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Background of PepsiCo

  • PepsiCo, Inc. is a United States-based multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation, which is based in Harrison, New York.
  • PepsiCo, Inc.’s portfolio consists of all aspects of the food and beverage market. PepsiCo, Inc. oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of all its products.
  • PepsiCo, Inc. traces its history back to 1898, with the company officially established in 1965 when the Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito-Lay, Inc. and PepsiCo, Inc. has since expanded from its namesake product namely Pepsi Cola, to a more diversified portfolio of food and beverage brands.
  • Pepsi is a soft drink which was developed by Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist and businessman from North Carolina. He coined the name “Pepsi-Cola” in 1898 while he marketed it from his pharmacy in North Carolina.
  • The Pepsi-Cola drink gained popularity and the Pepsi-Cola Company was established in 1902. Bradham registered a patent for his recipe in 1903 with the company incorporated in Delaware in 1919.
  • Leading up to World War I, Bradham’s company experienced years of success but as result of sugar rationing during the war and a volatile sugar market in its aftermath, the company’s financial health was damaged to such an extent that in 1923, Bradham declared bankruptcy and he returned to running pharmacies in North Carolina.
  • In 1923, the company trademark as well as the secret recipe was purchased by Craven Holding Corporation and in 1931, the Pepsi trademark along with the business and goodwill from Craven Holding in association with Charles Guth was purchased by Roy Megargel, a Wall Street broker.
  • At the time, Guth was the president of Loft, Incorporated which was a leading candy manufacturer in Long island City, New York. Loft ran a network consisting of 115 stores at the time that Guth made the acquisition and used the labs and chemists of Loft to reformulate the Pepsi syrup recipe.
  • Guth used his position as the president of the company to replace Coca-Cola with Pepsi Cola at all his shops and restaurants.
  • During the 1960s, the Pepsi-Cola product lines expanded when Diet Pepsi was created alongside the purchase of Mountain Dew.
  • In 1965 the Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito-Lay, Inc. and subsequently became PepsiCo, Inc.
  • PepsiCo made a $7 billion (102 billion ZAR) offer to purchase two of the largest bottlers namely Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas in 2009. This purchase was completed in 2010, resulting in the new owned subsidiary Pepsi Beverages Company.
  • In 2011, PepsiCo, Inc. made its largest international purchase when it acquired two-thirds stake in Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods, a Russian food company which produces milk, yogurt, fruit juice, and other dairy products.
  • After trading on the New York Stock Exchange for 39 years, PepsiCo, Inc. moved its shares to Nasdaq in December 2017.
  • In 2018, PepsiCo, Inc. announced the purchase of Bare Foods followed by an acquisition of SodaStream within the same year.
  • Today, PepsiCo, Inc. has more than 267,000 employees spread across its several divisions.

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  • During the late-1970s and mid 1990s PepsiCo, Inc saw the successful purchase of businesses which were outside its main scope of operation. However, it exited these non-core businesses in 1997 where some were sold and others were spun-off into a new company called Tricon Global Restaurants, later becoming Yum! Brands, Inc.
  • PepsiCo, Inc. has also owned several others brands which were later sold so that the focus could remain on its primary snack food and beverage lines. Brands which were previously owned by PepsiCo, Inc. include Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, Hot ‘n Now, and several others.
  • Divestments which concluded in 1997 were followed by numerous large-scale acquisitions with PepsiCo, Inc. extending operations beyond soft drinks and snack foods into several other lines of foods and beverages.
  • PepsiCo saw a successful purchase of Tropicana Products in 1998 followed by a merger with Quaker Oats Company in 2001, adding the Gatorade sports line as well as other Quaker Oats brands to its extensive portfolio of products.
  • In 2025, PepsiCo, Inc. announced that it would attempt to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, as a plan to fight global warming.
  • The Coca-Cola Company is the primary competitor of PepsiCo, Inc. in the beverage market and in 2005, PepsiCo, Inc. surpassed its competitor in market value for the first time in 12 years.
  • As of 2025, PepsiCo, Inc. owns 23 brands which have over $1 billion (14.6 billion ZAR) in sales.
  • Today, PepsiCo, Inc. has operations spread across the globe, with products distributed across more than 200 countries, resulting in billions in revenue annually.
  • According to profit, revenue, and market capitalisation, PepsiCo, Inc. is the second largest food and beverages company in the world, behind Nestlé.
  • The flagship product of PepsiCo, Inc. namely Pepsi Cola, has been engaged in several rivalries with Coca-Cola products, commonly known as the Soda Wars. Even though Coca-Cola outsells Pepsi Cola in the United States, PepsiCo, Inc. is the largest food and beverage company by net revenue in the North American Market.
  • Despite criticism that PepsiCo, Inc. has received from environmentalists regarding its negative environmental impacts of agriculture, PepsiCo, Inc. has made public comments regarding its commitment to minimising their impact.
  • Today, PepsiCo, Inc. is spread across several business divisions which consist of PepsiCo Beverages North America, Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods North America, Latin America, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and North Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

PepsiCo Investor Tip

  • PepsiCo, Inc. trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol PEP. PepsiCo, Inc. forms part of Nasdaq-100, S&P 100, and the S&P 500
  • An analysis on the market performance for the second quarter of 2025 indicated that PepsiCo, Inc.’s net revenue growth increased by 20.5%, while the earnings per share (EPS) experienced a 44% change.
  • Data from the analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares and in turn dividends remain unaffected, which provides shareholders with assurance that they will have a strong buy-in on NASDAQ.
  • PepsiCo, Inc. paid dividends of $5.8 billion (85 billion ZAR) and there were share repurchases valued at $106 million (1.5 billion ZAR).
  • PepsiCo, Inc. announced an expansion and extension of its 2019 Productivity Plan to the end of 2026. This reflects initiatives to leverage new technologies as well as business models to automate, simplify, and harmonise processes.
  • With the extension of the plan, it will also re-engineer the go-to-market as well as information systems of PepsiCo, Inc. and will include the correct automation for each market.
  • In connection with efforts towards this plan, PepsiCo, Inc. expects to incur pre-tax charges of $3.15 billion (46.2 billion ZAR) which includes cash expenditures of around $2.4 billion (35.2 billion ZAR).
  • Despite controversies and competition with other brands, PepsiCo, Inc. is still a popular investment choice for many investors, with lucrative dividends anticipated for the remaining quarters of the year.

Sector

Consumer Defensive

Industry

Beverages-Non-Alcoholic

Sub industry

Beverages, Food Processing

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