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Coke says it will kill more 'zombie' brands, weeks after dropping Odwalla

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San Francisco (CNN Business) is on an operation to take out some "zombies."The beverage giant, fresh off announcing the , is considering dumping other "zombie brands" — or those that aren't growing — to help cut costs, Coke's CEO James Quincey said on the company's second-quarter earnings call Tuesday.During the past few months, Coca-Cola — — streamlined its product offerings and zeroed in on its larger and best-selling brands to help ease the strain on supply chains. Coca-Cola is now doubling down on those efforts. In Coca-Cola's second quarter, which ended on June 26, the company saw sales drop 28% to $7.2 billion."We are shifting to prioritizing fewer but bigger and stronger brands across various consumer needs," Quincey said. "At the same time, we need to do a better job nurturing and growing smaller, more enduing propositions and exiting some zombie brands."Read MoreMore than half of Coca-Cola's 400 brands are ones with "little to no scale" and have sales that represent only 2% of total revenue, Quincey said.Quincey did not name specific brands the company was considering dropping, and a Coca-Cola spokesman declined to provide additional comment.This isn't Coca-Cola's first zombie hunt. During the past two years, the company has been, products, flavors and packaging that were not delivering as high of returns as other products. In the first half of last year, Coca-Cola eliminated more than 275 products, Quincey said during a July 2019 earnings call.One of the company's most notable zombies was , a reformulation introduced in April 1985 . "The lesson of New Coke was not so much the conviction to launch it but the courage to withdraw it after less than 80 days," Francisco Crespo, Coca-Cola's former chief growth officer wrote in a about the product culling. - CNN Business' Danielle Wiener-Bronner contributed to this report.

San Francisco (CNN Business) is on an operation to take out some "zombies."The beverage giant, fresh off announcing the , is considering dumping other "zombie brands" — or those that aren't growing — to help cut costs, Coke's CEO James Quincey said on the company's second-quarter earnings call Tuesday.During the past few months, Coca-Cola — — streamlined its product offerings and zeroed in on its larger and best-selling brands to help ease the strain on supply chains. Coca-Cola is now doubling down on those efforts. In Coca-Cola's second quarter, which ended on June 26, the company saw...

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