- PepsiCo owns several restaurant brands including Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC. It is evaluating acquiring two companies: Carts of Colorado, which produces carts for restaurants, and California Pizza Kitchen, a casual dining pizza restaurant. - Acquiring California Pizza Kitchen could provide opportunities to expand PepsiCo's market share in the growing casual dining segment. It also has a culture of operational success that could benefit Pizza Hut. However, integrating it fully may risk cannibalizing Pizza Hut sales. - Acquiring Carts of Colorado could create backward integration benefits but also risks if the cart technology is not managed well, as it is not PepsiCo's core business. On balance, acquiring California Pizza

1. Position Paper: PepsiCo’s Restaurants<br /> Önder BARLAS<br /> Executive MBA Student<br /> Boğaziçi University, Istanbul<br />Abstract: <br />This position paper aims to evaluate “PepsiCo’s Restaurants” case study by the Harvard Business School. First a short summary, including the facts standing out from the rest will be given followed by a SWOT analysis. An initial due diligence will be conducted to investigate the advantages/disadvantages of an acquisition with Carts of Colorado and California Pizza Kitchen. <br />3483416700500<br />Basic Information about PepsiCoIn 1965, believing that snacks sales well with soda (complimentary products), Pepsi-Cola, which had sales of about $450 million, merged with Frito-Lay Company, a $184 million snack foods concern,. Afterwards the combined company was named PepsiCo. Its organization had eight major parts: Pepsi-Cola North America, Pepsi-Cola International, Frito-Lay, Inc., PepsiCo Foods International, Pizza Hut Worldwide, Taco Bell Worldwide, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation, and PepsiCo Food Systems Worldwide.<br />Facts and FiguresSoft Drinks:<br />Soft drinks represented 35% of PepsiCo's sales and 39% of its operating profits in 1991. With four of the top-selling U.S. soft drinks (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi, and Mountain Dew), the company held nearly a third of the $47 billion U.S. soft drink market. Internationally, PepsiCo's share of the $11 billion market was about 15%:<br />Snack Foods With top-selling brands, such as Doritos, Lay's, Fritos, and Ruffles, Frito-Lay's share of the $10 billion U.S. snack chips market was nearly half, and PepsiCo Foods International (PFI)'s share of the $13 billion international snack chips market was about one-quarter.<br /> <br />Restaurants:<br />The U.S. foodservice industry had sales of about $250 billion in 1991, and industry experts expected sales to double in the following 10 years. PepsiCo's strategy is based on this forecast assuming that quick service restaurants would remain the largest segment. They identified several major trends:<br />•Simplicity and Convenience.<br />•Value rather than prestige and status<br />•Growth in ethnic product categories<br />•Growth in health and nutrition <br />After that analysis PepsiCo’s decision was to invest in quick service-, casual dining and- take-out –segments.<br />In 1986, PepsiCo purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken. Combined with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, the purchase made PepsiCo the international leader in number of restaurant units. In 1991, PepsiCo's restaurant segment attained the highest revenue of the company's three segments, surpassing soft drinks for the First time. That year, restaurant sales and operating profits were 36% and 26% of the total, respectively. <br />SWOT Analysis of PepsiCo’s RestaurantsFirst a short SWOT analysis of PepsiCo will be conducted:<br />Strengths:<br />Each PepsiCo company’s business strategy aligns with the corporates’ business strategy to invest in quick service, casual dining and take-out segments.

2. Continuous double digit grow through aggressive strategies

3. Strong innovative spirit within the company

4. Well segmented restaurant brands