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Poppi went from kitchen experiment to $2 billion deal with PepsiCo

Allison Ellsworth is the co-founder of Poppi. Courtesy of Allison Ellsworth In 2015, Allison Ellsworth was in her kitchen experimenting with different gut-healthy drink recipes, trying to make apple cider vinegar taste good. Little did she know that the concoctions she was mixing would eventually become a billion dollar business. Today, the 38-year-old is the … Read more

Inside PepsiCo’s beverage overhaul: A Gatorade reboot, the $2 billion Poppi buy, and a gut-health play, all under activist scrutiny

As a trained engineer, Ram Krishnan loves to nerd out on the science of Gatorade. The CEO of PepsiCo’s U.S. beverages division wants to know things like, “What is the optimal balance between sodium and potassium given the different ‘sweating’ profiles of Gatorade users?” He’ll ask his staff, “How much protein can be added to … Read more

Cola lovers: PepsiCo has a prebiotic soda in the works for you—and it’s not Poppi

With the buzz around healthy sodas far from fizzling, Pepsi is doubling down on the emerging segment just months after acquiring one of its pioneers, Poppi, by launching a new innovation: Pepsi Prebiotic Cola. The product is “one of the largest new innovations in the cola category,” Mark Kirkham, CMO of PepsiCo Beverages US, told Retail Brew. … Read more

Poppi founder Allison Ellsworth went from making soda in her kitchen to selling her company to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion

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