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Companies and Brands
Diet Soda Drinkers Lose More Weight
courtesy of PepsiCoSales of diet soft drinks have been fizzling out for several years running, and the industry has not been able to come up with a way to stop the decline.…
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News
Will the Chicago Cubs Win the World Series?
Image via Floyd Wilde, Flickr.You know the story. The Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908, by far the longest championship drought in baseball. So naturally, fans take this to…
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Companies and Brands
World’s Largest Food Producers Also Among World’s Largest Polluters
ThinkstockIf the world’s 10 largest food producers were a country, that country would be the world’s 25th largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), pumping out more pollutants than Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and…
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Companies and Brands
As Keurig Green Mountain Finds More Coca-Cola Love, Is SodaStream Next?
Keurig Green Mountain is seeing yet another rise this week, a week after positive earnings news. Coca-Cola now has agreed to raise its stake in Keurig to the maximum 16% of the…
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Companies and Brands
Snack Food Sales Boost Pepsi Earnings
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning, due largely to cost-cutting and higher snack-food sales.
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Companies and Brands
Is Pepsi Looking at a Stake in SodaStream?
Israeli business newspaper Calcalist reports that SodaStream International is holding talks related to selling a stake to a large soft-drink maker. Speculation naturally points first to PepsiCo.
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Companies and Brands
Is Coke Worth More Than Pepsi?
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyIs the Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO) worth more than PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP)? It would appear so, at least based on brand value. The subject is, however, more complicated…
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Companies and Brands
What Health Risk in Soda? Coca-Cola Credit Ratings Looking Positive
Coca-Cola is a Dow Jones industrial Average component with shares that have been pressured compared to the broad market. Now we have a positive ratings action from Standard & Poor's.
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Media
Companies Left in a Lurch as Tiger Woods Out of Masters
It's just not CBS Sports that is a loser if Tiger Woods does not play in the Masters Golf Tournament, though without him ratings will be merely pedestrian. Also losing out are…
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Companies and Brands
Diet Pepsi Sales Plunge
courtesy of PepsiCoSoda sales in general have been under siege, mostly because of high sugar and calories levels. Among the brands within the industry, Diet Pepsi has taken a particularly bad beating.…
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Companies and Brands
On Health Risks, Are Coke and Pepsi Still Defensive Stocks?
For years Coca-Cola was considered a key defensive stock to own in a bad market. It is a Dow Jones Industrial Average component after all. Now health concerns over sugar-fizz water are…
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Companies and Brands
Coca-Cola Tops Powerful Brands List
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyOne of the world’s most recognized brand — The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) — topped a new list of the world’s most powerful brands. The soft drink was followed…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Cliffs, Dendreon, Magna, Santander, SunEdison and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The include Coca-Cola, Dendreon, Procter & Gamble, SunEdison and 21st Century Fox.
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Economy
Buffett Optimistic Despite War Talk — Except for on Bitcoin
White House Photo by Pete SouzaWarren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) appeared to shrug off concerns over Russian military movement in Ukraine’s Crimean region Monday and offered a bullish outlook…
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Companies and Brands
Can SodaStream Stage a Real Recovery Alone?
ThinkstockSodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) is trading higher after the beverage machine maker’s earnings report. Oddly enough, the stock was having a very hard determining what it wanted to do when the…