Indra Nooyi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
For example, is there a corporate block called Frito-Lay?
Or do you have potato chips, corn chips?
How would you prefer having it?
Are the dips next to the chips?
If something is on deal, is it on an end aisle?
There's so many things we look at.
The Frito-Lay guys do a great job.
Well, you know, when Roger was CEO, we spun out the bottlers in North America.
I executed on his direction.
And at that point, it was the right thing to do.
But when I became CEO, I realized that the market was growing.
The bottlers were thriving.
When the market growth rate slowed down, the pie wasn't growing, but there were two companies, the concentrate company and the bottling company, fighting for a larger share of that pie.
And it was not constructive.
We were not serving the customer.
We were now fighting amongst ourselves.
I made the hard decision to buy back the bottlers.
Now it gets back to strategy.
Sometimes people say, oh, you flip-flopped.
No, the environment changed.