The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of Pepsi-Cola beverages. Its beverage products include Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, Sierra Mist, Diet Mountain Dew, Lipton Brisk, Sobe, Starbucks Frappuccino, and Tropicana juice drinks. The company also manufactures, sells, and distributes soft drink products of companies other than PepsiCo, including Dr Pepper and Squirt, as well as under trademarks Electropura, Epura, and Garci Crespo.
Pepsi Bottling Group Inc.
One Pepsi Way
Somers, NY 10589
Phone: 914-767-6000
Fax: 914-767-7761
Activists in India have held nationwide protests against multinational soft drink companies Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Reports said thousands of protesters had gathered near manufacturing plants of the two firms and demanded that they stop production.
Activists want the firms to leave India because they say their plants deplete ground water – claims the soft drinks giants both strenuously deny
The Indian parliament has banned the sale of Coke and Pepsi products in its cafeteria. Indian parliamentarians should take the logical next step, and ban the sale of Coke and Pepsi products in the entire country.
The ban came as the result of tests, including those by the Indian government, which found high concentrations of pesticides and insecticides, including lindane, DDT, malathion and chlorpyrifos, in the colas, making them unfit for consumption