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PepsiCo to cut 8,700 jobs
Feb 9, 2012, 14:14 GMT
New York - PepsiCo is to cut 8,700 jobs, or 3 per cent of its work force, the beverage and snack foods company announced on Thursday.
The company, makers of brands such as Pepsi, Lipton, Doritos and Lay's, expects to save 1.5 billion dollars and channel some of the money into advertising.
'2012 will be a year of transition, one in which we will make the right investments to position PepsiCo properly to achieve long-term high-single-digit core constant currency earnings per share growth,' Hugh Johnston, PepsiCo chief financial officer, said in a statement.
In the last year, PepsiCo profits rose 2 per cent to around 6.4 billion dollars. The company saw a 15-per-cent increase in revenue to 66.5 billion dollars.
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