United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and India-origin PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi figure among the top 10 in the global list of most powerful women, in the league of leaders like Angela Merkel, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Enthused by four-fold growth in business in the last five years, US cola giant PepsiCo on Tuesday announced up to Rs 2,200 crore ($500 million) investment to consolidate its beverages and snacks business in India.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar accused the Congress of ignoring farmers' interests and keeping them poor to ensure cheap grain prices, and asserted that the Modi government empowered them by implementing the Swaminathan commission report to give them remunerative price through MSP.
Nooyi recounted that she felt guilty for not being able to attend several activities at her daughters' school as she could not take time off from work.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and PepsiCo will jointly help Maharashtra government tackle the drought in Marathwada.
Deal pegged at Rs 7-10 crore (Rs 70-100 million) a year.
Stung by doubts raised over the safety of its fastest-growing brand in India, PepsiCo on Friday asserted that Mountain Dew was a totally safe product complying with all food standards nationally and globally, and was the same that was being marketed
Stung by the "pesticides report" on colas by CSE, Pepsi on Friday filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain the NGO from publishing the report, while asking for an independent evaluation of the "damaging" report.
Close on the heels of a major health scare on finding pesticides in bottled drinking water, CSE claimed that the bottled soft drinks owned by PepsiCo and Coke also failed the same health standards testing positive for pesticides.
PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Motorola's Sanjay Kumar Jha and Citigroup's Vikram Pandit are the three Indian-Americans among US' highest paid CEOs listed by Wall Street Journal.
India-born PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi figures among the top10 in 2013.
Government is believed to have given the go ahead to cola giant Pepsico to acquire one of its franchisees by bringing overseas funds while making it mandatory on the soft-drink conglomerate to divest 49 per cent equity in the same within five years.
State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI bank head Chanda Kochhar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HT Media chair Shobhana Bhartia are among the world's 100 most powerful women.
Advertisers are changing methods to grab consumers' attention.
"When friends and relatives came, they all told my mother that she had got a great daughter. But it is not about me, but about my parents who brought me up so well," Nooyi said.
ITC wasted no time in capitalising on its new acquisition.
The US CEOs accompanying Obama discussed with their Indian counterparts, different issues relating to business environment and challenges in the two countries.
Speculation is rife that it was the poor response to Pepsi Atom and the heavy spending on IPL that cost him his job.
Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal - the founders of IndiGo - will possibly face each other with deep mistrust, which the board chairman, M Damodaran, will attempt to defuse.
By becoming associate sponsor, STAR Plus brand will get assured mileage on broadcaster SET Max.
With Ju-C, the beverage maker launches a price war in the fruit juice space.
In his last assignment, he led the global product strategy and commercialisation functions at Novartis Pharma AG.
'If they add a small paragraph that no purchase will be allowed below the MSP, they have a winner on their hands'
Obama will meet leaders from the business, labour, progressive and civic community.
FCMG companies which have plants i Npal may take a hit on revenues.
With states in north India imposing stricter measures to curb intra-state movement after April 20, makers of summer products such as air conditioners, refrigerators, colas, and ice creams are estimating a 25-60 per cent drop in yearly sales.
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Defence major Boeing on Monday proposed greater business engagement with India, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the US companies to provide friendlier business environment in the country.
Thums Up's tieup with Khan's Ek Tha Tiger then seems like a precursor to the association.
She expects to expand the Indian distribution system in a big way.
Taking a break from their hectic schedule and boardroom meetings, nine CEOs would display their singing prowess at a charity dinner event in Bengaluru to raise funds for children on July 16.
Countries across the world -- from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada to Singapore and New Zealand, are witnessing phenomenal strides by Indian-origin politicians, who are now taking on influential and prominent roles in governments and cabinets.
Top brands like PepsiCo, Nestle, Citibank have roped in leading designers like Manish Malhotra, Wendell Rodricks, Tarun Tahiliani to design the packaging for their products so as to draw a better connect with fashion-conscious consumer. In the bargain, they are also hoping for higher recall value.
According to Nielsen India online viewership has doubled since 2011.
Consumers have given a thumbs-up to these products, especially in countries such as India. The latter remains a key market for these brands, with volume sales seeing double-digit growth quarter on quarter.
The Starbucks partnership will take couple of years to break-even.
PET bottles can be recycled and so reduce the amount of waste going into landfills.
'To all the MBAs that burn the candle at both ends, travel half-a-million miles every year, and spend little or no quality time with their families, the rise to riches of Mr Bikhchandani and Mr Banga, should be true inspiration,' notes Sandeep Goyal.
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