During today’s third-quarter investor conference call with Wall Street analysts, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Ramon Laguarta addressed pressure from activist investor Elliott Investment Management for PepsiCo to refranchise the company’s North American beverage bottling and distribution system. “We’re going..

PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew brand will get in on the dirty soda trend with a Dirty Mountain Dew to roll out early next year. PepsiCo will launch the Cream Soda Dew flavor nationally in regular and zero sugar options after a ...

LaCroix, Primo Stocks Dove

Retailers Walmart, Casey’s, Dollar General Beat S&P 500. Target Fell

Coca-Cola’s stock has outperformed both PepsiCo’s shares and Keurig Dr Pepper’s during the first three quarters of this year. Coke shares grew...

I’ve never been a pot smoker, aside from some low-key experimentation in college. The idea of trying hemp-based THC drinks was daunting, I’ll admit.

As a 55-year-old who came of age during the Reagan “Just Say No” to drugs era of the 1980s, there is still stigma and apprehension attached to marijuana for me. That’s despite 15% of US adults telling Gallup last year that they smoke marijuana, up from 7.0% in 2013. Forty-seven percent of Americans said they have tried marijuana. THC is now legal in some form in all but four states.

Meanwhile, the

Jel Sert’s Pure Kick Alkaline Sticks to Launch in November

Meanwhile, Sports Powder Leader Liquid I.V. Launches Energy Hybrid

Unilever-owned Liquid I.V. electrolyte powders and Nestlé-owned Nuun dissolvable tablets have fueled growing consumer uptake of single-serve beverage enhancers in recent years. Powdered sports and energy drink mixes — which can include...

Independent Pepsi Bottlers Want Path to Long-term Security

But Win For Elliott Doesn’t Have to Include Bottler Refranchising

Twelve years ago, activist investor Nelson Peltz and his Trian Fund Management accumulated a $1.3 billion stake in PepsiCo and publicly pressed the company to hive off its beverage business to improve lackluster performance. Today, PepsiCo finds itself in a...