slide 2 talks about the basic story line of pepsi co -it was founded by a man called caleb bradham who started the company a Pesi-cola it later merged with fritto lay to form Pepsi co slides 4-5 an introduction to PepsiCo slide 6 mergers and acquisitions of pepsi co slide 8 talks about competition slide 9-10 in the late 1800s the cola wars had officialy begun in 1975 the wars reaches a whole new level as pepsi starts the blind taste test results of which hampered sales of coca-cola in the 1980s pepsi started making their own mistakes and high profile errors through their bran ambassadors which included MJ, David Bowie and Madonna in 1990s syringes were found in cans of pepsi which ruined their image in the public eye, coke capitalized on this. in 2000 pepsi shifted their focus to health products and hence bought Quaker oats, by this time coke was number one and Pepsi number 2 in the late 2000s pepsico decided to fight back an their campaign "summer time is pepsi time" proved to be disastrous for them as the showed more of coke in thier ads in 2011 pepsi officially lost second place to diet cola slide 11-12 PepsicCo and its rivals market share slide 14 speaks about various marketing strategies of pepsi slide 15 CSR initiatives by Pepsi slide 16 sources