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Clarkin was a former executive of the Pepsi-Cola Company who came to the Philippines as a member of the US Air Force during the close of World War II. [1] [2] In the beginning, the company imported Pepsi-Cola until 1947, when its first bottling plant was established in Quezon City. After Clarkin returned to the United States in 1957, Pepsi-Cola ...
Pepsi ⓘ is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor, manufactured by PepsiCo.As of 2023, Pepsi is the second most valuable soft drink brand worldwide behind Coca-Cola; [1] the two share a long-standing rivalry in what has been called the "cola wars".
PepsiCo's businesses in these regions, as of 2015, contributed 10 percent to the company's net revenue worldwide. [66] In 1992, the Pepsi Number Fever marketing campaign in the Philippines accidentally distributed 800,000 winning bottle caps for a 1 million peso grand prize, leading to riots and the deaths of five people. [96]
A Brief History of Coke and Pepsi Coca-Cola was invented in 1986 by a pharmacist in Columbus, Georgia, who began selling it to soda fountains, the History Channel reported. Six years later, the ...
PepsiCo, the larger conglomerate that is a result of decades of mergers, actually began as Pepsi-Cola in the 1890s and was founded by a pharmacist in North Carolina. See: Inside the Cola Wars: The ...
A variety with added Pink Grapefruit flavor. It was sold in Canada by PepsiCo until being discontinued in 2006, with a brief re-release in 2008. [36] 7 Up Frootaz 2000s A tropical flavored variety sold by PepsiCo in the Philippines for a short time in the 2000s. [citation needed] 7 Up H2OH! 2000s
Pepsi Number Fever, [1] also known as the 349 incident, [2] was a promotion held by PepsiCo in the Philippines in 1992, which led to riots [3] and the death of at least five people. [ 4 ] A similar promotion ran in Poland in 1995, known as Numeromania , although it did not cause as much controversy.
The company was founded in 1981 as Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. and renamed Coca-Cola FEMSA Philippines, Inc. on January 25, 2013, after becoming jointly owned by Mexico-based Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. and The Coca-Cola Company. The company was renamed Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. in December 2018, after being acquired by ...