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WHEN PEPSCICO announced it was almost doubling its NFL sponsorship from 2012 on the back of additional brands in its portfolio eyebrows were raised in the Frontiers office

COCA-COLA has announced a $4bn investment in China and emerged with comments that shine an uncomfortably harsh light on its home market

PEPSICO'S recent $1bn+ deal with NFL has raised the stakes for the brands involved and put pressure on the company to deliver

AT FIRST GLANCE, the cola wars entered a new dimension this week as Pepsico extended its sponsorship of the NFL in a 10-year deal representing an investment of around $2.3bn

RUSSIA HAS BEEN a graveyard for several global brands – BP, Daimler Chrysler and Siemens have all faced difficulties – so Pepsico’s deal to buy one of the country’s most trusted dairy companies has to …

ALTHOUGH OUTWARD appearances sometimes suggest otherwise, global brands have numerous challenges

PEPSI CONTINUED a long and irreverent tradition of selling against rival Coca-Cola with a new video advert featuring a polar bear drinking its product