistent, organic growth trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>To support above business model, CoCo aligns its operating models in below important ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Product innovation: CoCo leads the fresh-made beverage industry with 30% new product introduced every year, including seasonal and localized flavors to entertain customers\u2019 wide preferences. To support the fast innovation, CoCo established R&amp;D centers at homeland Taiwan as well as abroad to leverage local creativity, not copy-pasting the existing popular recipe and scale up for quick, speculative money. Also, CoCo leads the industry to establish a global sourcing system, facilitating the trial of variety materials at the top of the development funnel to come down with more hot selling flavors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Quality control: to make sure the quality is consistent across all franchise stores globally, CoCo adopts a thorough 6-month training with new potential partners before they open the shops so that every operation details is well communicated. On-line education are supported by Taiwan&#8217;s high quality ICT infrastructure as well. On the other hand, CoCo\u2019s preparation and storage methods for fresh-made beverage materials are tailored to the unique characteristics of each of the ingredients, and all tea and ingredients are freshly made and prepared right in the stores in front of the customers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Organization growth: Apart from the common economic of scale and low price game other fresh-made beverage brands are playing, CoCo pursues high quality product position to claim price premium. Also, CoCo favors an organic\/consistent growing path, which appropriately seeks expansion opportunities only when the business is ready instead of grabbing initial market shares in a rush. Take a look at Coco\u2019s expansion history, from 1997 to 2010 there were rough 200 stores, and after the centralized operation organization was ready CoCo quickly expanded to 1,200 stores by 2014.Though it speeds up the expansion, till now CoCo still adopts regional joint alliance model rather than direct franchise. Each region CoCo did strict due diligence on potential partners, and would only authorize the right to sell CoCo products if the partner has proven the ability of regional operation and with shared high quality pursuit vision. CoCo would then make sure it would have the majority stakes in the new joint alliance to keep centralized control.A variety backgrounds of engineering, business development, finance of the management team also contributes to CoCo\u2019s global success. Fresh-made beverage is usually a localized business, and only after the system of centralized global operation as well as oversea implementation has established, which involved many areas of expertise, can fresh-made beverage stores cross the national borders and deliver the consistent quality and customer satisfaction.In 2011 CoCo entered US market, and in 2013 CoCo became the first Taiwanese fresh-made beverage brand operated in Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Above all, CoCo has minded the community service and social responsibility as well. Their marketing initiatives usually tie with local events, for example promotions with new movie release in a local cinema, while on the other hand CoCo was also a generous donator to public caring and sponsor of cultural education events.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to Coco\u2019s future performance and the more pleasant surprise its new flavors give us. More could be seen on its company introduction video@<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9NQ5TilIPFg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9NQ5TilIPFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/coco1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1701\" src=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/coco1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"coco\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/coco1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/coco1-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/coco1.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;source&gt;<\/p>\n<p>1.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coco-tea.com\/bin\/home.php?Lang=en\">http:\/\/www.coco-tea.com\/bin\/home.php?Lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u7d93\u7565\u4e9e\u592a&#8212;\u5ee0\u5546\u5728\u53f0\u71df\u904b\u6210\u529f\u6848\u4f8b\u3009\u4e4b\u4e8c\/\u53f0\u5546, CoCo\u90fd\u53ef\u8336\u98f2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoCo, a Taiwanese fresh-made tea brand, has been providing high quality take away beverage including boba tea since 1997 and has grown globally in recent years as well.<br \/>\nCoCo\u2019s mission is the relentless pursuit of soothing people with high quality drinks, manifesting in the business model of premium brand position, variety customer choices, and consistent, organic growth trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1330,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[336],"class_list":["post-1698","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tom-winners"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/assignment\/the-tom-challenge-tom-winners-and-losers-assignment\/","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CoCo, a Taiwanese treat with Global mind - Technology and Operations Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/coco-a-taiwanese-treat-with-global-mind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CoCo, a Taiwanese treat with Global mind - Technology and Operations Management\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CoCo, a Taiwanese fresh-made tea brand, has been providing high quality take away beverage including boba tea since 1997 and has grown globally in recent years as well. 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