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46 unusual facts about Pepsi


1989 in Scottish television

2 March – After much publicity, a two minute advert for Pepsi featuring Madonna's single Like a Prayer is shown during a commercial break on ITV 12 minutes into The Bill.

2x2 Project

El-Sayed also told ABC news at the time that Beyonce should reconsider her deal to become a spokesperson for Pepsi.

8-Way Santa

Pepsi filed a lawsuit against the band for using their logo on the single "Jack Pepsi".

Admiral Beverage

Admiral Beverage is a corporation based out of Worland, Wyoming which produces and distributes Pepsi products.

Antoinette Martignoni

Martignoni created illustrations for large United States corporations (such as Avis Rent A Car System, Pepsi, H. J. Heinz Company, Nabisco and Duracell).

Attack the Gas Station

The film also makes a comment on American economic imperialism during a scene where Ddan Dda-Ra drinks from a can of Pepsi and a police officer chides him for his choice, chastising him for "giving money to the Yankees."

Beach volleyball

It awarded the best teams with a case of Pepsi, supplied by Dr. Caleb Mohrhauser, often noted as one of the most enthusiastic patrons of early beach volleyball.

Big Hawk

He was part of Pepsi's Yahoo! "Houston Mic Pass" with Lil' Flip, Chamillionaire, Trae, Chingo Bling, Bun B, Short Dawg, Magno and Mike D. Since his death, Hawk has been featured on several tracks including Lil O's "I Do" single, "Down In Texas" off of the 2008 A.B.N. album It Is What It Is, and Big Unk's "I'ma Beast" to name a few.

Bobby Bloom

Bloom received a big break in 1969 when he was awarded a contract to write and record a jingle for Pepsi, paving the way for his later success with "Montego Bay."

Chamula

Chamula families kneel on the floor of the church with sacrificial items, stick candles to the floor with melted wax, drink ceremonial cups of Posh, artisanal sugar-cane-based liquor, Coca Cola or Pepsi, and chant prayers in an archaic dialect of Tzotzil.

Chuck-A-Rama

Over thirty soft drinks are available to choose from including both Coke and Pepsi products in their regular and non-caffeinated forms.

Comedy Cellar

Much of Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary Comedian was filmed at the club, and it also can be seen in a 2006 Pepsi commercial starring SNL star Jimmy Fallon.

Dale F. Halton Arena

Halton Arena was named for the former President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte.

Dic Ann's Hamburgers

They only serve Pepsi, and other brands of soft drinks owned by Pepsico.

Enterprise social networking

To build brand loyalty through support of charitable giving, Pepsi decided to forego Super Bowl ads in favor of launching the Pepsi Refresh Project that helps people improve their communities through a variety of projects submitted and chosen through web voting by the general public funded by the Pepsi.

Freshness Burger

Freshness does not serve fountain-style soft drinks that are typical of fast food restaurant chains, although it does offer Pepsi Nex (a calorie-free variation of Pepsi developed in Japan) and 7 Up.

Fried Coke

A New York Times article published in 2007 about the Indiana State Fair mentions deep-fried Pepsi as being an innovation.

GE Dash 8-32BWH

They were nicknamed "Pepsi Cans" by many railfans, due to being delivered in a wide-striped red, white, and blue livery.

Girl Power! Live in Istanbul

The concerts, which were organized by Pepsi as part of the group's sponsorship deal, were performed at the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on 12 and 13 October 1997.

Golin Harris International

They created "mission control centers" similar to what Pepsi has done for Gatorade in London, New York and San Francisco focused on real-time social media engagement.

Harold Zirin

While attending Bassick High School, Zirin's home-built telescope won him a Westinghouse Prize, a Pepsi-Cola Scholarship, and scholarships to Harvard University as class of 1946 Valedictorian.

How It Works

The single from the album "Not the Same" was used by Pepsi in an advertising campaign in Australia.

J. Hemachandran

Amongst other things, J. Hemachandran campaigned for a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi sales in Tamil Nadu and coordinated relief work in the state after the 2004 tsunami.

Joe Leeway

The experience with Slaves of New York seemed to stall Leeway's career as an actor permanently, but he continued to work in sound design for films as well as commercials for Nike and Pepsi.

JustGive

Employees and Board members have worked for the following companies: Ashoka, ChoiceStream, Goldman Sachs, Netbooks, Pepsi, TPG Capital, TechTV, Twitter, World Bank, and UBS.

Kobie Powell

He has recorded local and national radio commercials for Pepsi, Burger King and Mountain Dew, among other companies.

Lois Cahall

Now a syndicated radio personality she is sponsored by Pepsi.

Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. began directing at an early age with promotional trailers for Toyota, Peugeot, Renault, Stella Artois, Pepsi, and Bud Light.

Mohamed Yehia Zakaria

He is the co-founder and was chief executive of Dubai Refreshments (Pepsi), in Dubai, and institutionalized the soft drink industry in the Middle East.

Along with Shaikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum the Al Owais, Al Mulla family and Qais Bin Abdul Munaim Al Zawawi, he negotiated the deal to make Dubai the first place in the Middle East to bottle, distribute and market the Pepsi brand.

Move Over

First released as an album track from the group's sophomore studio album Spiceworld, it was eventually released as a promotional single in 1998, as part of their endorsement with Pepsi.

Norman Sisisky

Sisisky became a successful businessman, founding an independent bottling company that later became a part of Pepsi's Virginia operations.

Pennsauken Township, New Jersey

Pennsauken is home to a large industrial park that includes a Pepsi bottling plant and J & J Snack Foods.

Pori Brewery

In 1970's and 1980's Pori Brewery was also manufacturing soft drinks like Pepsi and Teem under the license from PepsiCo.

Power Brands

Ezra had worked in the consumer packaged goods industry for 15 years; Molina, prior to joining Power Brands, had a history of 20 years in the beverage industry working with industry giants such as Nestle and Pepsi.

Retila

Major sponsors, such as MGD, Mt. Dew, and Pepsi jumped aboard and uses the magazines grass-roots style to introduce their products to young Hispanics.

Rey Ruiz

Ruiz's initial success as a singer translated into small screen success as well, as he was hired by Pepsi, Miller beer and his studio company, Sony, to film commercials announcing their brand.

Santiago, Philippines

, Pepsi Cola, Purefoods, Digitel and PLDT also operate in the city while different car companies abound(i.e. Mitsubishi, Nissan, Isuzu, Hyundai, KIA, Ford, other car companies as well as Yamaha and Honda Motors).

Start Making A Reader Today

In 2010, SMART participated in Pepsi's Refresh Challenge and running for the $250,000 prize.

The Gambit

In 2008 The Gambit inked a brand partnership deal with Pepsi.

The Green Men

The duo appeared in Pepsi advertising, in a series of ads including Mohan Singh Vinning (PunJohnny Canuck) and Amie Nguyen (Queen Canuck).

Travel Air

Aside from the Wichita Fokkers seen in such movies as Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels, likely the most famous of the open cockpit biplanes was N434N, a D4D (the ultimate derivative of the BW) painted in Pepsi colours for airshow and skywriting use which survives in the National Air & Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy annex.

Vladimir Guerrero

He fared better in a national TV ad for Pepsi with the Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez; the two engaged in a personal home run competition that ended up with the moon being broken.

WeMade Entertainment

Sponsored by Pepsi, Skechers, GomTV and Mizuno, WeMade FOX possessed several high-earning players including NaDa and Jang Jae "Moon" Ho.

Willie Varner

There was a Pepsi bottle made with Varner’s face on it after he was named to the National High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Wythe County, Virginia

Recently Gatorade and Pepsi manufacturing facilities have located here, primarily due to the ease of access and central location along the Eastern seabord.


2012 ISF Women's World Championship

The 2012 ISF Women's World Championship is an international softball competition being held at Pepsi Softball Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada from July 13 to July 22, 2012.

Andrew D. Bernstein

Other projects include advertising campaigns featuring some of the world’s top athletes for Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Icy Hot.

Cavan Cola

It was popular in Cavan, and at the peak of its popularity (late 1980s/early 1990s), the product often outsold global brands (like Coke and Pepsi) in shops in County Cavan and County Leitrim and the surrounding area.

Derek Vanlint

He worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.

Edward Boyd

Edward F. Boyd (1914–2007), American marketing executive at Pepsi

Fictional brand

Sometimes a specific brand is needed because of its prior associations; e.g. the Coca-Cola machine scene in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove would not work with any other real or fictional brand (except possibly Pepsi).

Frigoglass

The company's customer base consists of the Coca-Cola Company Bottlers (Coca-Cola Hellenic, Coca-Cola Enterprises, BIG, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola Sabco), Brewers (Heineken, SABMiller, Carlsberg, ABInbev, Efes), Pepsi and Dairy companies (Nestle, Danone) and many others.

Hasan Zaidi

Hasan has acted in over 15 TV serials - to name a few Kumkum, Pepsi 'A.D.A', Ghar Ek Sapna, Powder, Rishta.com and has come back to the small screen with a lead role as Mohit in the show Khotey Sikkey.

Paso de los Toros

In Uruguay, Pepsi manufactures a Paso de los Toros soft drink named after the city.

Paul Biondi

He has composed background music for many popular television shows, including:MTV Cribs, CBS Sports and various advertising spots (AT&T; Pepsi-Complex).

Pepsi Globe

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max use all lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew has been renamed "Mtn Dew," and Diet Pepsi Max has been re-branded as Pepsi Max, because the original 1993 version is no longer available in the United States.

Pepsi Max

The star of the show, Samantha Morgan Nicholson, claimed that Pepsi Max took away her fear to go to the top of the Empire State Building.

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max all use lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew was renamed "Mtn Dew," and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max.

Pepsi Max 400

This was done despite ISC signing a contract with Coca-Cola to replace Pepsi as the official soft drink sponsor of its racetracks in 2008 (the contract is slowly being phased in).

Pepsi Refresh Project

Prior to Super Bowl XLIV, the National Football League website hosted a one-week Pepsi Refresh Project contest for ideas suggested by NFL players.

Pepsi Tate

In the summer of 2006 a series of videos appeared on YouTube depicting a fictional band called The Pepsi Tate Jazz Band.

Raymond Lauchengco

Lauchengco was part of the Pepsi New Generation artists which help launch several careers of other artists such as Keno, Gino Padilla, JoAnne Lorenzana, Timmy Cruz.

Tab Clear

In his 2011 book, Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, Stephen Denny published an interview with former Coca-Cola Chief Marketing Officer Sergio Zyman that stated the formation and subsequent failure of Tab Clear was a deliberate move to destroy Crystal Pepsi, capitalizing on the public's lack of understanding of Pepsi's heavily-marketed product.

Times of Grace

The band performed at the 2011 Download Festival on the Pepsi Max stage and the 2012 Soundwave Festival in Australia.

Track Entertainment

Track’s clients include Pepsi, Aquafina, Heineken, Lipton Brisk, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, T-Mobile.

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.