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POLAND – PepsiCo, American food and drink giant has opened a new 1-billion-zloty (US$238M) snack plant in the southwestern Polish village of Święte, Bakery and Snacks has reported. According to Bakery and Snacks, the facility, which will produce Lay’s and Doritos among other brands, is the firm’s fifth plant in Poland and its biggest investment so far in the country.…
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SOUTH AFRICA – Pioneer Foods, a subsidiary of PepsiCo South Africa has acquired the remaining half of Futurelife Health, eight years after buying its initial stake in the maker of nutrient-dense breakfast cereals and snacks. BizCommunity reports that the transaction, which is subject to some administrative condition’s precedent, is expected to close and be effective in the first week of…
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GLOBAL – Kellogg Co., PepsiCo, Inc., and Grupo Bimbo, giant multinationals from the food and beverage space, have made it to the 2023 list of “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute. The Ethisphere Institute is a for-profit company that defines and measures corporate ethical standards, recognizes companies that excel, and promote best practices in corporate ethics The celebrated…
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USA – The latest report from snack food giant Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo., reveals a preference for flavor-dusted chips by Gen Z, different from regular tortilla chips and potato chips that have topped the market for ages. Frito-Lay conducted a snack survey with the zoomers, born in the late 1990s to early 2000s, noting that nearly 3 in…
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UK – PepsiCo, Inc, in partnership with UK’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), has opened a new research lab dedicated to testing oats from its innovative R&D agricultural science programs. The new laboratory is located at the NIAB plant science research organization in Cambridge and will be used by PepsiCo expert crop researchers to test and analyze a pool…
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SOUTH AFRICA – PepsiCo Sub-Saharan Africa has launched a new production line at its Weet-Bix plant in Atlantis, West Cape worth R300m (about US$16.92m) in a quest to boost its production capacity. Weet-Bix was first introduced in South Africa in 1930 and remains South Africa’s number one-selling breakfast cereal. Made from whole grain wheat, Weet-Bix has for generations held pride…
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