TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS,
I am pleased to inform you that 2023 was another good
year for PepsiCo. We exceeded many of our performance
goals, innovated across our portfolio, and continued to
transform the business and build new capabilities. We did
this while continuing to invest in communities where we
live and work, create industry-leading partnerships, and
nurture our talent and workplace culture. More than ever,
we put PepsiCo Positive (pep+) at the center of all that
we do, transforming the business from end-to-end to
drive sustainable performance and value that positively
impacts the planet and our communities.
Our 2023 results show that our Winning with pep+
strategy is working, and it is the key to building an even
Faster, Stronger, and Better PepsiCo.
Becoming Even Faster, Stronger, and Better
Our financial performance in 2023 was highlighted
by robust 9.5% organic revenue growth, bringing our
three-year compound annual organic revenue growth
rate to 11%, and 14% growth in core constant currency
earnings per share (EPS). We showed very good progress
across geographies, with organic revenue up 8% in North
America, 12% in our International business, 10% in our
Global Convenient Foods business, and 8% in our Global
Beverages business.i
Our results reflect more than $1 billion in productivity
savings, while minimizing waste across our value chain.
From a marketplace perspective, in 2023 we held or
gained share in more than half our key global beverage
and convenient foods markets. We also received the
top spot for manufacturing in the Kantar PoweRanking
survey for the eighth consecutive year, a testament to
the collaborative relationships we maintain with our
customers and partners.
This strong performance enabled us to increase our
annualized dividend by 7%, effective with the dividend
expected to be paid in June 2024. This will represent
PepsiCo's 52nd consecutive annualized dividend per
share increase.
Our success in 2023 was powered by the critical
investments we're making to accelerate growth and build
a company that thrives in the future, such as:
• Advancing major transformation initiatives to
increase our productivity, elevate our focus on cost
control, and speed up the implementation of our
digital strategy;
• Showing progress with the automation of our data
and digital infrastructure and expanding critical
digital programs in more markets to enable faster
decision making;
• Launching our Powering Positive Growth marketing
transformation, leveraging the scale and influence of
our global brands;
• Driving scope and presence in key consumer
channels, like Away from Home and e-commerce;
and
• Laying the groundwork for the future of the business
and our industry, becoming the first consumer
packaged goods company to collaborate with the
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial
Intelligence to shape responsible and ethical Al
standards around consumer goods and retail.
We're also continuing to transform our portfolio with new
innovations and more positive choices for consumers.
These include:
• Launching Starry, our new lemon-lime soda, as well
as mini-snacks canisters and new Beyond the Bottle
solutions with Gatorade;
• Introducing our new Pepsi visual identity;
• Refreshing and extending our lineup of bold flavor
profiles across large brands with Flamin' Hot
and Doritos;
• Reducing sodium in some of our biggest brands like
Lay's Classic, Doritos Nacho Cheese, and Cheetos
Crunchy in the U.S.; Sabritas Adobadas in Mexico;
and Walkers in the U.K.; and
• Reducing added sugars and expanding our
zero sugar offerings across our beverage
portfolio, with Pepsi Zero Sugar now available in
121 international markets.
People and Planet at the Center
As we work to grow our business and deliver best-in-class
performance, we continue to make sure we are a company
that has a positive impact beyond our financials.
In 2023, pep+ remained our North Star, and we made
progress across its three core pillars: Positive Agriculture,
Positive Value Chain, and Positive Choices.
Positive Agriculture:
• Forging industry-leading partnerships to advance
our goal of adopting regenerative agriculture
practices across seven million acres worldwide,
roughly the size of our agricultural footprint. This
includes a collaboration with Walmart to cover
more than two million acres of farmland in the U.S.
and Canada, as well as strategic partnerships with
three of the most well-respected U.S. farmer-facing
organizations— Practical Farmers of Iowa, the Soil and
Water Outcomes Fund, and the Illinois Corn Growers
Association; and
• Announcing the third year of our Positive Agriculture
Outcomes Accelerator with investments in
projects across nine countries that support farmer
livelihoods, help scale sustainable innovations, and
accelerate the spread of regenerative agriculture.
Positive Value Chain:
• Introducing more sustainable packaging solutions,
with 31 markets having at least one product
packaged with 100% rPET;
• Continuing to scale new business models that
require little or no single-use packaging, allowing
users to personalize their choices in reusable
containers at home or on the go through
SodaStream and expanding Beyond the Bottle
at Gatorade and Propel with enhancers, tablets,
and powders;
• Opening an industry-leading Greenhouse Learning
Center for the Frito-Lay and Quaker Research
and Development teams to study compostable
packaging, aimed at speeding up the rate of
innovation for packaging solutions;
• Launching pep+ Partners for Tomorrow to help our
partners achieve their own sustainability goals,
bringing PepsiCo's comprehensive customer
sustainability offerings under a single umbrella;
• Advancing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
agenda around our people to reflect the
communities where we operate, including reaching
45% women in management roles globally, while
increasing U.S. Black and Hispanic representation at
the manager level to 9.2% and 10.3%, respectively.
We also continued to strengthen our ability to hire,
develop, and retain the best and brightest talent,
supporting our business partners, while helping to
build an inclusive supply chain and create economic
opportunity in the communities we serve;
• Continuing to focus on investing in our
employees— both frontline and professional —and
providing more opportunities for career
advancement; and
• Creating smiles in our communities through the
PepsiCo Foundation, investing $47.4 million in more
than 40 countries to help unlock access to nutritious
food, safe water, and economic opportunity.
Positive Choices:
• Continuing to transform our portfolio with new goals
to further reduce sodium and deliver 145 billion
portions of diverse ingredients such as legumes,
whole grains, plant-based proteins, fruits, vegetables,
and nuts and seeds annually by 2030; and
• Expanding the variety of positive choice offerings
with our air popped, baked, reduced fat, lightly salted,
and Simply branded products, as well as smaller
pack sizes.
Performing to Our Potential
From our investments in long-term growth to our actions
to build a more resilient and sustainable world, we are
proud of our progress in 2023—a challenging year,
defined in many ways by economic instability, geopolitical
tensions, high inflation, and a tight labor market. We have
proven we can navigate these challenges well. The next
few years will no doubt bring new and different challenges,
and the landscape will continue to evolve. To remain an
industry leader, we must continue to evolve too, seizing
new opportunities.
We're coming from a position of strength: we've spent
a lot of time and resources building up our technology,
our world class talent, our brands, and our capabilities.
Now, we need to do the hard work of building on some
very strong years to perform to our full potential in 2024
and beyond.
To achieve profitable growth in the years ahead, we
will work to accelerate our growth in North America
($55 billion in 2023 reported net revenue) by capturing
new consumer needs and occasions, and we'll continue
to scale our International business ($36 billion in 2023
reported net revenue) by broadening our presence
and availability in key markets where there are many
opportunities to develop our categories.
Central to our growth strategy will be building up core
capabilities, including:
• Advancing consumer-centric innovation by offering
more positive choices, delivering new flavors and
packaging options, building new ways for consumers
to connect with our brands across different
occasions, providing opportunities to customize and
personalize products, and extending our brands into
new channels;
• Digitalizing our company by leveraging cutting-
edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence
and machine learning, to gain more consumer
insights and analytics, develop faster and more
agile forecasting, and deliver better execution and
performance from the plant to the shelf; and
• Accelerating and expanding our productivity, with
more automation at our plants and warehouses
to empower frontline decision-making, greater
optimization across our transportation and fleet
network, and greater focus on cost management and
eliminating waste.
I am more confident than ever that our Winning with
pep+ strategy is the right one to achieve these goals
and make us an even Faster, even Stronger, and even
Better company.
We have the right team to get us there. Our people are the
key to our success, and I am proud of our leaders and our
associates who continue to deliver exceptional results in a
dynamic and complex operating environment.
I'd like to also extend my gratitude to our partners and
suppliers around the world for showing us what best-
in-class collaboration looks like. With their continued
support—and the support of all our stakeholders—we
will be well-positioned to achieve our goals for 2024 and
move closer to performing to our full potential.
Thank you for your continued support and for trusting us
with your investment.
Ramon L Laguarta
PepsiCo Chairman of the
Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer