Pepsi's Prez insults America

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[WKUHilltopper]

Pepsi president likens U.S. to middle finger Food giant now doing damage control in wake of speech to Columbia grads

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 20, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Food giant PepsiCo is now fizzing in damage-control mode after the company's president likened the U.S. to a middle finger.

The remarks by Indra Nooyi, an India-born woman who also serves as PepsiCo's chief financial officer, came during a speech Sunday to graduates at Columbia Business School in New York, some of whom took offense as an anti-American attack.

[Pietro]

Affirmative Action in practice.

My own company prides itself on its diversity; our customer service sucks, but we get high marks for our minority women in upper management percentages from magazines nobody ever reads.

[mallardx]

b%^ch has absolutely no respect for Antartica! /sarcasm

[bertmerc1]

PepsiCo has hundreds of brands. These are some of the best known.


Lay's potato chips
Lays Kettle Cooked potato chips
Wavy Lay's potato chips
Baked Lay's potato crisps
Maui Style potato chips
Ruffles potato chips
Baked Ruffles potato crisps
Ruffles Flavor Rush potato chips
Doritos tortilla chips
Baked Doritos tortilla chips
3D's snacks
Tostitos tortilla chips
Baked Tostitos tortilla chips
Santitas tortilla chips
Fritos corn chips
Cheetos cheese flavored snacks
Rold Gold pretzels & snack mix
Funyuns onion flavored rings
Go Snacks
Sunchips multigrain snacks
Sabritones puffed wheat snacks
Cracker Jack candy coated popcorn
Chester's popcorn
Grandma's cookies
Munchos potato crisps
Smartfood popcorn
Baken-ets fried pork skins
Oberto meat snacks
Rustler's meat snacks
Churrumais fried corn strips
Frito-Lay nuts
Frito-Lay, Ruffles, Fritos and Tostitos dips & salsas
Frito-Lay, Doritos and Cheetos snack crackers
Fritos, Tostitos, Ruffles and Doritos snack kits
Hickory Sticks
Hostess Potato
Lay's Stax potato crisps
Doritos Rollitos
Lay's Fries
Natural Lays
Natural Ruffles
Natural Cheetos
Natural Tostitos
Miss Vickie's potato chips
Munchies snack mix
Pepsi-Cola
Caffeine Free Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
Pepsi Twist (regular & diet)
Wild Cherry Pepsi
Pepsi Blue
Pepsi ONE
Pepsi Vanilla
Diet Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew Code Red
Diet Mountain Dew Code Red
Mountain Dew LiveWire
Mountain Dew Blueshock
Mountain Dew AMP energy drink
Mug
Sierra Mist (Regular & Diet)
Slice
Lipton Brisk (Partnership)
Lipton Iced Tea(Partnership)
Dole juices and juice drinks (License)
FruitWorks juice drinks
Aquafina purified drinking water
Frappuccino ready-to-drink coffee (Partnership)
Starbucks DoubleShot (Partnership)
SoBe juice drinks, dairy, and teas
SoBe energy drinks (No Fear and Adrenaline Rush)
Gatorade Thirst Quencher
Gatorade Frost Thirst Quencher Gatorade Fierce Thirst Quencher
Gatorade Ice Thirst Quencher Propel Fitness Water
Gatorade Xtremo Thirst Quencher
Gatorade X-Factor Thirst Quencher
Tropicana Pure Premium juices
Tropicana Twister juice drinks
Tropicana Smoothies
Tropicana Pure Tropics juices
Dole juices (License)
Tropicana 100 juices Outside North America
Tropicana Touche de Lait
Alvalle gazpacho fruit juices and vegetable juices
Tropicana Season's Best juices and juice drinks
Loóza juices and nectars
Copella juices
Frui'Vita juices
Quaker Oatmeal
Quaker Instant Oatmeal
Quaker Oatmeal Breakfast Squares
Cap'n Crunch cereal
Life cereal
Quaker Oatmeal Brown Sugar Bliss
Quaker Oatmeal Honey Nut Heaven
Quaker 100% Natural cereal
Quaker Squares cereal
Quisp cereal
King Vitaman cereal
Quaker Oh's! Cereal
Mother's cereal
Quaker grits
Quaker Oatmeal-to-Go
Aunt Jemima mixes & syrups
Quaker rice cakes
Quaker rice snacks (Quakes)
Quaker Chewy granola bars
Quaker Dipps granola bars
Rice-A-Roni side dishes
Pasta Roni side dishes
Near East side dishes
Puffed Wheat
Harvest Crunch cereal
Quaker Baking Mixes
Spudz snacks
Crisp'ums baked crisps
Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal bars
Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal Bites
Quaker Fruit and Oatmeal Toastables
Quaker Soy Crisps
Quaker Bakeries

Call the PepsiCo Board
(866) 626-0633

Write the PepsiCo Board
PepsiCo Board of Directors
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

Email the PepsiCo Board
BoardofDirectors@Pepsi.com

[daybreakcoming]

***to ensure the U.S. continues as the world's "helping hand." ***

And that is her bottom line. Taxpayers! Keep up the handouts so that 3rd world citizens feel free to come to the land of milk and honey to give us the finger.

[crazyhorse691]

No offense, but did you by chance graduate from bartending school?

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That would certainly be more preferable than the truth.

[bigdcaldavis]

IAWTP. Any soft drink company that hire future crackwhore Britney Spears can take its products, shine em up real nice, and stick em straight up their own candy a**es. Diet Coke with Splenda is my drink of choice...just for the taste of it.

[KoRn]

"Have a beer instead."

That's a terrific idea!

[kromike]

An interesting parallel here...

Muslims kill each other over a false story regarding their holy book, then refuse the retraction as valid.

Bloggers simply vent and suggest boycotts over a true story of a corporate exec whose comments had some (perhaps) unintentional interpretations.

So which group is more adult in their behavior?

To be fair, Ms. Nooryi's comments could have been misconstrued (we're the good guys here, remember?). If Pepsi is truly sincere, then they should make a noteworthy effort to actually thank the troops and/or their families, such as some patriotic commercials. That would go a long, long way towards dispelling the possible anti-American sense in her speech. And unlike cowardly Newsweek, Pepsi could stand up and say, "You know what? That's not what she meant and we'll put our money where our mouths are."

[TNdandelion]

Maybe she should reexamine who she hangs out with. She knows of businessmen that acted like jerks while visiting China.

I know two different families that went to China and adopted two beautiful little girls.

I'd be willing to bet that the average family person willing to adopt an orphan represents American better than the globe trotting jerks used in her analogy.

[proudofthesouth]

I prefer RC on the rare occasions that I drink soda.

[krunkygirl]

call here:

1-800-433-2652

Speak with a real live Pepsi person and let them know what you think...

Sounds like (when I spoke with "Sharon") that this is a burgeoning problem for them...she tried to convince me,nicely of course, that I had taken the offensive remarks out of context...I told her that I had heard enough of the speech to fully understand Ms. Nooyi's disparaging intent.

The call is free. Let them hear from all of us who are, indeed, offended--like me, Ms. Nooyi!

[South40]

Thanks, but I doubt "Sharon" gives a damn. The board of directors surely would.

boardofdirectors@pepsi.com

[krunkygirl]

Hi South40,

Sharon, the woman at PepsiCo that I spoke with, is in public relations and assured me (I know I'm trusting her to be truthful here) that my message and zip code (which she requested) would be passed on to executives and ?? (can't remember who else she said.)
I think it is well worth it to speak to a live person. It seemed clear by her ready response (trying to convince me that I, and others, had misunderstood Ms. Nooyi) that they have already had a significant number of negative callers and e-mailers.

I'm sure that calling and e-mailing is effective.
Do whatever is easiest for you--I like to speak with real live people and share not just my words but my decidedly angry (in a non-shouting or offensive kind of way) reaction.

[UseYourHead]

I think that U.S. citizens should be highly aware that we are NOT liked worldwide.

And why is that? Care to share? How do we fix this "supposed" dislike of America?

[OldFriend]

Actually got a reply to my letter to them.

Weasel words about how they realize that people were offended by the remarks and they will work hard to win back my trust.

HAH!!!

[bertmerc1]

Call the PepsiCo Board
(866) 626-0633

Write the PepsiCo Board
PepsiCo Board of Directors
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

Email the PepsiCo Board
BoardofDirectors@Pepsi.com

[OldFriend]

Wrote to them and they replied. Mealy mouthed apology.

[Law is not justice but process]

Buy Coca Cola stock and sell Pepsi, as I suspect Pepsi is about to lose significant market share in the USA.

[daybreakcoming]

Thanks for the number. I just called and spoke with someone who indicated they had received many calls on this. She said Ms N is a true American and did not mean it the way it was taken. Told her that Ms N is evidently a very intelligent woman who did not use her brains to use that kind of anology to make a point if indeed her apology was sincere.

[krunkygirl]

I just checked PepsiCo's stock price---gagg! it is UP $.03 a share!

The America I know and love needs more info on Ms. Nooyi, and what she said, so that PepsiCo can feel it where it hurts--in their pocket--at least until they do something much more definitive than that mealy-mouthed non-apology.