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A 300 sq meter storage facility belonging to PepsiCo collapsed in the south-western Russian town of Lebedyan, leaving two workers stuck in an elevator 38 meters up in the air.
“According to preliminary information, one of the men was injured,” the deputy head of the local authorities, Valeriy Golovan, told NTV.

Just when you think there’s no end to the diversity of junk food lining supermarket aisles, an insanely detailed infographic comes along to set us all straight. Out of the hundreds of products at our disposal, only ten major corporations manufacture the bulk of what we toss in our shopping carts.

Athens-listed Viohalco group is in the final stage of talks for the acquisition of PepsiCo-Ivi's central plant at Oinofyta in Viotia, which ceased production on October 30.

The rapid deindustrialization of the country has led to the shutdown of at least 18 production units in the last five years from 2012 to 2016.

The latest such incident was the termination of the Pepsico-Ivi plant at Viotia, central Greece, on October 31. Three months earlier, on August 2, listed wire and wire ropes producer Leventeris had shut down its plant near Volos.

A day after PepsiCo-Ivi said it was terminating production in Greece, Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world's biggest Coke bottlers, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Dimitris Xynotroulias as marketing director for the company's Flavors department (dealing with Sprite, Fanta, Schweppes etc) for 26 Central and Eastern European countries based in Athens, and of Lilian Nektariou as the new general

Ninety years after the first production of soft drinks in Greece under the name Ivi, and 43 years after the Ivi-Panagopoulos company first started making Pepsi Cola in the country, the machinery at the PepsiCo-Ivi plants ground to a halt on Monday.

The benchmark of the Greek stock market chalked up monthly gains of 4.53 percent in October, after Monday's session saw the majority of stocks swing from red in the morning to green in the afternoon, despite the negative mood on most other European bourses due to concerns over the US presidential race.

Cypriot company Hellenic Water is in advanced talks with Pepsico-Ivi for the acquisition of the latter's water bottling plant at Loutraki, near Corinth.

The local subsidiary of Pepsico is also in talks with a company outside the food and drink sector for the sale of its installations - offices and warehouses - at Koropi, east of Athens.

U.S. soda giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are among the companies competing for a minority stake in yogurt maker Chobani, a person familiar with the process said on Oct. 13.

A number of companies are now considering closig their production plants in Russia on account of the devaluation of the Russian ruble and the unfavorable economic conditions.

Among them are PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. AG as reported by the Wall Street Journal.