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    Pepsico India

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    Company Description

    PepsiCo entered India in 1989 and in a short period, has grown into one of the largest food and beverage businesses in the country.

    One of the largest US multinational investors in the country, PepsiCo has been consistently investing in India and has built an expansive beverage and snack food business supported by 38 beverage plants and 3 food plants.

    PepsiCo and its partners recently announced an additional targeted investment of Rs. 33,000 Crore (5.5 billion USD) in India by 2020 in the areas of product innovation, increasing manufacturing capacity, ramping up market infrastructure, strengthening supply chain and expanding company’s agriculture programme.
     

    (Click to enlarge) Snacks Plants in India (Courtesy: Pepsico India)

    Snacks Plants in India (Courtesy: Pepsico India)

    PepsiCo India’s diverse portfolio includes iconic brands like Pepsi, Lay’s, Kurkure, Tropicana, Gatorade and Quaker. In two decades, the company has been able to organically grow eight brands that generate Rs. 1000 crores or more (1.6 billion USD) in estimated annual retails sales and are household names, trusted across the country.

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    Big victory for farmers: India revokes patent for PepsiCo's Lay's potatoes.
    December 09, 2021

    Big victory for farmers: India revokes patent for PepsiCo's Lay's potatoes

    India has revoked a patent for a potato variety grown exclusively for PepsiCo Inc's popular Lay's potato chips, according to an order issued on Friday by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR) Authority.
    Kurkure witnesses a jump in penetration and order frequency as in-home consumption rises
    September 23, 2020

    India: Kurkure witnesses a jump in penetration and order frequency as in-home consumption rises

    Dilen Gandhi, Sr. Director and Category Head - Foods, PepsiCo India tells us how difficult the lockdown period was for Pepsico's Kurkure and how the company plans to leverage on the current rise in-home consumption for snacks.
    PepsiCo India partners with Dunzo to launch Exclusive LAY'S and Kurkure E-Stores
    May 29, 2020

    PepsiCo India partners with Dunzo to launch Exclusive LAY'S and Kurkure E-Stores

    Starting with Bengaluru, the services will soon expand to Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Jaipur Consumers can select their favorite snack brands on 'daily grocery' on Dunzo's app, place their orders & get them delivered to their doorstep within an hour of ordering.
    Pepsico India's ownership of Potato variety FL-2027 again challenged in farmer protests
    November 26, 2019

    Pepsico India's ownership of Potato variety FL-2027 again challenged in farmer protests

    Farmers' rights activists on Tuesday planted FL-2027 seed potatoes on a plot of farmland in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to protest food and beverages major PepsiCo's reassertion of rights over the variety.