Leadership
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Assignment One
Awesome J’s
Justin & Jaswinder
Introduction
Company’s Profile
Leader
Conclusion
PEPSICO.
Company’s Profile
• World's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and
beverage brands
• 19 products generating $1 Billion in annual retail
sales
• PepsiCo's main businesses – Frito-Lay, Quaker,
Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade
• Consumers in more than 200 countries, with
nearly $60 billion revenue
• Employs 285,000 people worldwide
What a Good leader does to a company
Takes the company to the heights
Our Leader
Indra K. Nooyi
Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Personal profile
• Nationality: Indian
• Born: October 28, 1955, in Madras, India.
• Education: Madras Christian College, BS, 1976;
Indian Institute of Management, MBA, 1978;
Yale University, master of public and private
management, 1980.
• Family: Married Raj K. Nooyi (management
consultant); children: two.
Career
• Product manager: Johnson & Johnson and Mettur Beardsell
• Director of international corporate strategy projects:
Boston Consulting Group
• Member of automotive division development team:
Motorola
• Vice president and director of corporate strategy and
planning: Asea Brown Boveri
• Senior vice president of corporate strategy and strategic
marketing: PepsiCo
• Chairman and CEO: PepsiCo
Performance with Purpose
• Mrs. Nooyi, the chief architect of PepsiCo's
multi-year growth strategy
• built a portfolio of enjoyable & wholesome
foods and beverages
• Found innovative ways reducing energy,
water and packaging usage
• Provide a great workplace for employees
• Transformed PepsiCo into food and beverage
focused entity
• Divestiture of company’s restaurants into
successful YUM! Brands including Kentucky
Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell
• Involved in every major strategic decision
• Believe in teamwork
Restructuring of Company
• Acquisition of Tropicana
• Merger with Quaker Oats that brought the
vital Quaker and Gatorade businesses to
PepsiCo
• Merger with PepsiCo's anchor bottlers
In 2000 when promoted
• Finished that year with four continuous
quarters of uninterrupted growth—in
revenues, profits, and return on capital
• Company's stock price was up 40 percent from
the year before
• In August 2001 PepsiCo purchased the Quaker
Oats Company
Gatorade and Tropicana’s Acquisition
• Financially detailed, was willing to take a
lower-return-on-asset business as she saw a
way to improve it to get strong margin growth
• Very high ability to find value in an acquisition
• Integration did not go smoothly at first
• No obstacle appeared to prevent the
acquisition from ultimately succeeding
Financial Success
• PepsiCo's total sales grew nearly 7 percent in
2002
• Company's annual revenue grew over its
historical 6 percent growth rate
• Achieved goal of $400 million in synergies by
the end of fiscal year 2004
Acquisition of Quaker & Oats
• Arduously negotiated, demanded a limit on
the stock price of no more than $105 a share
for Quaker shareholders.
• Throughout the whole process, she was
disciplined and held very firm
Achievements
• Named one of the "most powerful women in
business" by Fortune magazine
• In 2004 was named number two executive at
the world's number two soft drink maker
• Highest-ranked Indian American woman in
corporate America
Leadership concepts
• Behavior Indra always wanted to achieve
• Traits company’s goals she treated
the company as her child and
• Skills never took work as a burden
• Attitude she said “we should enjoy
• Knowledge whatever we are doing
otherwise its not worth doing”
• Contemporary
developments
Conclusion
• Nooyi has ability to anticipate and envision
future
• Thinks strategically
• Worked with others to Achieve company’s
goals
• Is highly skilled
• Joined company when it was struggling but
took it to heights with her intensive
competitiveness
• In business life cycle PepsiCo. is now at
maturity stage
• Started working at middle management level
now is at top management level
References
• Board of Directors and Committees, PepsiCo.
Retrieved on June 17, 2010 from:
[Link]
[Link]#Nooyi_fb
• Reference for Business Encyclopedia of
Business, 2nd ed. Retrieved on June 17, 2010
from:
[Link]
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