Gary Rodkin, in charge of PepsiCo beverages and foods for North America, sees opportunity in pushing caffeine-free drinks.
"Maybe caffeine-free products could be growth opportunities, " muses Gary Rodkin , chief executive of PepsiCo beverages and foods North America.
Since last year's list, IndraNooyiIndra Nooyi, IreneRosenfeldIrene Rosenfeld and PatriciaWoertzPatricia Woertz were named to the top jobs at PepsiCo, Kraft Foods and Archer Daniels Midland.
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Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria, and of course, fierce global competition.
Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria (nyse: MO - news - people ), and of course, fierce global competition.
Just as PepsiCo creates its products out of whole foods, which are broken down into components and then, through processing, reassembled into drinks and snacks, so Nooyi has a tendency to lift words from their natural context and repurpose them to suit the needs of PepsiCo.
While a competitor with public food companies like Kraft Foods Group, Kellogg, PepsiCo and Hershey, the 82-year-old company has struggled to maintain peace with its union.
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Although Nooyi stops short of accepting culpability for the obesity crisis she thinks sedentary life styles, not energy-dense processed foods, are the main culprit she agrees that PepsiCo has a responsibility to do something about the problem.
The growth has caught the attention of big food companies like PepsiCo, which bought a 50% stake in Sabra in 2008, and Kraft Foods Group Inc.
Brands (nyse: YUM - news - people ), PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) and Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ), makers of high-calorie foods, who some have blamed for the "epidemic" of obesity and the overweight in America.
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