15 things you didn't know about pepsico

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15 Things You Didn’t Know About PepsiCo

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15 Things You Didn’t Know About PepsiCo

Size matters

• Consumers devour Pepsi’s products over one billion times a day in more than 200 countries around the world

1. PepsiCo is the largest food and beverage company in North America.

Humble beginnings

• Caleb Bradham, a New Bern, N.C. pharmacist created the Pepsi-Cola company in the late 1890’s

2. The Pepsi-Cola company was founded by a pharmacist.

What’s in a name?

• Bradham considered Pepsi to be a healthy drink that aided in digestion

• He named it after the word dyspepsia, which means indigestion

3. Pepsi’s name comes from the word dyspepsia.

Pioneering new sales methods

• Pepsi-Cola made history as first company to modernize delivery of its beverages from horse-drawn carriages to motor vehicles

4. Pepsi began vehicle-delivery of its soda in 1908.

The marriage of Pepsi & Frito-Lay

• Today, PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division rakes in more than $14 billion in annual sales thanks to popular brands like Doritos and Lay’s chips

5. Pepsi merged with Frito-Lay in 1965

Another historical first

• In 1971, Pepsi became the first American consumer product to be made and sold in the former Soviet Union

6. PepsiCo breaks international barriers.

Pioneering healthier cola

• The company unveils Pepsi Light that year with lemon flavoring as an alternative to diet colas

7. Pepsi becomes top cola drink in supermarkets in 1974.

Acquisitions that count

• Tropicana is now the number one orange juice brand in the U.S.

• Tropicana generates over $1 billion in annual sales for PepsiCo

8. Pepsi acquired Tropicana in 1998, its biggest purchase in the company’s history at the time

Growth fueled by R&D

• Pepsi’s largest R&D center outside of the U.S. is in China

• Pepsi employs PhD’s and scientists at its research centers around the world today

9. Pepsi has dozens of state-of-the-art R&D centers around the world.

An ever-evolving product line-up

• Pepsi boasted 10 of the top 50 new food and beverage products introduced in North America last year by sales

10. Product innovation is at the core of Pepsi’s success.

Money making branding

• Pepsi has grown its number of billion-dollar brands by as much as 30% since 2006

11. Over 40 of Pepsi’s brands pull in between $250 million to $1 billion annually.

Product innovation

• Product innovation accounted for more than 9% of net revenue last year, up from 7% in 2012

12. Innovation is driving sales growth

A market leader

• PepsiCo contributed more to retail sales growth in the U.S. last year than the next 27 largest food and beverage manufacturers combined

13. Pepsi generated $1 billion in retail sales growth in 2014.

Cutting-edge science labs

• Pepsi conducts “sweat tests” at its Gatorade Sports Science Institute to determine how much fluid athletes lose during competition

14. Pepsi runs tests on athletes to improve its Gatorade brand.

A worthy investment

• If you had invested $100 in PepsiCo stock in 1965, it would have been worth as much as $43,000 at the end of 2014

15. Pepsi has been rewarding shareholders for decades.