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#said Jeff Dahncke, a spokesman for Pepsico, which owns Frito-Lay. But the company said it has no plans to mess with the chemically enhanced orange of its Doritos or Cheetos,

#Pepsico Unveils Worldâ##s First Plastic Bottle Made Entirely From Plant-based Materials Pepsicos 100%plant-based bottle.

Pepsico Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material, which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-cola

#Pepsico says it is the worlds first bottle of a common type of plastic called PET made entirely of plant-based materials.

senior vice-president of advanced research of Pepsico. The discovery potentially changes the industry standard for plastic packaging.

While Pepsico wouldnt specify the cost to research and design the new bottle, Papalia said it is in the millions of dollars.

Its one of several steps Pepsico has taken recently to reduce its environmental impact. The company created a fully compostable bag for its Sunchips line.

Pepsico says of its 19 biggest brands, those that generate more than $1 billion (dollar figures U s.)in revenue,

Pepsico plans to test the product in 2012 in a few hundred thousand bottles. Once the company is sure it can successfully produce the bottle at that scale,

#Pepsico is Betting Consumers Want to â Snackifyâ##Drinks Tropolis Because healthy food just isnt cool enough for todays youth,

the folks at Pepsico will soon be rolling out snackified,#amped-up to the extreme!##pureed fruit in the form of something called Tropolis.

Pepsicos Tropicana unit is rolling out apple, grape and cherry Tropolis pouches in test markets in the Midwest next month, at $2. 49 to $3. 49 for a four-pack.

but only after GMO proponents like Monsanto General mills Pepsico Dupont Hershey Cargill Kellogg Hormel Kraft Mars Goya Ocean Spray Nestle and other industrial food

Robert ter Kuile, a senior director for environmental sustainability issues at Pepsico, based in Purchase,

Pepsico is always looking for data to evaluate its supplies of corn, potatoes, oranges and oats,

'which bring multinational companies such as beverage firm Pepsico, agricultural biotech giant Monsanto and retailer Walmart together with producers and environmentalists to negotiate environmental certification standards for products such as soya beans, palm oil,

and food manufacturers Coca-cola, Pepsico and Nestlã have contributed each more than $1 Â million to the campaign;

formerly of Apple and Pepsico, who met Vu at a dinner and received an impromptu product demonstration.

Among the big businesses focused on its developments are representatives of Bayer Cropscience, General mills, Pepsico and Walmart.

Serving on the panel were Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond, Desert Research Foundation of Namibia director Viviane Victorine Kinyaga, Pepsico chief executive Indra Nooyi and Unilever chief executive Paul Polman.

Indra Nooyi Pepsico is a $60 billion company in 200 countries in world. It's one of the largest seed-to-shelf companies in the world (potatoes

Pepsico has improved potato crop yields while decreasing the amount of water needed for irrigation. That's just one of the high-level takeaways shared by Ian Hope-Johnstone, director of agricultural sustainability for Pepsico global operations, with whom

I recently chatted about mobile technology and its agricultural uses. The icrop experiment--highly dependent on various mobile technologies including notebooks,

handhelds and wireless sensors--is being spearheaded by Pepsico and Cambridge university on a pilot basis, as part of the food company's overriding agenda to develop an integrated crop management system that will help the company reduce the carbon emissions

So-called precision agriculture of the type being embraced by Pepsico could help reduce water usage by up to 50 percent

The list of companies that have collaborated with d. school on projects include Visa, Motorola, Google and Pepsico. And recruiters at companies such as Google,

Beverage giants offer water footprint insightsin conjunction with last week's worldwide push to champion sustainable water consumption practices, Pepsico and the Coca-cola Company have published extensive

The Pepsico one, entitled Water Stewardship: Good for Business. Good for Society, amplifies the water stewardship goals that the company outlined in April 2010

Another big theme for Pepsico is water balance, that is, the idea that it can use technology

This year Pepsico (and Coca-cola, too, as you'll read in a minute) started working with the Nature Conservancy on initiatives focused on water balance.

Folks like Coca-cola, Pepsico, Inbev, Nestle, Heineken. But they're also folks like GE. We've set a goal of 25 percent reduction across our company.

Veolia offer twist on smart water management The philosophy behind Molson Coors beerprint Tech giant LG extends into water treatment Pepsico,

management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks

. beverage giant Pepsico has developed a green bottle that is designed to be recyclable AND that is made from plant-sourced materials including switch grass, orange peels and potato peels.

and Pepsico. The new bottle will use the bio-based materials to reproduce the molecular structure that is used in petroleum-based polyethylene terephthalate (aka PET),

This isn't the first innovative thing that Pepsico has done with packaging. Several of its product lines, including Aquafina

The real target of the new Pepsico bottle, of course, is the Coca-cola Plantbottle, which was licensed recently by Heinz to replace its classic ketchup bottle.

After Pepsico gets the bottle on shelves with its own products, I wouldn't be surprise to see it move to license the technology to other consumer products companies.

Pepsico goes off the water gridthe potato is about 80 percent water. The potato chip? Well, by the time the potato becomes a crispy chip,

That's what Pepsico hopes to do in four of its Walkers'Crisp factories in the United kingdom. Walkers boasts that all of its potatoes come from The british countryside,

The Guardian quotes Walter Todd, Pepsico's vice president of sustainability in Europe: Water is still an emerging issue.

According to Pepsico, Walkers'biggest factory cut its water usage by 42 percent between 2001 and 2007.

Pepsico says it will also experiment with different types of potato that require less water to grow.

Pepsico invests in growing healthy snacks segment in Mexicomexico CITY--Pepsico has chosen one of the world's fattest nations-Mexico-as a home base for the development of its global healthy snacks initiative.

The food and beverages company is pumping $30 million annually into its Mexican subsidiary in an effort to bolster the health profile of its products

and marketers of healthier snacks are hoping to piggyback on the promotion from the public sector. Pepsico's new $20 million Global Center for Innovation in Baking

and the creation of innovative options that meet changing consumer preferences both in Mexico and globally, said Pepsico Mexico spokeswoman Monica Bauer in an emailed response to questions.

The center is part of Pepsico's commitment announced in 2009, to invest $3 billion in Mexico over five years.

Pepsico Mexico, which operates as Sabritas SRL de CV, produces the top five selling brands in the Mexican sweet and savory snacks category;

But Pepsico says its Doritos and Ruffles snack brands have 30 percent to 35 percent less fat than traditional varieties.

Pepsico's leadership has come under fire recently for training its focus on nutritious products at what critics say has been at the expense of its core soda business.

who took the helm of Pepsico in 2006, has set a goal of more than doubling revenue from healthier snacks to $30 billion by 2020.

Pepsico has reduced spending on the marketing of its soda brands, and soda sales have flagged. The company is undergoing a strategic review of its businesses;

Pepsico's investment in Mexico, however, points to the potential growth market that Latin america represents in the nutritious snacks category.

Pepsico rolls out intelligent crop management tech to farmerspepsico on Tuesday announced that it would deploy its new intelligent crop management technology to its farmers around the world.

said Pepsico U k. and Ireland president Â Richard Evans in a statement. The American food and beverage giant--Quaker

That's important because of Pepsico's largesse in the agriculture space. In the U k. alone, it's the largest purchaser of domestic potatoes and a top buyer of local oats and apples.