Roger Enrico
Roger Enrico
Roger Enricowas an American businessman...
actions consistent create focus future growth help position profitable strong
Together, these actions will dramatically sharpen our focus as a corporation, position us for strong consistent growth and, ultimately, help us to create a bigger, more profitable future for PepsiCo and its shareholders,
beverage feeling food global industry others players push quaker small
There was a feeling in the food and beverage industry that players like Quaker and others were too small to play on a global stage, so there was this push to merge,
approach certainly reality video
We are now, we believe, more knowledgeable about how to approach the reality of this new, certainly more dynamic, video marketplace.
expect good great growth last year
We had a great year out of international last year and I expect to see real good growth this year,
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While we all know the movie business is by nature hard to predict, I think it's reasonable to conclude that recent changes in the home video market caught us and many others in our industry by surprise,
against compete great larger merger needs operate rapidly retail serve view
We view this merger as great news, ... In general, larger bottlers can operate more efficiently, compete more efficiently against other big bottlers and, most important, better serve the needs of our rapidly consolidating retail customers.
family traitors
We don't need traitors in our family and we're not going to have them,
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When I was elected CEO, I said I hoped to have the perseverance to stay long enough to get the job done and the wisdom not to remain too long, ... By the end of 2001, I will have been a part of the PepsiCo team for 30 terrific years. I'm sure it will be surprising to very few people that I now feel it is time to move on to creating a new chapter in my life.
earnings focus generating healthy higher returns sharper volume
With a much sharper focus on the marketplace, we're generating healthy volume gains, better returns and higher earnings growth,
closely creation help improve performance pursue separately size
The creation of a closely aligned, separately managed bottler of this size would help us pursue consolidation opportunities and improve our performance in the marketplace.
achieve believe confident consensus consistent deliver line quality results strong
We are confident we will deliver a solid, high-quality first quarter, consistent with the consensus estimate, and we believe we will achieve strong results for the year, in line with our goals.
occasional percent performance sustain
Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,
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Our strength was broad-based, with solid earnings growth across every business, domestic and international, ... Our sharp focus on convenient food and beverages is paying off and we expect consistently healthy results to continue throughout 2001.
excited forward full goods packaged pure year
As we look forward to 1998, we're very excited about our first full year as a pure packaged goods company,