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Review PBNA’s Structure and Portfolio: PepsiCo should evaluate the potential refranchising of PBNA’s operationally intensive bottling network - as its closest peer has and as PepsiCo itself has done in years past - to allow each business to focus on its core", "attrs": null, "subkind": "numbered", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "70f8070f-14d7-4120-a3da-92d46ab9855f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "PepsiCo’s business comprises three segments: PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA), the formidable challenger to Coca-Cola; PepsiCo Foods North America (PFNA), a market-leading and highly profitable snacking franchise anchored by Frito-Lay; and a rapidly expanding International segment with a significant long-term growth runway.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "13f0612b-2a88-4469-a2b5-ef829978551f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.12, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.45 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "This lack of strategic clarity, decelerating growth and eroding profitability in the North American food and beverage businesses has obscured PepsiCo’s enormous potential, including the significant attractiveness of its fast-growing International business. The result is that PepsiCo – long admired as one of the world’s most respected and well-run CPG businesses – has become a dramatic underperformer. While unfortunate, this disappointing trajectory has created a historic opportunity: With the right mindset and an appropriately ambitious turnaround plan, PepsiCo today represents a rare chance to revitalize a leading global enterprise and unlock significant shareholder value.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "3443c9ea-103c-47d5-9fbe-0d7b2c7cb326", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.06, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.74 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "A sharper, focused and more competitive PBNA would be fully equipped to take back market share, accelerate revenue growth and deliver meaningful margin expansion. And a leaner, stronger PFNA would have greater flexibility to reinvest in proven brands with enduring consumer loyalty, while also delivering an attractive financial profile. We believe an appropriately ambitious plan – to be clearly communicated, with updated financial targets – comprises the following elements:", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "85b46f5c-9700-404e-8064-6ac3b1929231", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.18 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "As our presentation makes clear, despite its strengths, PBNA has underperformed its peers for more than a decade on both growth and margins. This long-term underperformance stems from several related strategic missteps, including self-inflicted share losses in soda, an underperforming vertically integrated bottling structure and a proliferation of new brands and SKUs that has strained focus and execution.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "af9a833a-fa7f-4c99-869d-097d7e70bc1c", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.28 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "For years, the disappointing performance of PepsiCo’s beverage business was more than offset by its resilient and high-performing foods business, PFNA. More recently, however, PFNA has begun to falter. Growth has slowed due to a challenging consumer backdrop and series of PepsiCo-specific issues, while substantial increases in investment spending well beyond the needs of the current demand environment have meaningfully compressed profit margins. We support management’s recently announced initiatives to streamline the cost base, but given the degree to which PFNA’s performance has eroded relative to its history and peer performance, we believe more action is warranted in order to perform to its potential – both in terms of realigning the cost base as well as evaluating other opportunities to improve efficiency and focus.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "e5b10546-56c3-4ba1-b04e-c3595c08e1f3", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.06, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.66 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Fortunately for PepsiCo, its problems are within its power to address. 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