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title: "CNBC: PepsiCo Pledges to Slash Beverage Calorie Counts by 2025"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/f2ce10b4-bda5-4e0e-9dc2-733d2b105025
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/cnbc-pepsico-pledges-to-slash-beverage-calorie-counts-by-2025-6591
category: "Finance"
topics: ["Finance & M&A"]
published: 2016-10-17T18:13:34.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:12:23.541Z
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# CNBC: PepsiCo Pledges to Slash Beverage Calorie Counts by 2025

**TL;DR:** PepsiCo plans to reduce the calorie count of its drinks by 2025, with two-thirds of its drinks having 100 calories or less per 12-ounce serving. The company aims to reduce sugar content in its drinks and increase water efficiency.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-10-17. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/cnbc-pepsico-pledges-to-slash-beverage-calorie-counts-by-2025-6591).*

## Story

PepsiCo is planning on making big progress in reducing sugar in beverages in the next decade. According to a recent CNBC article, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi announced a new sustainability initiative that includes significantly reducing the calorie count of the company’s drinks by 2025.

As consumer preferences changes, the company is trying to respond to the health concerns of sugar-sweetened beverages as well as the efforts by many communities to tax sugary beverages to fight obesity. In addition, the company plans to redouble water efficiency.

PepsiCo says that two-thirds of the company’s drink will have 100 calories or less per 12-ounce serving in as little as nine years. It is a big promise seeing as the brand makes more than $1 billion annually from its signature Pepsi soda.

"Over the last decade, we have made progress in reducing sugar," PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi told CNBC. "But there's a lot more we needed to do because countries which loved sugar were growing faster than countries which were consuming lower-sugar products."

The company will also have to consider changes to its products outside of soda, which include ready-to-drink coffee, iced tea products, flavored sparkling water, juices, and Gatorade drinks.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- PepsiCo (company)
- sustainability initiative (topic)
- sugar reduction (topic)
- beverage calorie counts (topic)
- water efficiency (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/cnbc-pepsico-pledges-to-slash-beverage-calorie-counts-by-2025-6591). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/f2ce10b4-bda5-4e0e-9dc2-733d2b105025).