Breaking News on Food & Beverage Development - North America EU edition

PureCircle raises $67.18m for stevia investment

18-Nov-2009 - supplies sweeteners to beverage giants PepsiCo Inc and Cola Co, predicts significantly rising demand

CT attorney general urges companies to drop Smart Choices logo

28-Oct-2009 - Foods, PepsiCo, Riviana Foods, Sun-Maid and Unilever, urging them to leave the program. In fact

Smart Choices labeling program suspended

26-Oct-2009 - , including Kellogg’s, General Mills, Kraft, Unilever, ConAgra, and PepsiCo’s Quaker Foods. The Smart

PepsiCo launches stevia drink under natural health product rules

15-Oct-2009 - PepsiCo launches stevia drink under natural health product rules ... PepsiCo’s Aquafina Plus Vitamins 10 Cal has become the first mainstream stevia-sweetened beverage ... PepsiCo’s Aquafina Plus Vitamins 10 Cal has become the first mainstream stevia-sweetened beverage ... . However, PepsiCo has found a different route by which it has launched its new beverage: Vitamin waters . The drink also contains the natural sweetener erythritol, PepsiCo said. Steviol glycosides can be used ... stevia, PepsiCo

Groups unite to fight US obesity

05-Oct-2009 - Food giants PepsiCo and Kellogg’s are among the companies that have joined with the likes Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo chairman and chief executive officer and HWCF vice chair. "At the same ... obesity, Kellogg's, PepsiCo

What CEOs earn at the big food firms

25-Sep-2009 - The companies included in this break-down are: PepsiCo, Kellogg, General Mills, Kraft, Con often accounting for as much as 70 percent. For example, the salary of PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi

Health and natural keep US market resilient

25-Sep-2009 - . Nestlé, PepsiCo and Kraft continue to dominate the packaged grocery sector, but the merger of Mars

New report makes the case for nationwide soda tax

21-Sep-2009 - They wrote that opposition from the beverage industry is to be expected, like PepsiCo’s threat that it would

Merisant to exit bankruptcy

16-Sep-2009 - the Whole Earth Sweetener Company (a subsidiary of Merisant), along with PepsiCo, and PureCircle, launched

Kraft adopts Smart Choices criteria for kids’ advertising

12-Aug-2009 - , Kellogg Co., PepsiCo, Sun-Maid, Tyson and Unilever. Qualification is based on three categories: Nutrients

Misplaced letter could cost $1.26bn in bottled water case

02-Nov-2009 - PepsiCo has lost a $1.26bn case after a misplaced letter meant the drinks giant failed to turn up ... PepsiCo has lost a $1.26bn case after a misplaced letter meant the drinks giant failed to turn up ... Charles Joyce and James Voigt filed a lawsuit back in April against PepsiCo for trade secret misappropriation and then won a default judgment last month because no defense was made. PepsiCo has since ... PepsiCo, bottled water, lawsuit

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News in brief

Commission clears PepsiAmericas acquisition

27-Oct-2009 - Commission clears PepsiAmericas acquisition ... The European Commission has cleared PepsiCo’s acquisition of one of its bottlers PepsiAmericas. ... The European Commission has cleared PepsiCo’s acquisition of one of its bottlers PepsiAmericas. ... PepsiCo announced the $7.8bn acquisition of Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas in August in a in the market structure because the company already bottles, sells and distributes PepsiCo drinks. PAS ... PepsiCo, PepsiAmericas

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Ocean Spray extends Pepsi partnership beyond cranberry

22-Oct-2009 - Ocean Spray extends Pepsi partnership beyond cranberry ... PepsiCo and Ocean Spray have added more single-serve juices and juice drinks to their three year ... PepsiCo and Ocean Spray have added more single-serve juices and juice drinks to their three year ... Back in the summer of 2006 PepsiCo subsidiary Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages (PCNAB) agreed the agreement with PepsiCo, Ocean Spray hopes to take advantage of its broad retail network and ultimately ... Ocean Spray, PepsiCo

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Coca-Cola shrinks cans to fight obesity

20-Oct-2009 - including PepsiCo and Kellogg’s to create an industry coalition called the Healthy Weight Commitment

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Spanish market holds promise for salt replacement

13-Oct-2009 - , like PepsiCo for example, who are looking to reduce sodium globally…And there is a major biscuit

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PepsiCo merges newly acquired bottlers

05-Oct-2009 - PepsiCo merges newly acquired bottlers ... PepsiCo has created a new bottling company called PepsiCo Bottling North America (PBNA) following ... PepsiCo has created a new bottling company called PepsiCo Bottling North America (PBNA) following ... Back in August, PepsiCo bought Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas for $7.8bn in a deal is the next step in the process of integrating the businesses into PepsiCo. Together they will become PBNA – a ... PepsiCo, bottlers, merger

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What CEOs earn in the big food firms

24-Sep-2009 - The companies included in this break-down are: PepsiCo, Kellogg, General Mills, Kraft, Con often accounting for as much as 70 percent. For example, the salary of PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi ... CEO basic salaries, PepsiCo, Kellogg, General Mills, Kraft, ConAgra, Sara Lee

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PepsiCo imports fail Chinese quality control

23-Sep-2009 - PepsiCo imports fail Chinese quality control ... Global drinks giant PepsiCo is one of a number of western companies whose imported food ... Global drinks giant PepsiCo is one of a number of western companies whose imported food ... More than 150 imported food and cosmetics items failed quality tests including PepsiCo's orange -based drinks company said: "PepsiCo applies strict quality testing standards to its imported fruit juice ... food safety, China, PepsiCo

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Brands slash unhealthy kids' food ads by 93%

11-Sep-2009 - . Signatories to the pledge include number of snack food companies, including Mars, Kellogg’s, Nestle, PepsiCo

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Coke follows Pepsi into coconut water

03-Sep-2009 - Coke follows Pepsi into coconut water ... Coca-Cola has invested in coconut water company Zico only a couple of weeks after Pepsi-Co ... Coca-Cola has invested in coconut water company Zico only a couple of weeks after Pepsi-Co ... investment of $15m from Coca-Cola, and others including Jesse Itzler, principal of Suite 850 and co

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