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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....
...At a Fortune event earlier this week, Pepsi chief executive Ramon Laguarta touted the company’s commitment to reducing plastic waste....
...“Diet cola drinkers in the US told us they wanted aspartame-free Diet Pepsi and we’re delivering,” said Seth Kaufman, senior vice-president of the company’s Pepsi and flavours portfolio at the time....
...The film climaxes when Jenner moves toward a line of policemen and offers one a can of Pepsi. Most criticism pointed to the thoughtless co-opting of the BLM movement....
...Byju’s and Dream11 outspent such global powerhouses as Procter & Gamble, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé....
...Of these, seven were classic defensives (Merck, AbbVie, Pepsi, Raytheon, UnitedHealth, Walmart, and Coca-Cola). Unhedged has been writing about this pattern a lot for almost a year and a half now....
...Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey said consumers were not yet cutting back on purchases of the company’s products, but added: “A typically recessionary pattern . . . would be consumers initially stop...
...Annual sales of nearly $45bn puts Mars ahead of Coca-Cola and makes it one of the biggest privately owned businesses in the world, with more than 140,000 employees in 80 countries....
...The company had previously guided to organic revenue growth of 6 per cent....
...Pepsi’s chief executive Ramon Laguarta noted in an email to staff that Pepsi-Cola had entered the Russian market at the height of the cold war, saying it had “helped create common ground between the United...
...Jim Andrew, chief sustainability officer at PepsiCo, said the company was pushing ahead with goals including moving “key Pepsi-branded products” in 11 European markets to 100 per cent recycled plastic this...
...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....
...Limited cost savings and the apparent blessing of key shareholder The Coca-Cola Company make any counter offer unlikely. Operating margins were about 13 per cent at both groups in 2019....
...The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9 per cent, while the Russell 2000 index of small-cap companies advanced 1.8 per cent....
...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....
...(Patrick Temple-West) PepsiCo’s new challenge involves a lot of chickpeas, and some questions Any company known for cola and potato chips is never going to have an easy time selling itself as sustainable...
...The group, which makes Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana fruit juice and its namesake fizzy beverage, reported a 5.5 per cent year-on-year increase in fourth-quarter organic sales of Pepsi sodas and other...
...Owning Rockstar outright would allow PepsiCo to sidestep the kind of legal issues that have afflicted Coca-Cola. They wrangled with partner Monster over plans for a Coke-branded energy drink....
...For a company that makes its living selling offbeat products such as Jacked Ranch Dipped Hot Wing Doritos and vanilla-flavoured coffee-infused cola, PepsiCo’s earnings reports can be a surprisingly dry and...
...The company’s rival Coca-Cola, which almost exclusively sells beverages and not food, said last week that sales volumes had dropped by a quarter so far this month....
...That was the year he paid $12bn for the US assets of Coca-Cola Enterprises, its largest bottling partner, shaking up a century-old relationship that had separated the brand from the bottling franchisees...
...The New York-based company covered the host city of Atlanta with billboards during the championship that played up its rivalry with Coca-Cola, which is based in the city....
...developments to 18 Coca-Cola bottling plants....
...Pepsi’s tempered profit forecast came a day after arch-rival Coca-Cola warned of slowing sales growth this year, prompting its biggest one-day share price fall in a decade....
...Revenues for the quarter are expected to dip 6 per cent at Coke from a year ago, and to be flat at Pepsi, which also has a large food business. The profits of both companies are looking stronger....
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