16 Mar PepsiCo: Good for you, not for shareholders
The Cola War continues. As Pepsi struggles to regain market share, Indra Nooyi’s job is on the line...
14 Feb The mystery monk making billions with 5-Hour Energy shots
5-Hour Energy, the 60ml caffeine and vitamin elixir that purports to keep you alert without crashing. In eight years 5-Hour has gone from nowhere to $1-billion in retail sales. Truckers swear by it. So do the traders in Oliver Stone’s 2010 sequel to Wall Street....
03 Feb Three new billion-dollar brands for PepsiCo
PepsiCo has announced that Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages have each grown to more than $1-billion in annual retail sales, expanding PepsiCo's portfolio of billion-dollar brands to 22. PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands.
...05 Jan The global milk boom
A thirst for milk, bred largely by the expanding middle classes in the developing world, has sent demand rocketing and prices soaring, according to a report in The New York Times. Along with zippy cars and flat-panel TVs, milk is the mark of new money,...