Our Progress

Our Progress

• Accelerated the growth of our portfolio of healthful products
• PepsiCo named to the Dow Jones Index for the third straight year
• Expanded our portfolio of healthful products through innovation
• Launched the food industry's first Carbon Reduction Label with the Carbon Trust on Walkers Crisps
• Improved water intensity ratio across all of our operations
• Committed more than $16 million to organizations working to bring safe water to developing countries
• Incorporated consideration of environmental sustainability issues and opportunities as part of every capital expenditure evaluation for projects greater
• Signed CEO Water Mandate
• Conserved nearly 5 billion liters of water and nearly 500 million kilowatt hours of energy worldwide in 2007 as compared to 2006
• Set corporation-wide goals to reduce water consumption by 20% per unit of production by the year 2015
• Authored with industry the "Global Commitment to Action on the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health", a commitment addressed to the World Health Organization
• Launched our global sustainable packaging policy
• Improved significantly our water, fuels, and electricity efficiency
• Reduced PET bottles, paperboard, and corrugated materials by more than 20 million pounds
• Introduced our Supplier Code of Conduct
• Joined Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SedEx)
• Increased spending on women and minority owned businesses
• Translated our Human Rights Workplace Policy into 20 languages
• Instituted global guidelines for beverages limiting advertising and marketing to children under 12
  Incorporated consideration of environmental sustainability issues and opportunities as part of every capital expenditure evaluation for projects greater than $5 million
• Saved nearly 1.5 billion gallons of water worldwide in 2007 compared to 2006
• Continued reuse of water from processing, working with local communities to provide access to clean water, and supporting farmers to deliver "more crop per drop"
• Offset the total purchased electricity used by all PepsiCo US-based facilities by purchasing renewable energy credits
• Honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with 2007 and 2008 Energy Star Partner of the Year awards for energy conservation