6. THE COCA-COLA'S PATNA PLANT Coke begins its operation on 4th Sept. 1998 by taking over the franchise bottler. It is located at E-I Industrial Area, Patliputra. Plant is spread over an area of 1.75 acres and houses most sophisticated machinery to produce coca-cola and many other brands marketed by the company. The manufacturing unit of HCCBPL, situated at Patliputra Industrial area Patna (Bihar), is the third largest plant and one of the bottling operations owned by the company. The Plant has one RGB (Returnable glass bottles) lines which yields 600 bottles per minute. The plant can produce around 18000 cases of soft drinks per day and employees 200 workers to do the same.
19. Market Segmentation The purpose for segmenting a market is to allow your marketing/sales program to focus on the subset of prospects that are "most likely" to purchase your offering. If done properly this will help to insure the highest return for your marketing/sales expenditures. Depending on whether you are selling your offering to individual consumers or a business, there are definite differences in what you will consider when defining market segments.