Thursday, August 21, 2008

Pepsi's Legacy And Its Humble Beginnings


AS USUAL, WAS HOT AND HUMID IN NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA. SO A YOUNG
PHARMACIST NAMED CALEB BRADHAM BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH COMBINATIONS
OF SPICES, JUICES AND SYRUPS, TRYING TO CREATE A REFRESHING NEW DRINK TO
SERVE TO HIS CUSTOMERS. HE SUCCEEDED BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS, INVENTING
THE BEVERAGE NOW KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS ... PEPSI-COLA.

“Pepsi-Cola,” and advertised his new soft drink to enthusiastic customers. Sales ofPepsi-Cola started to grow, convincing him to form a company and market the new beverage. In 1902, he launched the Pepsi-Cola Company in the back room of his pharmacy, and applied to the U.S.
Patent Office for a trademark. An official patent was awarded on June 16, 1903.
At first, he mixed the syrup himself and sold it exclusively through soda fountains.
But soon Caleb recognized that a greater opportunity existed—to bottle Pepsi-Cola
so that people everywhere could enjoy it. BUILDING THE BUSINESS

From its humble beginnings over a century ago, Pepsi-Cola has grown to become one
of the best-known, most-loved products throughout the world. And the company
behind it—PepsiCo—has grown as well, standing today as the premier marketer
of refreshment beverages, juices and snack foods. PepsiCo got its start in 1965, when Pepsi-
Cola and Frito-Lay merged to create a new company. Since then, PepsiCo, Inc. has continued to
grow, adding new brands and product lines. Tropicana Products, Inc. joined the PepsiCo portfolio
in 1998 and gives PepsiCo the strongest brand name in juice. The company hit
a grand slam with its merger with The Quaker Oats Company in 2001,
bringing together two incredibly strong and successful food and beverage companies.
The PepsiCo-Quaker union added the powerful Gatorade thirst quencher and its Quaker brand, a symbol of healthy eating that extends PepsiCo’s reach into breakfast, on-the-go foods, and
snacks for kids. Today, PepsiCo is a $29 billion company, employing more than
150,000 people speaking more than 40 languages around the globe. The company is
consistently recognized for its corporate citizenship, philanthropic efforts and diversity
programs. It is the world’s fourth-largest food and beverage company— and is staking its claim as the global leader in convenience foods and beverages. PepsiCo has a strong plan to continue to
expand with an enormous lineup of convenience foods and drinks that provide great taste, nutrition and fun around the clock.

PepsiCo concentrated on building three very successful lines of business: soft drinks, snacks and
restaurants. Roger A. Enrico, named PepsiCo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1996, succeeded Wayne Calloway. He led the spin-off of restaurants as a separate company and focused PepsiCo on building world famous trademarks in beverages, snacks and juices.
Look around and you’ll see PepsiCo’s brands in nearly 200 countries. The company offers more than 500 beverages and snacks that appeal to every consumer age group and demographic category, spanning every time of the day. These brands also serve a wide variety of consumer needs—from fun and enjoyment to health and nutrition—and they remain the single greatest reason for PepsiCo’s continued success. For the latest information on Pepsi-Cola Company and its products, check out www.pepsiworld.com. For more on PepsiCo, please visit www.pepsico.com.

PepsiCo, Inc. was founded in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Tropicana was acquired in 1998. In 2001, PepsiCo merged with the Quaker Oats Company, creating the world’s fifth-largest food and beverage company, with 15 brands – each generating more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s success is the result of superior products, high standards of performance, distinctive competitive strategies and the high level of integrity of our people.

Monday, August 18, 2008

The Legacy of Rin Tin Tin


Rin Tin Tin is considered the most famous name in the history of German shepherd dog and also one of the oldest lines of blood continues on the race of 107 years of history. The beginnings of favourable Rin Tin Tin would be that two families have devoted their lives to the preservation of its heritage, not only, but also the quality of the line for which he is known.

The original Rin Tin Tin puppy was a mere five days, as Corporal Duncan Lee said his battalion in Lorraine, France extract a war kennel bombed during World War I. What has to this day disastrously, 15 September 1918 was a mother and her German shepherd roll, the only survivor of the bomb dropped.Duncan chosen two puppies, one male and one female, and members of the battalion took the mother and the rest back to their tents.

Ironically, the only survivors in the coming months, the two young animals said Duncan. Nenette and Rintintin, American soldiers have been for good luck. Duncan has worked with dogs training to meet, as he saw the German war machine during the war dogs. He was impressed wild race and capacity wanted to learn more. Duncan discovered that the french champion in the kennel of the cage bomed was taken prisoner by the Americans. He went even further, to visit Kennel master in the U.S. prison camp for more, not only on the appointment of a new breed German shepherd

Duncan made special arrangements to meet his two young animals back to the USA with him at his home in Los Angeles.With conduct of its interest in the race, his arrival in New York, he met Ms. Wanner, while the first German breeders of dogs Nannette Shepherd of the USShe proposed to maintain, to try to save his illness, but the young animal died before Duncan's train in California had arrived.Mrs. Wanner, namely, Duncan's love to race, he sent one of its best female puppy to replace Nannette.

Finally, one day, while approaching studios, which is considered "poverty line", he saw a team from the film tries to shoot down a scene with a wolf and not a success. He approached the crew and talked him and his dog, in a scene. It has been said, far to go and his dog and the script with him.

It continues and, finally, it allows him to try the scene with Rin Tin Tin. Voila, the scene was filmed in one take, as he had promised, and they keep to the author of "The Man From Hell's River." The name of the young studio on the verge of bankruptcy was Warner Brothers Pictures . The film was a success and Rin Tin Tin was a sensation. The public has loved and its ability to heroic. Rin Tin Tin finally 26 images for Warner Brothers before his death on 10 August 1932.

At the peak of his career at Warner Brothers, he received approximately 10000 fan letters a week and was considered one of Hollywood's top stars.Rin Tin Tin had died unexpectedly in this fateful Friday, it was expected start a new film for Warner Brothers following Monday.

Duncan, Junior was a nice dog, but not the image of the father or the structure of capacity, but it was decided to retain the heritage of what fate had him.

The studio instead begin the new image, Duncan towards the promotion of son of Rin Tin Tin. During this tour in 1933, Rin Tin Tin, the first commercial flight of an airplane dog and that his father won the heart of fans across America.

Many people, wanted juvenile his famous dog approached Duncan, but only for one of these relations, the necessary commitment to the line for future generations.

The Rin Tin Tin livestock uses carefully breeding program primarily to ensure the integrity of the line. Out-crosses, which are needed each farm, but the influx of new blood to Rin Tin Tin line is made only after careful consideration and research. Progeny outside the cross in the blood then Rin Tin Tin line.

"Now, some 50 years later, I served the line is longer than Duncan or my grandmother. I have sufficient knowledge of regular blood, which will continue to produce the two dogs Duncan Lee and my grandmother would be proud of you as a real tribute to their name and cousins in the same way each of them. There will always be a Rin Tin Tin ", they continue to transit.

Rin Tin Tin VIII died June 14, 2007 just days before his successor, Rin Tin Tin X was born. Rin Tin Tin X was born on June 23, 2007 and has already started putting in joy with his supporters in the country amazing abilities and talents.

"Seems with all things Rin Tin Tin, fate dictated events is to ensure that heritage is protected."

Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Legacy of Pope John Paul II



Tribute to the life and legacy of Pope John Paul II.was one of the great religious leaders of modern times, and an eloquent champion of human freedom and dignity. Unlike too many false religious leaders, the pope understood that the personal and economic freedom is a condition sine qua non for the development of human virtue.

I want to encourage this desire to honor his memory, about his teachings, as regards the war and the sanctity of life, and inconsistencies to use Pro-Life, but support the making unjustified killing of innocent people, which inevitably accompanies militarism, or the right to peace and pro-compassion, but support to the killing of the right to be born.

The pope's commitment to human dignity, based on the doctrine of Jesus Christ, has made him a spokesman for eloquentesten consistent ethic of life, for example, by its struggles against the abortion, war, euthanasia and the death penalty.

Today, on ethics rigorous life, we see a few, joy of the Holy Father against the war and the death penalty, while downplaying or even openly, despite its teachings against abortion and the euthanasia.