PepsiCo spreads cheer this Diwali with Exciting Gift Packs!

Introduces ‘Shubh Laabh’ - Innovative gift options at affordable prices

Delhi, October 29, 2010: PepsiCo India, the country’s leading food & beverage company, is all set to spread cheer this festive season with a range of attractively designed gift packs. With innovative gifting options for popular brands such as Pepsi, Slice, Tropicana, Tropicana 100%, Mirinda and Mountain Dew, consumers can look at gifting loved ones a taste of their favourite PepsiCo brand this festive season.

PepsiCo festive gift packs are sure to be a popular choice, thanks to their eye catching designs, convenient pack sizes and affordable price points. Ranging from Rs 80 to Rs 320, the festive packs consist of excellent combinations of various popular beverage brands.

These festive packs are available at leading retail outlets in Delhi & NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu, UP and Mumbai.

About PepsiCo India

PepsiCo entered India in 1989 and has grown to become the country’s largest food and beverage business. One of the largest multinational investors in the country with an investment of over $1 billion, PepsiCo India has built an expansive beverage and snack food business supported by 36 beverage bottling plants, (13 company & 23 franchisee owned) and 3 food plants. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing plants produce a range of products from treats to healthy eats that deliver joy as well as nutrition to the consumers. PepsiCo India’s extensive portfolio includes iconic brands like Pepsi, Lay’s, Kurkure, Tropicana 100%, Gatorade, Quaker and young but immensely popular and fast growing brands such as Nimbooz and Aliva.

PepsiCo India's employees are driven by the company’s global commitment to sustainable growth, Performance with Purpose (PWP), which works on four planks of replenishing water, partnering with farmers, waste to wealth and healthy kids. In 2009, PepsiCo India achieved a significant milestone, by becoming the first business in the PepsiCo global system to achieve ‘Positive Water Balance’ (PWB), a fact validated by Deloitte Consulting. For more details on PWB and PWP, please visit http://www.pepsiindia.co.in/CSR/replenishingwater.aspx

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines that each generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. Our main businesses - Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade - also make hundreds of other nourishing, tasty foods and drinks that bring joy to our consumers in more than 200 countries. With annualized revenues of nearly $60 billion, PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth, called Performance with Purpose. By dedicating ourselves to offering a broad array of choices for healthy, convenient and fun nourishment, reducing our environmental impact, and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, PepsiCo balances strong financial returns with giving back to our communities worldwide. In recognition of its continued sustainability efforts, PepsiCo was named for the third time to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and for the fourth time to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America) in 2009. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com

For further details, please contact

Ashutosh Sharma/ Pradeep Wadhwa
PepsiCo India
Mob:+91 9818763772/9810266667
Email:ashutosh.sharma@pepsico.com/
pradeep.wadhwa@pepsico.com

Divya Bakhshi / Debapriya Bhattacharya
Genesis Burson-Marstellers
Mob: +91 9899888643 / 9711209880
Email:Divya.bakhshi@bm.com/
d.bhattacharya@bm.com