PepsiCo News

On top of a jump in political advertising ahead of the November U.S. elections and Olympic advertising before the Summer Games, television stations and networks are also getting a boost from increased ad spending by top retailers and consumer brands.

AmerisourceBergen Corp said on Monday its Chief Financial Officer Michael DiCandilo had resigned to pursue other interests, effective immediately, sparking at least one broker downgrade and sending its shares down more than 3 percent.

An eye on the future is all well and good, but Wall Street will pay relatively little for it if they fear that near-term execution will suffer as a result.

Equities research analysts at UBS AG lowered their earnings per share estimates on shares of PepsiCo in a research note issued to investors on Monday.

"This is an 'and' game and not an 'or' game". It was an unusual choice of words from PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi but one that underlined the company's push into healthier categories would continue as the US food and beverage giant set out a series of measures to improve its growth and quieten criticism from investors.

Facebook Inc.'s privately traded shares have risen 10 percent since the dominant social network filed for an initial public offering, pushing its market value past $100 billion, according to SharesPost Inc.

It has been a while since I last looked at The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, Inc .

Global companies from NEC Corp. to PepsiCo Inc. and AstraZeneca Plc are chopping jobs more than three times faster than in 2011 as they brace for recession in Europe and a slowdown in China.

After completing a thorough business review, PepsiCo management announced the results of their findings during last week's Q4 2011 conference call; here are the highlights of the full year numbers, along with the result of management's portfolio review and the changes shareholder's should be looking for as we head into 2012: Full year revenue ... (more)

The US grabbed the industry headlines this week, with PepsiCo at last outlining its plans to drive growth at the business, although the measures it has lined up has led to more questions from Wall Street analysts.

Pepsi-Cola Venezuela CA has four days to provide receipts to the government after the country's price control agency received complaints that the company raised its price for mineral water ahead of price caps.

The two men who will be co-piloting Kraft Foods Inc.'s North American grocery-goods spinoff have barely five years of experience in packaged food combined.

The 800-pound PepsiCo succession gorilla is still in the room.While many on Wall Street were hoping CEO Indra Nooyi yesterday would promote execs or otherwise make clearer a succession plan, the 56-year-old executive did neither."Some people would like to have seen [a] management succession [plan]," said one PepsiCo analyst.

Soda sales are flat and the beverage industry is looking for its next big thing.

Marion Nestle of Food Politics points to a sign of our times: "Pepsi cuts 8,700 jobs; 4th quarter profits rise." He cites these numbers from a Reuters report: Nestle rails at the juxtaposition of rising profits and "adding 8,700 out-of-work people to an already depressed job economy" and figures "public pressure and regulation" are in order.

Diamond Foods, Inc. : Proctor & Gamble issued the following Pringles transaction update: "Diamond Foods issued a news release announcing that its financial statements for 2010 and 2011 could not be relied on and would need to be restated.

At the beginning of the year, without so much as a press release, Quaker Oats gave the Quaker Man a makeover.

Bloomberg's Carol Massar examines the difference between the preliminary and final offer prices of some recent initial public offerings and discusses the outlook for Facebook Inc.

Donald Yacktman , who runs the Yacktman Funds, has a stellar track record; in the past three, five, ten, and fifteen-year periods, the fund has beat more than 99% of its peers.

A small number of Cleveland-area PepsiCo jobs will be cut as the world's largest snack-food maker eliminates 8,700 jobs worldwide.