Saturated Fat

Informed by the guidelines on energy intake provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, we have set a goal that helps consumers reduce the amount of saturated fat in their diets. Our goal, as part of our Performance with Purpose (PwP) 2025 agenda, is that by 2025, three-fourths of our food portfolio will have saturated fat levels that do not exceed 1.1g/100 Calories. 

Our PwP goal is designed to shift a significant portion of our food portfolio towards lower saturated fat levels that make it easier for our consumers to follow WHO’s recommendations. Reducing saturated fat in our products not only benefits consumers, and our business as a result, it helps PepsiCo to address regulatory needs.

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Sodium

Informed by the guidelines on sodium intake provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, we have set a goal that helps consumers reduce the amount of sodium in their diets. Our goal, as part of our Performance with Purpose (PwP) 2025 agenda, is that by 2025, three-fourths of our global foods portfolio will have sodium levels that do not exceed 1.3 mg/Calorie. 

While global dietary intake data shows snacks are a relatively small proportion of total sodium intake, we developed our goal so that it shifts a significant portion of our foods portfolio towards lower sodium levels that make it easier for our consumers to follow the WHO’s recommendations.  Reducing sodium in our products not only benefits consumers, and our business as a result, it helps PepsiCo to address regulatory needs.

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Stakeholder Engagement

We value the views of our shareholders and other stakeholders, including customers, consumers, shareholders, employees and a wide range of organizations, and the input that we receive from them is a cornerstone of how we developed, implement and evolve our Performance with Purpose (PwP) 2025 agenda. These engagements help us learn about emerging sustainability topics, better inform our efforts, and help PepsiCo work to create value for our company and society.

We use a variety of mechanisms to solicit feedback from our stakeholders, including bilateral meetings and participation in stakeholder networks, outreach programs, webinars and partnerships on a variety of topics. Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders is important, including organizations that are critical of our actions, in order to understand and address their concerns.

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Sugar

Informed by the guidelines on added sugars intake provided by the FDA, we have set a goal that helps consumers reduce the amount of added sugars in their diets. Our goal, as part of our Performance with Purpose (PwP) 2025 agenda, is that by 2025, at least two thirds of our global beverage portfolio volume will have 100 Calories or fewer from added sugars per 12 ounce serving.

Our new goal is designed to shift a significant portion of our beverage portfolio towards lower calorie levels that make it easier for consumers to follow the FDA’s recommendations. We will do this by expanding our portfolio of lower-calorie beverages and reducing added sugars in our overall beverage portfolio.

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Supplier Diversity

PepsiCo is committed to purchasing from a supplier base representative of our employees, consumers, retail customers and communities. Developing partnerships with diverse suppliers helps us build the world-class supplier base we need. It creates mutually beneficial relationships that expand PepsiCo's sphere of activity. It helps build community infrastructure by providing employment, training, role models, buying from other minority and women-owned businesses and supporting community organizations.

In 2017, we spent approximately $1.35 billion USD with diverse suppliers in the United States[1]. This includes Tier 2 spend reported by non-diverse suppliers, which demonstrates PepsiCo's goal of expanding engagement of diverse suppliers in its supply chain. Beginning in 2017, we broadened our supplier diversity program to include LGBT, Veteran and Disabled-owned enterprises.

Since we started our Supplier Diversity program more than 35 years ago, we have spent a total of over $20 Billion with diverse suppliers, and we are proud to say that we utilize them in virtually all areas of our company. To learn more, please visit www.pepsico.com/sdregistration.

[1] The PepsiCo Supplier Diversity program defines a diverse supplier as an entity that is 51% or more owned, operated, and managed by an individual or individuals from one or more of the following groups: ethnic minority, women, veterans/service-disabled veterans, LGBTs, and people with disabilities.

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Sustainability Governance

We believe strong sustainability governance is the foundation for delivering on our Performance with Purpose (PwP) vision to provide top-tier financial performance over the long-term by integrating sustainability into our business strategy. At PepsiCo, sustainability topics are integrated into, and not separate from, our business. To learn more about the role that our Board, senior leadership, and employees throughout the company play in managing sustainability at PepsiCo, please visit our Sustainability Governance page.

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Sustainable Sourcing

We hold our suppliers to the same standards of integrity to which we hold ourselves. An unethical or illegal act by a supplier may hurt PepsiCo's reputation as a world-class company and cause a loss of goodwill in the communities we serve. Therefore, all suppliers are expected to follow our Supplier Code of Conduct, and relevant policies and commitments as a condition of doing business with us.

These standards are based on international conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

To learn more about our Supplier Code of Conduct and Sustainable Sourcing Program, visit our Sustainable Sourcing page.

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Talent

To attract the best talent, PepsiCo strives to maintain our reputation as a great place to work. We do this by raising awareness about PepsiCo’s unique, high-performance culture and highlighting PepsiCo’s traditional benefits — including comprehensive compensation, health care, and savings and retirement programs — and emphasize our diverse culture and commitment to learning and development. The future of PepsiCo will be shaped by our commitment to hiring and developing the most talented associates by building strong, diverse teams through offering rewarding and challenging careers.

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Trans Fats

In support of the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO), governments and the public health community to reduce the global intake of industrially produced trans fats (TFA), PepsiCo has joined industry in adopting a commitment to reduce industrially produced TFAs from partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) in our products worldwide to less than 1g TFA per 100 grams of product by the end of 2018.

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay US business led the industry with its response to TFAs, when in 2003, it replaced partially hydrogenated cooking oils in its core snacks with cooking oils like corn, canola and sunflower. These cooking oils contain minimal amounts of TFAs that can develop during the refining process. In addition the company included a trans fat line on every nutrition facts panel more than two years in advance of the 2006 Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulation.

Waste

Waste reduction, in all its forms, is a strategic imperative for PepsiCo, for the benefit it provides to our business in the form of cost savings and efficiencies gained. It is also inherent to being a good citizen of the communities where we operate.

As part of our 2025 Performance with Purpose (PwP) agenda, we set the following goals related to waste:

• Strive to achieve zero waste to landfill in our direct operations by 2025
• Reduce food waste by 50 percent in our direct operations by 2025

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Water

We believe that water is a fundamental human right, indispensable to every community around the world. With water scarcity impacting nearly 3 billion people worldwide today, including people in communities where we operate, there is a strong imperative for companies like PepsiCo to deploy their expertise and resources to address this issue.

Water is also a critical resource for our business, at all points along our value chain – from the farms where we grow the fruits, vegetables and grains that make up our product portfolio, to our manufacturing processes where water is used to ensure we meet the highest quality food safety standards, and as one of the key ingredients in many of our products. PepsiCo’s business depends on water, and as such, we have a vested interest in conserving and protecting it.

As part of our Performance with Purpose (PwP) 2025 agenda, we have set the following goals around water:

• Improve water-use efficiency in high water-risk areas of our direct agricultural supply chain by 15 percent by 2025
• Achieve a 25 percent improvement in water-use efficiency in direct operations by 2025, with a focus on manufacturing operations in high water-risk areas
• Replenish 100 percent of the water we consume in manufacturing operations located in high-water risk areas by 2025, ensuring that replenishment takes place in the same watershed where the water was extracted
• Ensure that 100 percent of wastewater from our operations meets PepsiCo’s standards for protection of the environment by 2025
• Ensure access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to 100 percent of manufacturing employees by 2025
• Extend safe water access to a total of 25 million people by 2025 from our 2006 baseline
• Initiate and support collaborative efforts with other stakeholders to address water risk and mitigate water insecurity
• Advocate for strong water governance in communities and watersheds where we operate, promoting water solutions that meet local water needs

For more information about our efforts to achieve positive water impact, visit our Water page.

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Workplace Health & Safety

Protecting the safety, health and well-being of our associates around the world is one of our top priorities.We are working in many ways to promote the values of health and safety at PepsiCo and the continual improvement of our culture and performance. In 2018, we aligned our Global Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) function behind a single strategy, which highlights the following vision:

Zero harm to our people and the environment today—Pursue a positive impact culture for our future

Our EHS strategy provides the framework for our vision of ‘Beyond Zero’ whereby we focus on trying to achieve an injury-free work environment, as well as working to create a culture of positive impact on the health and wellbeing of our employees and the environment.

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