Pepsi Bottling Group News

The old Pepsi Bottling Co. plant will soon have a new life as, well, a bottling plant.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Lululemon Athletica Inc., Pall Corp., and Texas Instruments Inc.

PLANO,A Texas A beverage maker has agreed to license certain brands to one of the largest food and beverage companies.

PepsiCo, the nation's second largest soft drink maker, will pay Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.

The National Audit Office said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown s government was justified to spend the unprecedented amount on rescuing the banks, which went into meltdown after the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2007.

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.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., giant insurer based in Minnetonka, received a judge's preliminary approval of a $350 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

Oil producer and explorer Petrominerales Ltd. has laid out plans to expand its drilling activities in Latin America next year.

Petrominerales Ltd. , a 67% owned subsidiary of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd.

EL SEGUNDO, CALIF.: Satellite TV provider DirecTV has selected Michael White as its new president and CEO.

DirecTV Group chose the vice chairman of PepsiCo 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.

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Starting next month, OPIRG and the SCS will begin the second phase of a sustainability audit at Brock.

Pepsi Cola, the original drink of Pepsico Inc. is an anagram of Episcopal. According to one name derivation theory, the name Pepsi-Cola came about because Caleb Bradham, the pharmacist who created Pepsi on August 28, 1898, had his drugstore across the street from an Episcopal Church.

Throughout numerous buildings projects announced and underway at Brock University, students are being provided more and more learning space and facilities while they are at school.

PepsiAmericas Inc., the second-largest Pepsi bottler, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit fell 13.1 percent, hurt by falling sales, the stronger dollar and several one-time items.

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