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[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Not quite.

Dr Pepper is definitely wrong. Fully independent. Pepsi provides distribution in some markets, but that’s it.

Starbucks is also wrong. Pepsi distributes bottled fraps through a joint venture, but they are separate companies.

Ready to drink Lipton drinks come from Pepsi, but the brand it not owned by Pepsi (teabags and other).

Tazo was sold to Unilever in 2017 but then also sold again in 2022 to the same parent company of Lipton.

Ocean spray is a farmer coop, Pepsi just does distribution.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

I don’t see it on there so I will add that they own SodaStream, which also happens to be headquartered in Israel.

[-] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

After high school I got a job as a merchandiser for Pepsi Bottling Group. That's when I learned that both Pepsi and Coke distrubute Dr. Pepper in different areas.

If the 20 oz bottles in your area look like this you are in a Coke area, and if they look like this you are in a Pepsi area.

that's also why Dr Pepper can show up on fountains in both Pepsi and Coke aligned fast food places.

[-] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 2 points 1 month ago

Tha Doc gets a piece of everything.

[-] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The Dr Pepper Snapple Group distribution is split between Coke and Pepsi.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This may be outdated but still really scary

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Did my image show up for you? I tried to upload a bigger picture with 10 companies and every brand name they owned

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Your image works fine for me. Idk what they're talking about, these companies are making plenty of profit. (Probably not enough if you ask the shareholders tho)

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

The picture is also from 2012 so I don't know what was bought/sold/merged/divested since then

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Land of Lakes is a farmer-owned co-op...but from 1989 until 2007, Kraft was owned by Phillip Morris (the tobacco company now known as Altria).

Marlboro and EasyMac were corporate cousins.

[-] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

The tobacco companies saw the decline of tobacco sales and rolled into processed foods with all the addiction research they had already been doing.

[-] piningparrot@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Unilever owns Dollar Shave Club since around 2018

[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Like I said in another reply the image is from 2012

[-] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 month ago

It hasn't always been. That is what sucks about this.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

'Breathtaking' Is One Word for Purported Arnell Pepsi Doc

"When I did the Pepsi logo, I told Pepsi that I wanted to go to Asia, to China and Japan, for a month and tuck myself away and just design it and study it and create it," [Arnell Group’s Peter] Arnell said earlier to Ad Age. "There was a lot of research, a lot of consumer data points ... and dialogue that I had with the folks at Pepsi, consumers and retailers. We knew what we were doing."

So what does such a "breathtaking" redesign cost, anyway? Ad Age earlier reported that experts estimate the cost for a top firm to work five months at north of $1 million.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Dr Pepper

I will not stand for this slander, they are independent from Pepsi

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago

But partially owned by Cadbury. The creme egg company.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. (and KFC).

[-] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Somewhere there has to be a store where those 3 are crammed together into one monstrosity.

I now have a purpose in life.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Your best bet is truckstops probably.

[-] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Cool. KFC chicken stuffed crust nacho chalupa with a side of trucker pills, please.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

you want the ones to make your boner bigger, the ones to make your boner smaller, or the ones to make your boner fall off? you know what aisle 2 next to the gummi worms

[-] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Good idea. Test them on some gummy worms.

Also, who has shrooms?

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

"Always has been", my ass. These companies were acquired over time, PepsiCo didn't just own them from the start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Acquisitions_and_divestments

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago

Only when it isn't Coke.

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