PepsiAmericas News

Minneapolis-based PepsiAmericas Inc. and Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., of Somers, N.Y., won preliminary approval to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by investors challenging a buyout bid by PepsiCo Inc.

DirecTV Group Inc. chose the vice chairman of PepsiCo Inc. as its chief executive Wednesday, filling a vacuum created when its former chief left just as the nation's largest satellite TV provider was in the midst of a spinoff.

Fitch Ratings expects ratings for U.S. beverage companies to remain stable in 2010.

Pepsi Jamaica general manager Andrew Reid has said the joint venture, which sees 82 per cent of its parent company's shares being transferred to Central America Beverage Corporation has forced Pepsi Jamaica "to review and examine" its existing strategies.

A judge has tossed out a decision - for now at least - that could have cost PepsiCo Inc.

Ecolab : Posted third-quarter net income of $145 million and revenue of $1.55 billion, vs.

On an adjusted basis earnings were 52 cents a share. Sales were $1.13 billion compared to $1.33 billion.

BLUE BELL, Pa.-- --Unisys Corporation today reported third-quarter 2009 net income of $61.1 million, or $1.48 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $34.7 million, or... CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- --Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated announced today that treatment with telaprevir-based regimens in Study 107 resulted in high sustained viral ...

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc topped profit expectations and raised its 2009 forecast on Wednesday, while rival bottler PepsiAmericas Inc missed analysts' earnings forecasts and cut its outlook.

PepsiAmericas Inc. lowered its full-year adjusted profit outlook Wednesday, saying it expects factors pressuring its business - such as the recession - to continue.

Wyndham Worldwide Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!wyn /quotes/nls/wyn said Wednesday its third-quarter net income dropped to $104 million, or 57 cents a share, from $142 million, or 80 cents a share, in the same quarter last year.

The European Union on Tuesday approved the proposed takeover by PepsiCo Inc. of its two top bottling companies for $7.8 billion.

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PepsiAmericas, Inc. today announced that its third quarter 2009 earnings conference call will be webcast live over the internet on Wednesday, October 28 at 10 a.m. CDT .

The top ten stories published on just-drinks this week: PepsiCo bottling latest US: PepsiCo to form new bottling giant PepsiCo is to create a new soft drinks bottler named PepsiCo Bottling North America, following its US$7.8bn deal to take full control of, and merge, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas .

Tuesday's session will likely be a quiet one with little scheduled in the way of corporate earnings and a lack of any economic data.

PepsiCo Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter profit rose despite a small decline in revenue due to improved productivity across its food and beverage portfolio.

PepsiCo's $6 billion bid to buy its two largest bottlers should make the owner of the Gatorade, Naked juices and Aquafina brands more nimble in a landscape where soft drinks have declined in popularity in favor of healthier options like water and juices.

In anticipation of the previously-announced mergers with its two largest bottlers, The Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas , PepsiCo today announced plans to form a new entity comprising the bottling businesses, effective upon closing of the mergers.

PepsiCo announced Monday that it will combine operations in North America of Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas into a new unit.