Pepsi cola can in iraq

Baghdad Soft Drinks, which had been the Pepsi bottler since , could no longer get Pepsi concentrate and began selling homemade colas in leftover Pepsi bottles, PepsiCo says. But the company is forgiving and said it feels "very fortunate to again be working in partnership with Baghdad Soft Drinks Co. Yet that bottler still owned millions of dollars worth of Pepsi bottles.

PepsiCo said the agreement is expected to create about 2, new jobs at Baghdad Soft Drinks over the next several years. After the invasion of Kuwait, sanctions led the Iraqi licence holder, Baghdad Soft Drinks, to replace the authentic Pepsi concentrate it had used with fakes smuggled from eastern Europe. But Baghdad Soft Drinks says Pepsi is rebuilding, with bottling operations in the capital and southern Iraq.

In the west, Coke and Pepsi have been targeted as US symbols. Entrepreneurs have produced alternatives such as Mecca-Cola and Muslim Up. But in Iraq, hostility to the US is expressed more directly in attacks on US troops; Sunni Arab insurgent sympathisers have no problem drinking and serving Pepsi. Falls Church police want to talk to him after a sex assault. Veterans Day ceremony. Loudoun Co. Obituary: Alan Paller. Federal district court denies two initial attempts at blocking federal vaccine mandate for employees.

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