Food focus keeps PepsiCo going, but Coke struggles amid Covid-19 pandemic

Estimates indicate that volumes for the whole year for beverages will be down to a third of last year, despite the push by soft drink companies to go online

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PepsiCo | Coca Cola | Pepsico India

Surajeet Das Gupta  |  New Delhi 

One of the things Covid-19 has brought into stark relief is the contrasting strategies of PepsiCo and Coke in India and how the differences have had a bearing on their performance during the pandemic.

One big change is that PepsiCo is now less of a cola or a beverage company and more of a foods major. Declaring the financial results a few weeks ago for Q3 of 2020, PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta announced that despite a slow revenue growth of 2 per cent in emerging and developing markets, India bucked the trend, showing a high single digit growth as compared with double digit decline in ...

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First Published: Wed, October 28 2020. 06:10 IST
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