PepsiAmericas, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

4000 Dain Rauscher Plaza
60 South Sixth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
U.S.A.
Telephone: (612) 661-4000
Fax: (612) 661-3737
Web site: http://www.pepsiamericas.com

Public Company
Incorporated: 1962 as Illinois Central Industries, Inc.
Employees: 14,500
Sales: $3.2 billion (2003)
Stock Exchanges: New York
Ticker Symbol: PAS
NAIC: 312111 Soft Drink Manufacturing; 333415 Air Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing; 811112 Automotive Exhaust System Repair

PepsiAmericas, Inc. is the result of the merger of the second- and third-largest bottlers in the Pepsi system. Predecessor Whitman Corporation, known until 1988 as IC Industries, owned and operated the largest independent Pepsi bottler company, the largest franchise for car services, and one of the leading manufacturers of refrigerators in the world, along with several other manufacturing divisions. The company, which began as a railroad operation, divested itself of non-bottling businesses completely in 1997. Whitman acquired PepsiAmericas, Inc. in 2000, and took the smaller company's name the following year.