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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.
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In 1935, the shareholders of Loft sued Guth for his 91% stake of Pepsi-Cola Company in the landmark case Guth v. Loft Inc. Loft won the suit and on May 29, 1941, formally absorbed Pepsi into Loft, which was then re-branded as Pepsi-Cola Company that same year. Loft restaurants and candy stores were spun off at this time.
The company's namesake, Pepsi-Cola was actually first sold as “Brad’s Soda” as far back as 1893. The soda was created by Caleb Bradham in North Carolina, and in 1898, he renamed his soda ...
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi can trace their origins back to the 1890s, and the two sodas seemed to be able to peacefully co-exist until nearly a century later. But in the 1980s, the companies began...
In 2000, Whitman Corp., a Pepsi bottler, purchased PepsiAmericas and took the acquired company's name. [2] Whitman was founded as the Illinois Central Railroad. [3] It later diversified out of railroads and into Pepsi bottling, going by the names Illinois Central Industries in 1962, IC Industries in 1975 and Whitman Corp. in 1988.
Pepsi Bottling Group was based in Somers, New York. On August 4, 2009, The Pepsi Bottling Group and another major Pepsi bottler, PepsiAmericas, were purchased by PepsiCo, headquartered in Purchase, New York. [3] The purchases were completed on February 26, 2010, forming a wholly owned PepsiCo subsidiary, the Pepsi Beverages Company (PBC).
Baghdad Soft Drinks Co (ISX: IBSD on the Iraq Stock Exchange) is a Soft drinks Bottling company in Iraq. It is the company that has the exclusive licence to sell Pepsi products in Iraq. PepsiCo International's franchise agreement authorises Baghdad Soft Drinks Company to produce and distribute PepsiCo's Pepsi-Cola, Seven-Up and Mirinda soft ...