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Annual PepsiCo/SWE Student Engineering Challenge Gives Undergraduates Real-World Engineering Experience

Stuart Mitchell

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and PepsiCo kick off this year’s PepsiCo/SWE Student Engineering Challenge, an annual competition that challenges undergraduate students to deliver innovative ideas and technical solutions in response to real-life business challenges. Teams will compete for cash prizes and the opportunity to present their ideas in Anaheim, California at WE19, one of the largest professional development and networking conferences for women in engineering. “Globally, over 32 percent of women switch out of STEM degree programs in college and only 30 percent of women who earn a…

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PepsiCo And The Global FoodBanking Network Partnership Delivers More Than 85 Million Servings Of Fresh Food To Communities In Need In 2018

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo, one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN), a nonprofit organization that develops and supports food banks in more than 30 countries, delivered more than 85 million servings of fresh food to communities in need in 2018 as part of their partnership to strengthen food banks around the world. PepsiCo invested $500,000 with GFN to support training and development for food bank staff and purchases of essential equipment like trucks and refrigerated storage space – investments that help food banks enhance their…

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PepsiCo Announces New Packaging Goal For 25% Recycled Plastic Content By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

As part of its sustainable plastics vision, PepsiCo, Inc. today announced a new goal to strive to use 25 percent recycled content in its plastic packaging by 2025. PepsiCo aims to achieve this goal by collaborating with suppliers and partners, helping to increase consumer education, fostering cross-industry and public-private partnerships, and advocating for improved recycling infrastructure and regulatory reform, all of which are required to realize our ambition. The goal includes an aim specific to PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage bottles to achieve 33% recycled PET content by 2025. “PepsiCo’s sustainable…

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PepsiCo Launches Nutrition Greenhouse Program to Support Food and Beverage Brands Driving Change in North America

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo announced today the launch of its Nutrition Greenhouse accelerator program in North America, an innovation initiative designed to discover and support emerging brands in the food and beverage sector. The North American program follows the launch of PepsiCo’s Nutrition Greenhouse in Europe, now in its second year. In 2017, eight start-ups in the European program delivered an estimated combined sales growth of over €10 million – a fourfold increase throughout the duration of the 6-month program.    “Nutrition Greenhouse is part of our commitment to open innovation and collaborating…

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PepsiCo Expands Safe Water Access to nearly 16 Million People, Achieving More than 60 Percent of Company’s Performance with Purpose 2025 Goal

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo today announced it has expanded access to safe water to nearly 16 million people in some of the world’s most water-stressed areas, including 10 million people in India, since it launched its Performance with Purpose vision in 2006. The company has invested more than $40 million in safe water access solutions with strategic partners as part of its goal to support a total of 25 million people with safe water access by 2025. “At PepsiCo, we believe water is a fundamental human right and that access to safe water…

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