Woman named CEO of Pepsi-Cola (Isn't she the middle finger speech maker?)

Pepsico Inc. Chief Financial Officer Indra K. Nooyi will replace Steven Reinemund as chief executive, the Pepsi-Cola and snacks company said yesterday, making her the No. 2-ranked female CEO in the Fortune 500.
    With her Oct. 1 appointment, Mrs. Nooyi takes her place in an elite group of 11 female CEOs running Fortune 500 companies. Patricia Woertz at agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. ranks first. ADM is ranked 56th in the Fortune 500, while Pepsico, the world's second-largest soft-drink company after Coca-Cola Co., is ranked 61st.
    "I'm very excited and at the same time very humbled," she told analysts during a conference call yesterday morning.
    Mrs. Nooyi said she felt fortunate to be taking over at a time when Pepsico was in such a strong position, with solid growth across all its business units. She and Mr. Reinemund have worked closely over the last five years, and Mrs. Nooyi described their relationship as one in which they complete each other's sentences.
    "Indra Nooyi is truly a star and has been working side by side with Mr. Reinemund over the past several years," Citigroup analyst Bonnie Herzog wrote. "She has been very involved with every major decision Pepsico has made over the past five-plus years, and therefore, we expect this transition to be very smooth."

...and one to my retirement fund company urging that they drop Pepsico from their portfolio.

Though that would be emotionally satisfying, it does not necessarily make for the best economic sense.

Consider that most of the world hates the United States (though would come here in an instant if given the opportunity), including many who actually do benefit from living here. You need to consider the global market, in that Pepsi is distancing itself from US affiliation. When this cracked-pot insulted the US, she was also boosting Pepsi's image to the America hating world. The products that Pepsi makes are on the "hit-list" by the Food Police, so (A) this is a move to buy immunity from the Dictatorship's autocratic rule, or (B) become the choice drink of America Haters or (C) nothing at all since hardly anyone knows of her contempt for the US, and even if they did, they don't have the character to care or do anything in response.

Taking money from pot-smoking liberals, welfare deadbeats addicted to junk food and emerging market consumers is always a good thing in my opinion.

I'm sure that every company listed on the NYSE has loathsome creatures who hate America and traditional values somewhere in positions of power.

“More reason to stick to Coke, which I have preferred to Pepsi all my life anyways”.

Apparently you are young enough to have not been drinking coke in 5 cent bottles when it really was coke, and not the crap they are selling today.

That said, I can tolerate fountain and bottled coke, but Pepsi with a half a lemon squeezed in just blows coke into the weeds, for me anyway. Everyone has their likes, which is why there are at least two major cola drinks.

The old coke that I was drinking in the early fifties was pure gold as a drink and probably built coke’s reputation. There is no comparison what ever with the present coke, especially canned.

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