El viernes pasado (Abril 27) tuve el honor de aceptar un Premio al Liderazgo que me otorgó el Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) y la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) durante su celebración anual, Espíritu de las Américas en Washington, DC. Read more
Last Friday, April 27, I had the honor of accepting a Leadership Award bestowed to me by the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) and the Organization of American States (OAS) during their annual Spirit of the Americas celebration in Washington, DC. As I was accepting it, I thought how lucky I am to receive recognition for doing things I really believe in and enjoy doing. Read more
Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day and marks the two-year anniversary of the PepsiCo Dream Machine recycling initiative—and what a tremendous two years it has been. We’re commemorating this milestone with the release of a progress report that shares the program’s cumulative results and successes since its launch on Earth Day 2010. Read more
At Boxford the juices we mix with our delicious apple juice to create our fantastic blends, (like Apple & Mango or Apple & Raspberry), come in large metal drums. We have hundreds of these drums and they used to be crushed and sent away as scrap – but we wanted to ensure that these were properly recycled in line with a project to better manage our waste streams from the factory. We found a company who would give us £3 - £5 per drum, and decided to give some of this money to local charities operating around Boxford in Suffolk. Read more
I love making things – always have since a child and for me a career in Engineering and specifically Manufacturing was my plan since I was a teenager. I believe that our economy desperately needs innovative and agile manufacturing which takes advantage of both niche & general markets where the UK can and should be competitive. I get very frustrated when capable technical people disappear into service sectors (especially banking and management consultancy). Read more
For over 30 years, PepsiCo has invested in and partnered with China to achieve mutual prosperity and anchor its position as a food and beverage market leader in China. Read more
I cannot believe a year has passed since World Water Day 2011! So what does the world have to show for it? Just a couple of weeks ago, the United Nations shared the great news that the world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Water Target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline! This means that between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells. No small feat, and cause for careful celebration. I say “careful celebration” because even though the MDG was met (it is the first of the MDGs to be reached), at least 11% of the world’s population – 783 million people – are still without access to safe drinking water, and billions lack sanitation facilities. Clearly, we... Read more
The entire Quaker team was absolutely thrilled by our site visit from none other than the British Prime Minister, who came up from Number 10 to take a tour around the historic Quaker mill and witness the unveiling of PepsiCo’s latest £14.4million investment plan. Read more
On Monday, on behalf of the PepsiCo Dream Machine recycling initiative, I had the opportunity to join members from the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) for the New York Stock Exchange closing bell ceremony. At 4 p.m. sharp, EBV graduate Elizabeth Perez-Halperin, president and founder of GC Green, a post-9/11 service-disabled veteran-owned green build general contracting and consulting firm, rang The Closing BellSM and banged the gavel to officially close trading for the day. The EBV provides free education and entrepreneurship training to post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities. Since 2010 (the launch year for the Dream Machine program), the EBV has increased its capacity by 50 percent and added three new universities to its consortium. Currently, there are nearly 4,000 Dream Machine kiosks and bins in 37 states across the U.S., and the more plastic bottles and aluminum cans that people recycle in Dream... Read more
Earlier this fall, I attended the 6th Annual Edelman Change and Employee Engagement Summit, which explored the critical and evolving relationship between employee engagement and innovative programs that both make a positive impact on society and drive the business. Read more
