World Cup of Crisps on Monday 28 March. The new Twitter poll feature automatically tallied the results, and during the semi-finals over one million votes had been cast. The 48 crisps were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing to the second group stage. Bold indicates crisps that qualified. Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Due to the tie between Walkers Smoky Bacon and Taytos Cheese & Onion, a 10-minute tiebreak poll was conducted, with Walkers defeating Taytos by 51% to 49%. Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10 Group
PepsiCo its Pepsi Cola product in Mexico, stating that about one third of the population has difficulty pronouncing "Pepsi". With manufacture and sales of its product under the label 'Pécsi', the advertisement campaign features the Mexican soccer celebrity Cuauhtémoc Blanco. In 2009, PepsiCo had previously used the same strategy successfully in Argentina. Pepsico will market and distribute Starbucks products in several Latin American countries for 2016. The division contributed 13 percent of PepsiCo's net revenues in 2015. PepsiCo began to expand its distribution in Europe in the 1980s, and in 2015 it made up 17 percent of the company's global net