This report focuses on the actions and responsibilities of four of the world’s biggest plastic polluters: CocaCola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever. These companies continue to sell billions of products in single-use bottles, sachets and packets in developing countries. And they do this despite knowing that: 1) waste isn’t properly managed …
PEPSICO DISCUSSES PLANS TO WIDEN PRODUCT PORTFOLIO IN INDIA Our Bureau MUMBAI PEPSICO on Wednesday discussed plans to widen its product portfolio in India and build the brand
the association of physicians in India has decided to raise Rs 1 crore through endorsements this financial year. The decision comes a year after the Indian Medical Association, or ima, faced flak for endorsing food products. When ima had endorsed PepsiCo
To Adopt Common Nutritional Labelling Standards To Address Health Awareness Kala Vijayraghavan & Ratna Bhushan MUMBAI | DELHI INDIAN subsidiaries of global food and beverage companies such as Unilever, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and ConAgra are planning to adopt common nutritional labelling standards to address growing health awareness and concerns about …
Contract farming if carefully planned and executed, provides a win-win situation for both the producer and processors. It ensures better linkage between farm and market where processor gets timely and consistent supply of raw material of the desired quality at low cost. The contract farmers in the study were the …
This assessment of contract farming practices in Hoshiarpur district in Punjab by CENTAD finds that the system does not allow equal stake to the farmers in deciding terms and conditions of the contract farming practices and there is need to analyse, and make amendments at the policy level. The study …
Hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants are a "natural" cooler widely used in domestic and commercial refrigerators all over the world, except in the U.S. and Canada. HC refrigerants produce less greenhouse gasses than hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) technology, but they aren't approved for the U.S. market - yet. Now Greenfreeze, the Greenpeace-developed HC refrigerant, …
Pepsi, which was founded and marketed by a pharmacist as a digestive syrup, is revisiting its roots with an ultra-cheap softdrink that will aid the fight against anaemia in women in rural India. The product expected to be launched as early as next year may cost just Re 1 or …
With members like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brown-Forman, Beam Global Spirits and Wine, Carlsberg and Molson Coors Brewing, this group works to define a common framework for assessing water use, improve industry practices and performance and inform public policy in areas such as water conservation. PEPSICO - Gatorade plants are …
The Italian restaurant backed by celebrities Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich is one of several shunning bottled water, along with the city of San Francisco and New York state. "The argument for local water is compelling and obvious," said Bastianich, who is phasing out bottled water across his restaurant empire, …
Lunch with BS: Sanjeev Chadha Suvi Dogra & Kanika Datta / New Delhi June 16, 2009, 0:27 IST Sanjeev ChadhaThe table at Cilantro, the multi-cuisine restaurant at the Oberoi Trident in Gurgaon, is booked for five people. Five? Sanjeev Chadha, chairman, PepsiCo, India Region, would be accompanied by two corporate …
Coca-Cola Co said on Thursday it has developed a new plastic bottle that is partly made from sugar cane and molasses, raising the bar in the battle for the most environmentally friendly packaging. Coke will test the new bottle in North America with Dasani bottled water and certain carbonated brands …
Cola giant Pepsico India Holdings has approached the Supreme Court seeking permission to use the pictorial display of 'snow-capped mountain' on its packaged drinking water 'Aquafina'. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari, while issuing notice to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and the Bureau of Indian Standards …
PepsiCo Inc is testing greener vending machines, a move that helps the soft drink maker reduce its environmental footprint and gives businesses a little relief on their electric bills. The test involving 30 machines in the Washington, D.C., area has just begun. Pepsi hopes to begin rolling them out worldwide …
PepsiCo Inc. is reducing the amount of plastic it uses to package its bottled water in the U.S., in the latest step by a beverage company to portray itself as environmentally conscious as bottled water sales slip. The new half-liter (16.9-oz.) bottle for Aquafina, the largest U.S. bottled water brand, …
A consumer goods manufacturer cannot be imposed with punitive damage unless found guilty of having manufactured a lot of hazardous or contaminated goods, the Delhi State Consumer Commission said.
A STAFF REPORTER Calcutta, Jan. 14: Food and beverage company PepsiCo today announced its decision to pump an additional Rs 250 crore into its factory at Sankrail, Howrah. PepsiCo subsidiary Frito-Lay manufactures and markets a variety of chips and snacks from the Rs 500-crore unit.
