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As India’s largest food and beverage business, PepsiCo India offers consumers a wide-ranging portfolio of enjoyable and wholesome products.

Key Facts

Indian headquarters: Gurgaon, Haryana

Position: 3rd largest consumer Products Company in India

Employment opportunities: Directly and indirectly employs about 150,000 people

Facilities:

• 36 bottling plants (13 company-owned; 23 franchisee-owned)
• 3 food plants

Chairman & CEO: Manu Anand

Company History

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 and 3 state-of-the-art food plants. 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.

Commitment to Sustainable Growth

PepsiCo India’s employees are driven by the company’s global commitment to sustainable growth, Performance with Purpose (PWP), which works on four planks: replenishing water, partnering with farmers, converting waste to wealth and nurturing 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 Click Here.

Brand Facts

PepsiCo nourishes consumers with a range of products from tasty treats to healthy eats that deliver enjoyment, nutrition, convenience as well as affordability. Our brands stand for quality and are respected household names.

Beverages

PepsiCo India’s expansive beverage portfolio includes:

• Iconic refreshment beverages: Pepsi, 7UP, Nimbooz, Mirinda, Mountain Dew,
• Low-calorie options: Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max
• Hydrating and nutritional beverages: Aquafina (drinking water), Gatorade (isotonic sports drink)
• Fruit juices: Tropicana100%
• Juice-based drinks: Tropicana Nectars, Tropicana Twister, Slice
• Local brands: Lehar Evervess Soda, Dukes Lemonade, Mangola

Foods

PepsiCo’s food division, Frito-Lay, is the leader in the branded salty snack market. All Frito-Lay products are free of trans-fat and MSG. Frito-Lay’s core products are:

• Lay's potato chips
• Kurkure
• Kurkure Desi Beats
• Uncle Chipps
• Cheetos extruded snacks (including Cheetos Whoosh made of whole grain and vegetables)

Other products:

• Quaker Oats (high-fibre breakfast cereal)
• Traditional snacks under the Kurkure and Lehar brands
• Low fat and roasted snack options

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines that generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales each. Our main businesses -- Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola -- also make hundreds of other enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo’s people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, which we believe also means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo’s promise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages for local tastes; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment, including by conserving energy and water usage, and reducing packaging volume; to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, support, and invest in the local communities where we operate. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com. Follow PepsiCo:

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