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The AC post that responded to me is score 0.. So I'm basically reposting it.

Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew has limited availability in the US.

http://cr.pepsico.com/dew/ will show if any stores carry it in a 50-mile radius of your zip code.

Unfortunately, not available within 50 miles of me.

Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew has limited availability in the US.

The Dew Locator will show if any stores carry it in a 50-mile radius of your zip code.

At Coca Cola, you can't even talk about P*psi based products, bring one in to work or eat at their sponsored establishments.

As a comparison... here's Coca Cola's list of brands.

So "don't buy a iPhone with MSFT's company's funds" is a lot easier than "don't consume our competitors products while on business." Not so easy when you're flying and you want a drink and the only drinks that the airline carries are from your competitor...

He's probably thinking of corporate annual reports. The vast majority of the Fortune 1000 have really glitzed up their regulatory reporting over the past couple of decades. Random examples:

Ford Motor Company

Bank of America

Pepsi Corporation

Even though Bill Redmond had no non-compete with Pepsico, for example, an Illinois federal court enjoined him for five months from performing particular kinds of work for the Gatorade/Snapple division of Quaker Oats.

Actually, on Pepsi, you just hit the tip of the iceburg.

The link you gave goes to the Pepsi-Cola list of products. Pepsi-Cola is owned by Pepsico. Pepsico also owns Frito-Lay, Quaker (oats and stuff), Tropicana, and Gatorade. Here is a good link to all of their brands: http://www.pepsico.com/company/brands.shtml. Stock ticker symbol is 'pep'. The main Coke stock ticker symbol, if anyone wants to compare, is 'ko'. Yes, Coke is diversified too, and is a larger company, based on market cap.

So Pepsi(co) is really in the same boat as Microsoft and Sony. It's a huge company, where soft-drinks are only part of the picture- albeit a large part.

Nintendo on the other hand has, according to the original article, claimed that they only make video games. But, then again, the article did state that they have a new advertising campaign.

Actually, Pepsico spunoff their resturants off a few years ago. Now they are owned by "TriCon"

But I don't know what you are talking about... Cheetos rule, Tostitos rule, Sun Chips rule and god knows Pepsi rules. Therefore Pepsico rules.

-Lenza

Perhaps you should get your facts straight. PepsiCo spun off their restaurant business in 1997, which became TRICON Global Restaurants, Inc. PepsiCo holds a very considerable amount of stock in TRICON. Here's a PepsiCo press release released when the spin-off was approved.

Not anymore, buddy. Pepsi sold off most of its subsidiaries, including all of its fast-food holdings. The only thing I know of that Pepsi still holds, outside of grocery-type-products, is Regal Cinemas, inc.

You are right about the fast food joints. I won't argue there. The last time I knew, PepsiCo owned them, but it appears they have since sold them off. I also won't disagree with your comment on how restaurants choose their soda line. They do whatever is cheaper (usually).

However, I would challenge you about the rest of their "grocery-type-products." Check the PepsiCo web site, it appears that they still own the Frito-Lay product line as well as the Tropicana product line. (Just look at the four logos in the upper-right hand corner of the page.)

This is starting to get off topic, but...
I'm not sure about McDonalds, but I know that KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are owned by PepsiCo , which also owns the Pepsi product line, the Frito-Lay product line, and the Tropicana product line.

So in order to effectively boycott KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut, you can't buy and Frito-lay products, Pepsi products or Tropicana products.

And then there's Philip Morris owning Kraft...

Oh well

I find it ironic in cosmic proportions that the birthplace and former bastion of communism is prostituting itself with wanton abandon for the gratification of pathologically capitalist companines like PepsiCo and their spinoff Pizza Hut.

This is great! This is at LEAST a hundred points for us Americans!

$23 million

>And what's Pepsi's annual net?

You really want to know? 1998 operating profit was about $2.5 billion.

pepsico annual report for 1998

With numbers like this, I think this guy is just yanking their chain looking for a tidy little settlement to drop down.