PepsiCo announced that Savitha Balachandran has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer - India and South Asia at PepsiCo, signalling a major leadership transition at PepsiCo in the region. She announced her new role through a LinkedIn post. In this role, she is set to lead the finance function for PepsiCo's business across India and South Asia.
With deep expertise across finance, strategy, and value creation, Balachandran will be a critical partner as the company accelerate next phase of growth in this anchor market. This transition comes as Kaushik Mitra, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, is set to retire from the company. An experienced finance leader, Balachandran was earlier associated with Tata Technologies as Chief Financial Officer for over five years.
Before that, she was with Tata Motors for over 18 years and held several leadership roles at the company.
PepsiCo, Inc. is one of the worldwide leaders in producing non-alcoholic beverages and snacks. Net sales break down by area of activity as follows:
- North America (60%): sale of beverages (50.3% of net sales; sodas, concentrated juices, water, tea and coffee-based beverages; Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Gatorade Zero, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Propel brands, etc.), snacks (44.9%; chips, tortillas and pretzels; Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos, Fritos, Ruffles, etc.), and cereals (4.8%; ready-to-eat cereals, rice, wheat, etc.);
- Europe (15.1%): sale of snacks (Cheetos, Chipita, Doritos, Lay's, Ruffles and Walkers brands) and beverages (7UP, Diet Pepsi, Lubimy Sad, Mirinda, Pepsi and Pepsi Max);
- Latin America (12.8%): sales of snacks (Cheetos, Doritos, Emperador, Lay's, Mabel, Marias Gamesa, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas and Tostitos brands) and beverages (7UP, Gatorade, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Black, San Carlos and Toddy);
- Africa/Middle East/South Asia (6.8%): sale of snacks (Chipsy, Doritos, Kurkure, Lay's, Sasko, Spekko and White Star brands) and beverages (7UP, Aquafina, Mirinda, Mountain Dew and Pepsi);
- Asia/Pacific/Australia/New Zealand (5.3%): sale of snacks (BaiCaoWei, Cheetos, Doritos, Lay's and Smith's brands), beverages and syrups (7UP, Aquafina, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi and Sting).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (56.3%), Mexico (7.8%), Russia (4.2%), Canada (4.1%), China (3%), the United Kingdom (2.2%), South Africa (2%), Brazil (1.9%) and other (18.5%).
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