PepsiCo Inc
PepsiCo is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation, headquartered in New York. PepsiCo has interests in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products.
Climate Policy Rating:[1] InfluenceMap C
PepsiCo appear to have fairly limited but largely positive engagement with climate change legislation. However, in 2013 they supported the exploitation of the Albertan Tar Sands. PepsiCo is also a member of the Business Roundtable and the US Chamber of Commerce, which lobby against climate legislation.
Top 10 Plastic Polluters:[2] #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Corporate Political Engagement Rating:[3] Transparency International B
Tax Policy
PepsiCo maintains 133 subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, holding $44.9bn offshore for tax purposes.ref
Brands
Pepsi
- Pepsi
, http://www.pepsi.com/, https://www.pepsi.com/en-us/, Mini-History, Coke Ads, Coke Wars, Cola Wars
- Info links: Bottling plans, aspartame vs. sucralose vs. acesulfame potassium, Sodastream, Pepsi's dark secret (foetal cells), Foetal cells, the facts, search re cells, acquisitions search
Frito-Lay Inc
The primary snack food brands and products include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips, Lay's potato chips, Ruffles chips, Sun chips, and Walker's potato crisps (distributed in the UK and Ireland under the Walker's brand, and in the rest of Europe under the Lay's brand). Frito-Lay has multiple other non-chip brands, including Rold Gold pretzels, Cracker Jack popcorn snacks, TrueNorth nut clusters and nut crisps, Grandma's Cookies, FunYuns onion-flavoured rings, Nut Harvest Munchies, El Isleno plantain chips, Chester's corn and potato chips, Baken-ets fried pork skins.
Walkers Snacks Ltd
- Walkers (snack foods)
, http://www.walkers.co.uk/, Timeline
- Walkers Snacks Ltd (CH)
- Logo pics: A, B, C, D, E, F
Walkers is the UK's leading manufacturer of crisps. Every day about 11m people bite into one of the company's products. Key brands include Quavers, Monster Munch, Dippas, Wotsits, and Sensations. ref Walkers on Sustainability: "We're trying. Honest." Walkers on Recycling: "We're trying. Honest." ref
Walkers Crisps produces 7,000+ non-recyclable crisp packets every minute, of every day, of every week, of ... etc. 38 Degrees
- Dec.10.2018: Walkers to recycle crisp packets after postal protest. Snack maker will install collection points across UK as well as a free courier service. Matthew Weaver, The Guardian.
- Oct.05.2018: Walkers answers critics with launch of UK crisp packet recycling plan. Manufacturer to collect and repurpose packaging after campaign against firm’s waste. Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian.
- Aug.05.2018: Crunch time for Walkers over non-recyclable crisp packets. A 38 Degrees petition calls on the snacks firm to end use of plastic in the 11 million packets a day produced at its Leicester factory. Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian.
Tropicana Products Inc
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Quaker Oats Company

Major brands include: Quaker Oats, Aunt Jemina, Gatorade, Scotts Porage Oats.
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Aunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima is a brand of pancake mixes, pancake syrups, corn meal mixes, and other breakfast foods.
Pinnacle Foods Inc uses the "Aunt Jemima" brand for its frozen breakfast food products in the USA, under license from Quaker Oats.
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Gatorade Company Inc
Gatorade is an American brand of sports-themed beverage and food products, centred around the concept of "sports drinks".
Gatorade's Thirst Quencher is manufactured by PepsiCo from water, sugar, salt, monopotassium phosphate (also used in fertilisers and fungicides), plus colouring and flavouring additives. It is distributed in 80+ countries.ref website
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Sources: Gatorade
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Scotts Porage Oats
Scott's Porage Oats is a Scottish breakfast food, made from 100% rolled oats and nothing else - although the company has branched out into "Easy Pots", which contain dried milk and sugar.
Scott's is sold worldwide, packaged in a cardboard box with no metal or plastic attachments, thus making it 100% recyclable. website
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Sources: Our Heritage. Scott's Porage. Accessed Nov.06.2018.
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Joint Ventures
- ?date? Joint venture with Smith's in Australia
- ?date?: Joint venture with Sabritas and Gamesa in Mexico.
Timeline
2010 | Frito-Lay reformulated Lay's Kettle and Lay's flavored chips into a new variant labeled as being made with all-natural ingredients. |
2005 | Stacy's Pita Chip Company acquired by Frito-Lay North America. |
2003 | Frito-Lay introduced the first products in its "Natural" line, made with organic ingredients: Organic Blue Corn Tostitos, Natural Lay's Potato Chips (seasoned with sea salt), and Natural Cheetos White Cheddar Puffs. |
2001 | Quaker Oats Company merged with PepsiCo. Quaker snacks products, including Chewy granola bars, Gatorade, and Quaker rice cakes, becoming organized under the Frito-Lay North America operating division. |
Apr.2000 | Frito-Lay asked its farmers not to grow GM potatoes.[41] However, PepsiCo does use GMO ingredients in countries where regulations allow it. |
Late 1999 | Frito-Lay asked its suppliers not to use GM corn in response to lobbying efforts. |
1998 | Acquired Savoy Brands (Latin America). |
1998 | Acquired Smith's Snackfood Company (Australia) |
1997 | Cracker Jack, candied popcorn snack, acquired by Frito-Lay. |
1997 | Quavers acquired by Walkers.ref Quavers![]() |
1995 | Monster Munch brand taken over by Walkers. |
1993 | Walkers and Smiths merged. |
1991 | Sun Chips, a multi-grain chip. |
1989 | Walkers and Smith's acquired by Frito-Lay. |
Jan.1989 | Smartfood, a brand of cheese-flavored popcorn, acquired by Frito-Lay. Smartfoods Inc website |
Early 1980s | Joint-venture with Walkers, a UK chip and snack manufacturing company. |
1980 | Grandma's Cookies acquired by Frito-Lay. |
Jan.1978 | Tostitos: development of a Mexican-style tortilla chip completed by Frito-Lay. |
1971 | Munchos introduced. |
1969 | Funyuns introduced by Frito-Lay. |
Jun.1965 | PepsiCo Inc: Frito-Lay merged with the Pepsi-Cola Company. |
1964 | Doritos first produced by Frito-Lay. |
Sept.1961 | Frito-Lay Inc: H.W. Lay & Company merged with The Frito Company. Frito-Lay![]() |
1950s | Richmond Potato Chip Company and the Capitol Frito Corporation acquired by Herman Lay. |
1948 | Cheetos invented by Charles Doolin. |
1948 | Walkers founded in England. |
1945 | Lay's and the Frito Company worked together towards national distribution. |
1944 | Name change to "the Lay's Lay Lingo Company". |
1938 | Herman Lay acquired part of the Barrett Food Company's business, renaming it H.W. Lay Lingo & Company. |
1932 | The Frito Company Charles Doolin started a snack food operation in his mother's kitchen, in Ohio. |
1931 | Herman Lay sold potato chips out of his car. |
Articles
- See the IUF's page here, http://www.iuf.org/show.php?lang=en&tid=86
- Oct.07.2018: Crisp firm pledges to recycle packets. Walkers says it will recycle crisp packets posted back to the company by turning them into plant pots and benches. Last month, Royal Mail asked eco-activists to end the protest in which they returned bags to the crisp maker minus envelopes. The Times.
- Oct.05.2018: Walkers answers critics with launch of UK crisp packet recycling plan. Produces 7,000+ non-recyclable crisp packets every minute. Manufacturer to collect and repurpose packaging after campaign against firm’s waste. Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian.
- Aug.20.2018: Pepsi to buy SodaStream for $3.2bn in shift to health-conscious drinks. Pepsi said the transaction, expected to close by Jan.2019, is another step in bid to promote wellness. Pepsi will buy the Israel-based household drink-machine maker SodaStream as it battles chief rival Coca-Cola for an edge in the health-conscious beverage market. The company now focuses on turning water into sparkling water. SodaStream was in the spotlight several years ago when critics called for a boycott over a factory it had in the West Bank, despite employing many Palestinians. It has since closed that factory and relocated to a much larger facility in southern Israel. Reuters, The Guardian. See also The Times article here
- Jul.30.2013: Pepsi forks over $9 million settlement, agrees to stop calling Naked Juice 'natural'. PepsiCo has not only agreed to pay out a $9m settlement, but has also relented from labeling its juice products as "all natural," pending further clarification by the US Food and Drug Administration on the appropriate use of this widely-misunderstood term. Ethan A Huff, Natural News.
- Jun.14.2011: Plastic by Any Other Name. Coke and Pepsi’s plant-based bottles still damage the environment. The companies have merely replaced the fossil fuels (petroleum and natural gas) traditionally used to make their plastic bottles with ethanol from renewable sources. Though these initial inputs come from renewable, lower-carbon sources, the resulting plastics are chemically identical to the polyethylene terepthalate, or PET,and high-density polyethylene, or HDPE, that regular plastic bottles are made of. Amy Westervelt, Slate.
- Apr.06.2011: The Truth About Pepsi’s New Plant-Based PET Plastic Bottle. It turns out that PepsiCo’s new plant-based plastic is chemically just the same as petroleum-based plastic. My Plastic Free Life.
References
- ^ The A-List of Climate Policy Engagement. Which global companies lead in strategic lobbying for the ambitions of Paris? Rankings measure how a corporation or trade association behaves towards 2°C aligned climate and energy policy. Influence Map, Apr.2018.
- ^ The Brand Audit Report, Vol.1 Over the next 10 years, plastic production is slated to increase by 40%. Traditionally made from oil byproducts, but now increasingly made using fracked gas. Recycling is not a feasible solution to the plastic pollution crisis. Many plastics are very difficult, or impossible, to recycle. Megacorps make $billions of profits from the plastic-wrapped products - but leave communities to pay for and manage the negative impacts. As the food and products contained in plastic are consumed, people are accumulating phthalates and endocrine-disrupting chemicals in their bloodstreams. Break Free From Plastic, Oct.2018.
- ^ Corporate Political Engagement Index 2018. The new index of 104 multi-national companies, many of whom regularly meet with govt, has found nearly 75% are failing to adequately disclose how they engage with politicians. Only one company received the highest grade, with the average grade being "E" – representing poor standards in transparency. Transparency International UK, Nov.2018.
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- ^ Honey monster not enough for Big Bear. Elaine Watson, Food Manufacture, Aug.28.2006.
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- ^ Fisher-Price to Be Bought by Mattel. Calvin Sims, New York Times, Aug.20.1993.
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