PepsiCo Inc.

PepsiCo Inc. is one of the world’s largest food and beverage corporations, headquartered in Purchase, New York. With annual revenues over $90 billion and operations in more than 200 countries, it owns a vast portfolio of brands, including Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, and SodaStream. Its global supply chains and marketing dominance make it one of the most recognizable consumer goods conglomerates worldwide.

PepsiCo has been repeatedly criticized for its environmental and labour footprint. The company is among the top corporate plastic polluters, producing billions of single-use bottles annually, and its reliance on industrial agriculture drives pesticide use, water depletion, and deforestation. In labour sourcing, watchdogs have linked PepsiCo to child labour in palm oil supply chains and poor working conditions in sugar production. The company also has a history of union-busting and precarious employment practices across multiple regions.

Politically, PepsiCo profits from and reinforces colonial economies. Through SodaStream, its Israeli subsidiary, it became directly entangled with settlement industries in occupied Palestinian territory, normalizing production on stolen land before relocating inside Israel. PepsiCo has faced sustained pressure from boycott movements for sustaining and profiting from this structure, alongside its broader corporate record of ecological destruction and labour exploitation.