Deception with Purpose: Pepsico’s Water Claims in India By India Resource Center and Community Resource Centre November 30‚ 2011 Pepsico‚ one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world‚ has begun claiming that it has achieved "positive water balance" in India‚ that it is "Giving Back MORE WATER Than We Take". Wonderful as it may sound‚ Pepsico’s claims of achieving "positive water balance" simply do not add up. The India Resource Center approached Pepsico in 2010 to question them
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Soft drinks in India is a INR 11‚000 Crore industry1. The rising mercury levels have ensured that the Indian soft drinks industry is going through a healthy phase wherein‚ it registered an impressive growth of 24.6% in the year 2011/12. Carbonates had a growth of 13.6% growth‚ Bottled water saw an incredible 34.3% growth‚ Fruits and vegetable juices registered a growth of 29.7%‚ Sports and energy drinks saw a growth of 17.2%. PepsiCo operates in these product lines and the impressive growth numbers
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Purpose The purpose of this project was to enable the new student of accounting to familiarize and improve his understanding of the contents of a publicly held company’s (the Coca Cola company) annual report‚ SEC Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) as well as the proxy statement. Scope We were instructed to access the Coca Cola company’s website investor section and to review the SEC filings located there‚ namely the 10-K and DEF 14A forms. Upon review of those
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Issue 14‚ p1-90‚ 2p Document Type: Article Subject Terms: PRODUCT launches MARKETING strategy NEW product development PEPSICO Inc. -- Marketing SOFT drinks -- Marketing COLA drinks Abstract: The article considers the product launch of the Pepsi Next brand soft drink by beverage industry firm PepsiCo scheduled for the summer of 2011. The soft drink is a so-called mid-calorie soft drink sweetened with a blend of high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweetener. The launch is considered in
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Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Type Flavored Cola Manufacturer PepsiCo‚ Inc. Country of origin United States Introduced mid-2002 Discontinued 2004 (Canadian markets) Related products Crystal Pepsi‚ New Coke Pepsi blue‚ launched in mid-2002 and discontinued in 2004‚ was the result of taste-testing over 100 flavors over a 9-month period. Designed to compete with Coca-Cola’s Vanilla Coke‚ it is considered by some to be the company’s second equivalent of New Coke‚ after the much maligned Crystal
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competitive strategies of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been examined‚ and even though they are different‚ both seemed to have been successful to become the first and second companies in the soft drink industry. Coca-Cola with effective advertising‚ and Pepsi with effective young generation market target‚ have developed their marketing strategies and began to modify their pricing‚ bottling and brand strategies. Both companies entered international markets‚ however Coca-Cola were more effective and lead
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instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time’. Mc Luhan has only described one aspect of how the world has become a global village. A closer examination of globalisation will indicate that indeed the barriers of space‚ time and borders which once existed have now disappeared or are disappearing. Globalization has been described as the rapid increase in cross-border economic‚ social‚ technological exchange under conditions of capitalism‚ which also
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5. How attractive to PepsiCo is the proposal to buy 30% of Deltex for 1.1B pesos (US$360M)? Based on the information in the case‚ Pepsi could invest US$360 million in exchange for 30% equity of Deltex. So we have to calculate the value of 30% equity of Deltex. First‚ we calculated the discount factor by using average unlevered beta of US independent bottlers‚ US 10 year Treasury bond as risk free rate and assuming market risk premium 10%. We came up with 9.83% of WACC. Next‚ we calculated Deltex
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PepsiCo‚ Incorporated is one of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world. It got its start as the Pepsi Cola Company in 1898 when a pharmacist from Chinquapin‚ North Carolina. A pharmacist named Caleb Bradham invented the Pepsi Cola soft drink. The soft drink was originally named “Brad’s Drink” but was later renamed “Pepsi-Cola” combining the terms “pepsin” and “cola.” Along with selling the soda concoction the many soda fountains‚ Bradham also bottled and sold the drink in his own stores.
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COMPANY BACKGROUND Pepsi is Pvt. Limited Company. It is a franchise of Pepsi cola international. It first came to Pakistan in 1960‚ but they did not do well at that time. So they packed off and went back. In 1969‚ Pepsi came back but still their appearance was not satisfactory in the market so they approached Pakistan beverages to take the franchise for Pepsi. And from that day onwards it took Pakistan beverages a period of 5 years to knock down coke from the No.1 position and in 1985 they
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