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10 unusual facts about PepsiCo


Alfred Steele

He worked for Pepsi until his death from a heart attack in April 1959.

Fleishman-Hillard

In August 2004, PR Week reported that the Chicago office of F-H were advising PepsiCo with a campaign to respond to concern about rising levels of obesity.

Florida's Natural Growers

By comparison, Simply Orange and Minute Maid are both owned by Coca-Cola, while Tropicana is owned by PepsiCo.

Juan Luis Guirado

Guirado worked as a quality control inspector for PepsiCo in Burgos, while playing for Racing Lermeño.

Michigan Challenge Balloonfest

Other sponsors include Waste Management, Inc, who provide all sanitation services for the weekend, MediLodge of Howell who sponsors the fireworks and hosts the VIP party for pilots and sponsors, PepsiCo as the beverage sponsor, and Howell Public Schools, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, and Citizens Insurance are also major contributors.

Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple

In Odyssey, Sculley describes his time as CEO of PepsiCo and Apple during the late 1970s and early 80s.

Paso de los Toros

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

Quaker Mill Company

After merging with three other companies in 1901, the company became the Quaker Oats Company, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo.

Strait-Jacket

The role of Lucy's doctor was played by vice-president of PepsiCo, Mitchell Cox, as Crawford was on the Board of Directors of the soft drink firm.

The Ninth Configuration

With no major film studio prepared to fund The Ninth Configuration, Blatty decided to raise the film's $4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $2 million.


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AmBev

As the largest PepsiCo bottler outside United States, it sells and distributes PepsiCo products in Brazil and other Latin American countries, includes Pepsi, Lipton Ice Tea and Gatorade by agreement of franchising.

Balance bar

Another factor accounting for the premium may have been that Kraft's purchase was part of a rush by large food manufacturers such as General Mills, PepsiCo and the Adolph Coors Company to snap up well-established natural foods companies such as Cascadian Farm, Mother's Oatmeal and Blue Moon Beer respectively.

Burns Philp

Following the sale of its yeast and spices business to UK firm Associated British Foods, Uncle Toby's to Nestle for NZ$1.1bn, Bluebird Foods to PepsiCo for NZ$245m, and its NZ$676m 20% stake in Goodman Fielder the company became largely a cashed up shell.

David K. Norton

From 1990 until 2000, he held positions with PepsiCo, Inc., including Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Frito-Lay North America from 1997 to 2000, and Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Pepsi Food Systems, from 1995 to 1996.

Dic Ann's Hamburgers

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

Fons Trompenaars

In 1989 together with Charles Hampden-Turner he founded and directed the consultancy firm Centre for International Business Studies, working for such companies as BP, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, Honeywell.

Frank Cooper

Frank Cooper III, business executive, global Chief Marketing Officer for PepsiCo, Inc.

Free Burma Coalition

Under the leadership of Zarni, then a graduate student at University of Wisconsin–Madison, it galvanized principally American students, attracted much media attention, and helped force over forty multinational corporations to withdraw from Burma, including ARCO, PepsiCo, and Texaco.

Gold Spot

Gold Spot was one of the three brands of carbonated soft drink started in India by Parle under the initiative of its founder Ramesh Chauhan in 1977 after the exit of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo from the Indian market.

Hartwall

The company also owns the license for manufacturing and selling PepsiCo's Pepsi, 7 Up and Mountain Dew brands in Finland.

Larry Thompson

In August 2003 Thompson left the Justice Department and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution for a year before accepting the position of senior vice-president for government affairs and general counsel at Pepsico in Purchase, New York.

Marie Callender's

One East Side Mario’s restaurant in Lakewood, California is also part of the chain, a remnant of the period (1997-2000) when the chain owned the ESM concept, purchased from Pepsico.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Movement marketing

Large companies applying this model currently include Mahindra, PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble.

Pepsi Blue

Although heavily promoted by PepsiCo, including advertisements by the pop singer Britney Spears and the bands Sev and Papa Roach, as well as in the movies The Italian Job and Garfield: The Movie, it is widely seen as a commercial flop as sales remained low.

Pori Brewery

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

Prince Eze Madumere

Madumere worked as Area Manager of Channel Development in KFC and PepsiCo Inc in the United States for thirteen years.

RapidMiner

RapidMiner has received over 3 million total downloads and has over 200,000 users including eBay, Intel, PepsiCo and Kraft Foods as paying customers.

Roberto Goizueta

Goizueta was famous for his business rivalry with fellow businessman Roger Enrico, CEO of PepsiCo.

Scott Goodson

During his career, he has worked for major brands such as PepsiCo, Google, Heineken, P&G, Starbucks, Smart Car, Scion, Emirates, Frito-Lay, Jim Beam and Wal-Mart's Sam's Club.

Shirur, Maharashtra

Many manufactures have set up facilities here, among them Apollo Tyres; Whirlpool India, making refrigerators; LG Electronics, making televisions and mobile handsets; Daewoo Electronics, making refrigerators; Wheels India; Bajaj Electricals; Frito-Lay of Pepsico Holdings, manufacturing Lays potato chips; Fiat automobiles; Kirloskar; Swarovski; and Ohsung, a Korean company manufacturing electronics parts.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius have worked with household brands including Pepsico, BOC, Three, Sony Ericsson, Axa and Specsavers.

Steve Barnhart

Prior to joining Orbitz, Barnhart held various finance positions over a 13-year period with PepsiCo and its Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay subsidiaries and affiliated companies.

Steven Reinemund

In 1984, Reinemund joined PepsiCo’s Pizza Hut division (subsequently divested) as the Senior Vice President of Operations.

Susquehanna International Group

SIG is a specialist or DPM (designated primary market maker) in approximately 600 equity options and 45 index options on the CBOE, AMEX, PHLX, and ISE, including big name equities such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, GE, PepsiCo, and Microsoft and indices such as Nasdaq and Russell 2000 options.

The Smith's Snackfood Company

Subsequently Pepsico withdrew the brand, in favour of popular British brand Walkers, which had been heavily marketed in a campaign using ex-footballer turned television presenter Gary Lineker.

Victor Dzau

Dr. Dzau is also a director of Genzyme Corporation, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. Dr. Dzau was elected to PepsiCo's Board in 2005.

Zaghadia

Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation has developed a mega industrial Estate in Jhagadia,Where Companies Like Saint-Gobain, Pepsico, United Phosperous, Kohler, S. Kumar, Birla Century, Gulbrandson,BEC Fertilizers Limited,