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...Among big cap US stocks yesterday, some of the largest losers were snack and sweet drinks giants such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kraft-Heinz....
...Here, Casa-Fábrica, as it is called, houses factory production, an R&D lab, bottling and packaging facilities, as well as a Matrix-like automated warehouse and distribution hub....
...You can experiment with being like Indra Nooyi when she ran Pepsi, or Ariel Investment’s Mellody Hobson or Apple’s Tim Cook, by getting up at 4am....
...Daystar has raised $92mn in funding since its inception in 2017, including a $20mn facility from the Washington-based International Finance Corp last year....
...Coke said it was “suspending its business” in Russia shortly before Pepsi, the beverages and snacks group, announced it would suspend the production and sale of drinks brands including Pepsi while maintaining...
...Coca-Cola, which makes the latter two drinks, and Pepsi both suspended operations in Russia in March....
...So we want to put on the app a way that they can start ordering that Coca-Cola, or Pepsi or crackers, and then we can start disrupting this whole industry, cutting out the middleman....
...The tanks and barrels have specific bottling schedules, and any altering to that can impact how a winery does business,” he said. The shortages are taking a toll on profits....
...Sugar-free Pepsi Max’s 42 per cent market share is more than double what it has in European markets. Lower prices for Pepsi Max are one reason....
...But, says Steve Rendle, chief executive of VF Corp, which owns the outdoor clothing brand, Xinjiang has also become a “big driver of energy” for Chinese consumers....
...Rival PepsiCo aims to achieve net zero by 2050, and also said this week it would use entirely recycled plastic for bottling the Pepsi brand in nine European markets by 2022....
...Nelson Peltz has made a name for himself by locking horns with some of the biggest companies in the US, including Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, General Electric and DuPont....
With advertising budgets under pressure during the pandemic, it is tempting to be cynical
...The maker of Pepsi and Lays potato chips secured $6.5bn on Tuesday in the second-largest bond offering, with 30-year debt sold to investors at a spread of 200 basis points and a yield of 3.65 per cent....
...It is 15 years since France declared yoghurt a natural security issue when it thwarted Pepsi’s takeover interest in Danone....
...We have an excellent corps of human rights lawyers who have been on the go, really, since 2011, and before....
...It was famously an acquisition target for Pepsi in 2005, until the French government declared Danone a national strategic asset....
...It will gain access to Coca-Cola’s bottling system as part of the deal, allowing it to increase production....
...Top holdings in the former include Toyota and Sony, while the latter includes Kao Corp and Recruit Holdings....
...Product portfolio decisions aside, Coke and Pepsi have gone back and forth over the years on whether they want to be in the business of bottling and delivering soda....
...Coke has become remote even from retailers by disposing of its bottling operations to independents....
...That compares with Coke at 48 per cent and Pepsi at 19 per cent, according to Euromonitor data....
...By buying Dr Pepper, JAB is acquiring a bottling and sales network that could be used to distribute various kinds of beverages....
...(State Street and Pepsi are already on the list.) Bill Gross seems to be angling for a spot in his latest investment outlook....
...the FT's latest On Wall Street column: The US's biggest cash hoarders are notably absent from the list of companies sending more cash to shareholders because of the new tax law (which includes Visa, Pepsi...
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