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PepsiCo

PepsiCo

Head office: USA

PepsiCo consists of Frito-Lay North America, PepsiCo Beverages North America, PepsiCo International and Quaker Foods North America. PepsiCo brands are available in nearly 200 countries and territories and generate sales at the retail level of about $92 billion.

Some of PepsiCo's brand names are more than 100-years-old, but the corporation is relatively young. PepsiCo was founded in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Tropicana was acquired in 1998 and PepsiCo merged with The Quaker Oats Company, including Gatorade, in 2001. The company employs 198,000 people. The sales of PepsiCo reached US $ 35.1 (EUR 26.6) billion in 2006.

The company’s Frito-Lay North America division manufactures, markets, sells, and distributes branded snacks, including Lay's potato chips, Doritos tortilla chips, Tostitos tortilla chips, Cheetos cheese flavoured snacks, Fritos corn chips, Ruffles potato chips, Quaker Chewy granola bars, SunChips multigrain snacks, Rold Gold pretzels, Santitas tortilla chips, Frito-Lay nuts, Grandma's cookies, Munchies snack mix, Gamesa cookies, Lay's Stax potato crisps, Funyuns onion flavored rings, Quaker Quakes corn and rice snacks, Miss Vickie's potato chips, branded crackers, Quaker snack mix, Smartfood popcorn, Chester's fries, Stacy's pita chips, and Quaker Fruit and Oatmeal bars. PepsiCo Beverages North America division manufactures or uses contract manufacturers, markets, and sells beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Tropicana Pure Premium, Lipton, Sierra Mist, Tropicana juice drinks, Propel, Dole, and SoBe brands.

It also offers ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and water products through joint ventures with Unilever and Starbucks, as well as licenses the Aquafina water brand to its bottlers. PepsiCo International division offers various salty and sweet snack brands, including Lay's, Walkers, Cheetos, Doritos, Ruffles, Gamesa, and Sabritas; various Quaker brand snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the brands Pepsi, 7UP, Mirinda, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Mountain Dew. Quaker Foods North America division provides cereals, rice, pasta, and other branded products, which include Quaker oatmeal, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups,

Cap'n Crunch cereal, Quaker grits, Life cereal, Rice-A-Roni, Pasta Roni, and Near East side dishes. The company distributes its products through direct-store-delivery, broker-warehouse, and food service and vending distribution networks. PepsiCo was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Net Profit Margin (ttm)  16.48%
 
Operating Margin (ttm)   18.54%

Website: www.pepsico.com

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