Posted on 05/20/2005 9:46:04 AM PDT by 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.
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Thanks for calling--they need to know what real Americans think about what Ms. Nooyi
...correction: about what Ms. Nooyi said.
I'm a Pepper! Don't you wish you were a Pepper too!
"I just checked PepsiCo's stock price---gagg! it is UP $.03 a share! "
I guess my sell order hasn't gone through yet!
ICB is good too.
Good for you, Law!
I don't have any to sell...I always was a Coke kinda girl.
You left out Caffine-Free Diet Pepsi Cherry-Vanilla!
Where's her red dot?
Sorry Tex. Just a copy of their web site listing.
Since World War II the primary reason Americans are not liked is presumed to be envy. On top of that you have Europeans who are predominantly liberal. [If you think OUR press is bad, you should listen to BBC and other European news broadcasts.]
The U.S.A. is liked in Eastern Europe, but it's a toss-up in Western Europe. It's been that way for years.
If you need convincing, remember that the current German leader was elected on a platform of bashing Bush. The current Spanish government won its election based on pulling out of Iraq and slamming the U.S.
I might break down anf buy a big gulp coke
Coke and Pepsi both seem determined to lose money by inventing concoctions like Lime-Coke and every other imaginable combination that very few actually purchase.
Compared to what they were in the '50's and '60's, they're both nothing but sugar water now.
I know. Rush is talking about this now!
Now it will take off...buh,bye, Ms. Nooyi!
just called
1-800-433-2652
press zero for 0 for other comments
and say that you have read the speech and the statement that was released. That way they cant throw you off by asking you to read everything.
at the end they will for your zip code.
The republican party drinks coke...
Nearly all anti-Americanism is media driven and media fed. One on one, most people from other countries like Americans just fine - they are concerned about American politics and policies and proceed from a base of fear fueled by the media.
Envy has nothing to do with it. Non-US muslims frown on western decadence AND FEAR it may influence their young - so they brainwash their children with hate hoping it will blind them to any influence.
As for foreign elections, that is nationalism that is actually driving those votes, something apparently we can't show but all other nations should. To us it looks like they are anti-American and their media feeds off of the appearance.
Pepsi is saddled up to do 500 million dollars worth of business with India - if they can make a sweeter deal by playing a little nationalism with India in order to distance themselves from US politics, they will do it in a second.
call the board of Directors tel # and leave message: 866-626-0633
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