Bottler Of The Year Pepsi Bottling Ventures

摘要

Last year proved to be one of the most difficult years bottlers have faced in awhile. Instead of focusing on rising raw material costs, fuel prices and consumers' declining disposable income, Beverage Industry's 2009 Bottler of the Year, Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV), Raleigh, N.C., looks at what it can control in a difficult year, says Keith Reimer, PBV's president and chief executive officer. "In that environment, what I look at now is: Are we growing faster than the categories that we compete in?" Reimer says. "Are we growing faster in those categories and the category overall? Are we growing faster than our competitors? And are we growing faster than our brethren in the Pepsi system?