PepsiAmericas Inc. (PAS)

PepsiAmericas, Inc. engages in the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of beverage products in the United States, central and eastern Europe, and the Caribbean. The company sells various brands under licenses from PepsiCo, Inc. or PepsiCo joint ventures. It offers its products under the Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Lipton Iced Tea, Toma Water, 7UP, Desnoes and Geddes, and Tropicana brand names. The company also manufactures, packages, sells, and distributes its own brands, such as Sandora, Sadochok, and Toma In addition, it distributes snack food products in Trinidad and Tobago, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Ukraine. Further, the company, through a joint venture agreement, holds interest in Sandora LLC that manufactures and distributes various juice brands. It distributes its products through supermarkets, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores, gas stations, small grocery stores, dollar stores, drug stores, restaurants, cafeterias, and vending machines. PepsiAmericas has a strategic joint venture with Central America Beverage Corporation in Central America and the Caribbean. The company was founded in 1962 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For the nine months ended 30 September 2006, PepsiAmericas, Inc.'s revenues rose 5% to $2.98B. Net income fell 16% to $132.2M. Revenues reflect higher income generated from the acquisition of QABCL, a rise in sales volume and an increase in net pricing. Net income was offset by increased raw material costs, higher utility costs, a rise in severance costs, increased advertising & marketing costs and higher interest expense.