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When some brands get killed there’s a huge backlash, but Pepsi made an under-the-radar move to stop making a popular soda

AFP - Coca-Cola on Friday said it had agreed to buy global coffee chain Costa from its UK owner Whitbread for £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion).

Russia's agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor intends to apply to national law enforcement agencies over possible commercial espionage by PepsiCo, spokesperson Yulia Melano told reporters.

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.

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.

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.

By Dimitra Manifava

Soft drinks manufacturer Pepsico-Ivi is seeking a bottler in the Greek market to take on the exclusive rights of production and sale of its brands, as the Pepsico group wishes to disengage from its loss-making activity in Greece.