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=== Rise in popularity ===
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due to the vast intake of pepsi that lewis beeby takes he has become "PEPSI MAN" he drinks gallons of pepsi a day and will most certainly die from it soon. He also drives a Pepsi mobile to college, it is also known as the moving toilet. This is because whilst on it, he can drink pepsi and go to the toilet when he wants to. His car, a Vauxhall shit wagon, runs entirely on Pepsi so as you can imagine, the company and Lewis are very close business partners.
Due to the vast intake of pepsi that lewis beeby takes he has become "PEPSI MAN" he drinks gallons of pepsi a day and will most certainly die from it soon. He also drives a Pepsi mobile to college, it is also known as the moving toilet. This is because whilst on it, he can drink pepsi and go to the toilet when he wants to. His car, a Vauxhall shit wagon, runs entirely on Pepsi so as you can imagine, the company and Lewis are very close business partners. The recent adverts that haven't yet been shown on tv, have Lewis himself starring in them.


During the [[Great Depression]], Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1929 of a 12-[[ounce]] bottle. Initially priced at 10 [[Cent (currency)|cent]]s, sales were slow, but when the price was slashed to five cents, sales increased substantially. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the [[jingle]] "Pepsi cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a [[Nickel (United States coin)|nickel]], too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you," Pepsi encouraged price-watching consumers to switch, obliquely referring to the Coca-Cola standard of six ounces a bottle for the price of five cents (a nickel), instead of the 12 ounces Pepsi sold at the same price.<ref name="alot">[http://www.OldRadioFun.com/downloads/Commercials.19xx.xx.xx_Pepsi_Cola.mp3 1939 Radio Commercial (Twice as Much for a Nickel)]</ref> Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi's status. In 1936 alone 500,000,000 bottles of Pepsi were consumed. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi-Cola's profits doubled.<ref name="coke at home">Jones, Eleanor & Ritzmann, Florian. [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/coke/coke1.html "Coca-Cola at Home"]. Retrieved [[June 17]], [[2006]].</ref>
During the [[Great Depression]], Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1929 of a 12-[[ounce]] bottle. Initially priced at 10 [[Cent (currency)|cent]]s, sales were slow, but when the price was slashed to five cents, sales increased substantially. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the [[jingle]] "Pepsi cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a [[Nickel (United States coin)|nickel]], too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you," Pepsi encouraged price-watching consumers to switch, obliquely referring to the Coca-Cola standard of six ounces a bottle for the price of five cents (a nickel), instead of the 12 ounces Pepsi sold at the same price.<ref name="alot">[http://www.OldRadioFun.com/downloads/Commercials.19xx.xx.xx_Pepsi_Cola.mp3 1939 Radio Commercial (Twice as Much for a Nickel)]</ref> Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi's status. In 1936 alone 500,000,000 bottles of Pepsi were consumed. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi-Cola's profits doubled.<ref name="coke at home">Jones, Eleanor & Ritzmann, Florian. [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/coke/coke1.html "Coca-Cola at Home"]. Retrieved [[June 17]], [[2006]].</ref>

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Pepsi-Cola
File:Pepsi.svg
TypeCola
ManufacturerPepsiCo.
Country of origin United States
Introduced16 June 1903
Related productsCoca-Cola
RC Cola
Dr. Pepper
Inca-Cola
Websitewww.pepsi.com Edit this on Wikidata

Pepsi-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores, restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years since 1903, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), Pepsi Raw, Pepsi Retro in Mexico, Pepsi One, and Pepsi Ice Cucumber in Japan.

History

Origins

THE BEEBS DRINK Pepsi was first made in New Bern, North Carolina, in the United States in the early 1890s by pharmacist Caleb Bradham. In 1898, "Brad's drink" was changed to "Pepsi-Cola" and later trademarked on June 16, 1903.[1] There are several theories on the origin of the word "pepsi".

The only two discussed within the current PepsiCo website are the following:

  1. Caleb Bradham bought the name "Pep Kola" from a local competitor and changed it to Pepsi-Cola.
  2. "Pepsi-Cola" is an anagram for "Episcopal" - a large church across the street from Bradham's drugstore. There is a plaque at the site of the original drugstore documenting this, though PepsiCo has denied this theory.

The word Pepsi comes from the Greek word "pepsi" (πέψη), which is a medical term, describing the food dissolving process within one's stomach. It is also a medical term, that describes a problem with one's stomach to dissolve foods properly.

Another theory is that Caleb Bradham and his customers simply thought the name sounded good or the fact that the drink had some kind of "pep" in it because it was a carbonated drink, they gave it the name "Pepsi".

It was made of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils, and kola nuts. Whether the original recipe included the enzyme pepsin is disputed.[2][3]

In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore into a rented warehouse. That year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next year, Pepsi was sold in six-ounce bottles and sales increased to 19,848 gallons. In 1924, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the original design of 1905. In 1926, the logo was changed again. In 1929, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield endorsed Pepsi-Cola in newspaper ads as "A bully drink...refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race".

In 1929, the Pepsi-Cola Company went bankrupt during the Great Depression- in large part due financial losses incurred by speculating on wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War I. Assets were sold and Roy C. Megargel bought the Pepsi trademark.[4] Eight years later, the company went bankrupt again. Pepsi's assets were then purchased by Charles Guth, the President of Loft Inc. Loft was a candy manufacturer with retail stores that contained soda fountains. He sought to replace Coca-Cola at his stores' fountains after Coke refused to give him a discount on syrup. Guth then had Loft's chemists reformulate the Pepsi-Cola syrup formula.

Rise in popularity

Due to the vast intake of pepsi that lewis beeby takes he has become "PEPSI MAN" he drinks gallons of pepsi a day and will most certainly die from it soon. He also drives a Pepsi mobile to college, it is also known as the moving toilet. This is because whilst on it, he can drink pepsi and go to the toilet when he wants to. His car, a Vauxhall shit wagon, runs entirely on Pepsi so as you can imagine, the company and Lewis are very close business partners. The recent adverts that haven't yet been shown on tv, have Lewis himself starring in them.

During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1929 of a 12-ounce bottle. Initially priced at 10 cents, sales were slow, but when the price was slashed to five cents, sales increased substantially. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the jingle "Pepsi cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a nickel, too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you," Pepsi encouraged price-watching consumers to switch, obliquely referring to the Coca-Cola standard of six ounces a bottle for the price of five cents (a nickel), instead of the 12 ounces Pepsi sold at the same price.[5] Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi's status. In 1936 alone 500,000,000 bottles of Pepsi were consumed. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi-Cola's profits doubled.[6]

Pepsi's success under Guth came while the Loft Candy business was faltering. Since he had initially used Loft's finances and facilities to establish the new Pepsi success, the near-bankrupt Loft Company sued Guth for possession of the Pepsi-Cola company. A long legal battle, Guth v. Loft, then ensued, with the case reaching the Delaware Supreme Court and ultimately ending in a loss for Guth. Loft now owned Pepsi, and the two companies did a merger, then immediately spun off the Loft company.[citation needed]

Niche marketing

1940s advertisement specifically targeting African Americans.

Walter Mack was named the new President of Pepsi-Cola and guided the company through the 1940s. Mack, who supported progressive causes, noticed that the company's strategy of using advertising for a general audience either ignored African Americans or used ethnic stereotypes in portraying blacks. He realized African Americans were an untapped niche market and that Pepsi stood to gain market share by targeting its advertising directly towards them.[7] To this end, he hired Hennan Smith, an advertising executive "from the Negro newspaper field"[8] to lead an all-black sales team, which had to be cut due to the onset of World War II. In 1947, Mack resumed his efforts, hiring Edward F. Boyd to lead a twelve-man team. They came up with advertising portraying black Americans in a positive light, such as one with a smiling mother holding a six pack of Pepsi while her son (a young Ron Brown, who grew up to be Secretary of Commerce[9]) reaches up for one. Another ad campaign, titled "Leaders in Their Fields", profiled twenty prominent African Americans such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche and photographer Gordon Parks.

Boyd also led a sales team composed entirely of African Americans around the country to promote Pepsi. Racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were still in place throughout much of the U.S., so Boyd's team faced a great deal of discrimination as a result,[8] from insults by Pepsi co-workers to threats by Ku Klux Klan.[9] On the other hand, they were able to use racism as a selling point, attacking Coke's reluctance to hire blacks and support by the chairman of Coke to segregationist Governor of Georgia Herman Talmadge.[7] As a result, Pepsi's market share as compared to Coke's shot up dramatically. After the sales team visited Chicago, Pepsi's share in the city overtook that of Coke for the first time.[7]

This focus on the African American market caused some consternation within the company and among its affiliates. They did not want to seem focused on black customers for fear white customers would be pushed away.[7] In a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Mack tried to assuage the 500 bottlers in attendance by pandering to them, saying, "We don't want it to become known as the nigger drink."[10] After Mack left the company in 1950, support for the black sales team faded and it was cut.

Marketing

File:Pepsicup.jpg
A large advertisement made to resemble a Pepsi cup at the theme park, Nickelodeon Universe inside the Mall of America.
File:Pepsinewcan.jpg
The first of many new designs of Pepsi cans which were released in 2007.

In 1975, Pepsi introduced the Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign where PepsiCo set up a blind tasting between Pepsi-Cola and rival Coca-Cola. During these blind taste tests the majority of participants picked Pepsi as the better tasting of the two soft drinks. PepsiCo took great advantage of the campaign with television commercials reporting the test results to the public.[11].

In 1996, PepsiCo launched the highly successful Pepsi Stuff marketing strategy. By 2002, the strategy was cited by Promo Magazine as one of 16 "Ageless Wonders" that "helped redefine promotion marketing."[12]

In 2007, PepsiCo redesigned their cans for the fourteenth time, and for the first time, included more than thirty different backgrounds on each can, introducing a new background every three weeks.[13]

Celebrity endorsers

Main article: Pepsi spokespersons

Like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and its associated beverages have had various celebrity endorsers and continue to use them.


Slogans

  • 1939: "Twice as Much for a Nickel"
  • 1950: "More Bounce to the Ounce"
  • 1950: "Any Weather is Pepsi Weather"
  • 1957: "The Light Refreshment"
  • 1958: "Be Sociable, Have a Pepsi"
  • 1961: "Now It's Pepsi for Those Who Think Young"
  • 1963: "Come Alive, You're in the Pepsi Generation".
  • 1967: "(Taste that beats the others cold) Pepsi Pours It On".
  • 1969: "You've Got a Lot to Live, and Pepsi's Got a Lot to Give"
  • 1975: "Have a Pepsi Day"
  • 1977: "Join the Pepsi People (Feeling Free)"
  • 1980: "Catch That Pepsi Spirit" David Lucas composer
  • 1981: "Pepsi's got your taste for life"
  • 1983: "Pepsi Now! Take the Challenge!"
  • 1984: "Pepsi. The Choice of a New Generation" (Commercial with Michael Jackson, featuring Pepsi version of Billie Jean)
  • 1986: "We've Got The Taste" (Commercial with Tina Turner)
  • 1990: "You got the right one Baby UH HUH" ( sung by Ray Charles )
  • 1991: "Gotta Have It"/"Chill Out"
  • 1992: "Be Young, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi"
  • 1995: "Nothing Else is a Pepsi"
  • 1996: "Pepsi:There's nothing official about it" (During the Wills World Cup(Cricket) held in India/Pakistan/Srilanka)
  • 1997: "GeneratioNext"." With the Spice Girls "
  • 1998: "Yeh Dil Mange More"(In Urdu meaning "My heart wants more")
  • 1999: "Ask for More"/"The Joy of Pepsi-Cola" (Commercial with Britney Spears/Commercial with Mary J. Blige)
  • 2003: "It's the Cola"/"Dare for More"
  • 2005: "Wild Thing"/"Ask For More" (With Jennifer Lopez & Beyoncé Knowles)
  • 2006: "Why You Doggin' Me"/"Taste the one that's forever young" Commercial featuring Mary J. Blige
  • 2007: "More Happy"/"Taste the one that's forever young" (Michael Alexander)
  • 2008: "Yeh hai Youngistaan Meri Jaan!" (India)
  • 2008: "Pepsi Stuff" Super Bowl Commercial (Justin Timberlake)

Bans in India

See also: PepsiCo - Criticisms

Pepsi was banned from import in India in 1970 for having refused to release the list of its ingredients.[citation needed] In 1988, the ban was lifted[citation needed], with Pepsi arriving on the market shortly afterwards.[14] In 2003 and again in 2006, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-governmental organization in New Delhi, claimed that soda drinks produced by manufacturers in India, including both Pepsi and Coca-Cola, had dangerously high levels of pesticides in their drinks.[15] [16] Both PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company maintain that their drinks are safe for consumption and have published newspaper advertisements that say pesticide levels in their products are less than those in other foods such as tea, fruit and dairy products.[17] In the Indian state of Kerala, sale and production of Pepsi-Cola, along with other soft drinks, were banned in 2006[18] following partial bans on the drinks in schools, colleges and hospitals in five other Indian states.[18] On September 22, 2006, the High Court in Kerala overturned the Kerala ban ruling that only the central government can ban food products.[19]

Health concerns

Pepsi and similar products contain large amounts of sugar. Excessive sugar intake is thought to be a contributing factor in the development of certain types of diabetes. Sugar is also a leading contributor to tooth decay.

Rivalry with Coca-Cola

Main article: Cola Wars

According to Consumer Reports, in the 1970s, the rivalry continued to heat up the market. Pepsi conducted blind taste tests in stores, in what was called the "Pepsi Challenge". These tests suggested that more consumers preferred the taste of Pepsi (which is believed to have more lemon oil, less orange oil, and uses vanillin rather than vanilla) to Coke. The sales of Pepsi started to climb, and Pepsi kicked off the "Challenge" across the nation.

In 1985, The Coca-Cola Company, amid much publicity, changed its formula. Some authorities believe that New Coke, as the reformulated drink came to be known, was invented specifically in response to the Pepsi Challenge. However, a consumer backlash led to Coca-Cola quickly introducing a modified version of the original formula (removing the expensive Haitian lime oil and changing the sweetener to corn syrup) as Coke "Classic".

Comedian Dave Chappelle starred in ads for both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, an act which drew controversy.[citation needed] When referring to it in his show, Chappelle said, "I can't even taste the difference: all I know is Pepsi paid me most recently, so it tastes better."

In the U.S., Pepsi's total market share was about 31.7 percent in 2004, while Coke's was about 43.1 percent.[20]

Overall, Coca-Cola continues to outsell Pepsi in almost all areas of the world. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan (Pepsi has been a dominant sponsor of the Pakistan cricket team since the 1990s), the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Prince Edward Island and the U.S. states of Michigan and South Carolina are the exceptions.[21]

Pepsi had long been the drink of Canadian Francophones and it continues to hold its dominance by relying on local Québécois celebrities (especially Claude Meunier, of La Petite Vie fame) to sell its product.[22] "Pepsi" eventually became an offensive nickname for Francophones.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). In 1988, PepsiCo gained entry to India by creating a joint venture with the Punjab government-owned Punjab Agro Industrial Corporation (PAIC) and Voltas India Limited. This joint venture marketed and sold Lehar Pepsi until 1991 when the use of foreign brands was allowed; PepsiCo bought out its partners and ended the joint venture in 1994. In 1993, The Coca-Cola Company returned in pursuance of India's Liberalization policy.[23] In 2005, The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo together held 95% market share of soft-drink sales in India. Coca-Cola India's market share was 52.5%.[24]

In Russia, Pepsi initially had a larger market share than Coke but it was undercut once the Cold War ended. In 1972, Pepsico company struck a barter agreement with the then government of the Soviet Union, in which Pepsico was granted exportation and Western marketing rights to Stolichnaya vodka in exchange for importation and Soviet marketing of Pepsi-Cola. [25] [26] This exchange led to Pepsi-Cola being the first foreign product sanctioned for sale in the U.S.S.R.. [27]

Reminiscent of the way that Coca-Cola became a cultural icon and its global spread spawned words like "coca colonization", Pepsi-Cola and its relation to the Soviet system turned it into an icon. In the early 1990s, the term, "Pepsi-stroika", began appearing as a pun on "perestroika", the reform policy of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. Critics viewed the policy as a lot of fizz without substance and as an attempt to usher in Western products in deals there with the old elites. Pepsi, as one of the first American products in the Soviet Union, became a symbol of that relationship and the Soviet policy.[28] This was reflected in Russian author Victor Pelevin's book "Generation P".

In 1992, following the Soviet collapse, Coca-Cola was introduced to the Russian market. As it came to be associated with the new system, and Pepsi to the old, Coca-Cola rapidly captured a significant market share that might otherwise have required years to achieve. By July 2005, Coca-Cola enjoyed a market share of 19.4 percent, followed by Pepsi with 13 percent.[29]

Rarely, though, has the Coke-Pepsi rivalry gone so far as in Thailand, where it has now led to two deaths (source: [1]).

Ingredients

Amount per 100mL
Energy 196.5 kJ
Fat 0 g
Sodium 0.98 mg
Carbohydrates 11.74 g
Sugar 11.04 g
Protein 0 g
Caffeine 10 mg

Pepsi-Cola contains basic ingredients found in most other similar drinks including carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, colorings, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, and natural flavors. The caffeine-free Pepsi-Cola contains the same ingredients minus the caffeine.

The original Pepsi-Cola recipe was available from documents filed with the court at the time that the Pepsi-Cola Company went bankrupt in 1929. The original formula contained neither cola nor caffeine.





Trivia

  • The Pepsi logo looks similar to the symbol on South Korea's flag.

Competitors

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Pepsi World - FAQs - ADS & HISTORY
  2. ^ Mike Gange, Pop Culture Paraphernalia, The Encyclopedia of Pepsi-Cola Collectibles
  3. ^ "The History of Pepsi Cola", Mary Bellis, about.com
  4. ^ "The History of Pepsi-Cola", sodamuseum.bigstep.com paragraph 8
  5. ^ 1939 Radio Commercial (Twice as Much for a Nickel)
  6. ^ Jones, Eleanor & Ritzmann, Florian. "Coca-Cola at Home". Retrieved June 17, 2006.
  7. ^ a b c d Martin, Douglas (May 6 2007). "Edward F. Boyd Dies at 92; Marketed Pepsi to Blacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ a b Archer, Michelle (January 22 2007). "Pepsi's challenge in 1940s: Color barrier". USA Today. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |sandy url= ignored (help)
  9. ^ a b Stewart, Jocelyn Y (May 5 2007). "Edward Boyd, 92; Pepsi ad man broke color barriers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2007-05-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Tavis, Smiley (February 27 2007). "Edward Boyd" (interview). PBS. Retrieved 2007-05-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ SODAmuseum.com "The History of Pepsi-Cola", sodamuseum.bigstep.com, paragraph 31
  12. ^ PepsiCo - Company - Honors (2002), Promo Magazine, 2002.
  13. ^ Pepsi Can Gallery
  14. ^ PepsiCo India
  15. ^ Pepsi, Coke contain pesticides: CSE
  16. ^ Pesticides in Soft Drinks(Pepsico and Coca-Cola) In-Depth Section
  17. ^ Cola sales down 10% on state bans
  18. ^ a b Indian state bans Pepsi and Coke
  19. ^ Thomas, V.M. Indian state lifts cola ban
  20. ^ "Beverage Digest Press Release", Beverage Digest, March 4 2005 (PDF)
  21. ^ [http://www.strategymag.com/articles/magazine/20041015/vive.html "Vive la difference 'Does that mean I have to have a separate campaign?"], Strategy Magazine, October 2004
  22. ^ "The Pepsi 'Meunier' Campaign" (PDF). Canadian Advertising Success Stories (Cassies) Case Library. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  23. ^ "India: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases", The Water Dossier, 14 March 2005
  24. ^ "Fizzical Facts: Coke claims 60% mkt share in India", Times News Network, August 5 2005
  25. ^ Robert Laing (2006-03-28). "Pepsi's comeback, Part II". Mail & Guardian online. Retrieved 2007-07-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  26. ^ Free-Essays.us - Coke Vs. Pepsi
  27. ^ "PepsiCo Company History (1972)". PepsiCo, Inc. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  28. ^ The word first appeared in an exhibit in the Harvard University Law School Library in December 1990 to February 1991, then in several articles and books by anthropologist David Lempert, who coined the phrase. Most notable is the third book inside the two volume set, "Pepsi-stroika" in Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy, Columbia University Press/ Eastern European Monographs, 1996.
  29. ^ "Coke Versus Pepsi, Santa Versus Moroz", The Moscow Times, December 30 2005

References

  • Beverage World Magazine, January 1998, "Celebrating a Century of Refreshment: Pepsi - The First 100 Years"
  • Stoddard, Bob. Pepsi-Cola - 100 Years (1997), General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • "History & Milestones" (1996), Pepsi packet
  • Louis, J.C. & Yazijian, Harvey Z. "The Cola Wars" (1980), Everest House, Publishers, New York, NY, USA

External links

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