As of March 2010, the company owned six soft drink bottling plants in Russia, the Frito Lay plant, which produces 40,000 tons of Lay’s, Cheetos and Xpycteam chips per year. The company did not reduce the assortment in any way, but began to produce Pepsi under a different name, for example, the brands "7Up", "Mirinda" - this is Frustyle, Pepsi - is Evervess and "Любимая кола". The American PepsiCo, having just launched ice cream under the Domik v derevne brand, agreed on its production with Chistaya Liniya near Moscow. Initially PepsiCo promised to suspend production & sale of Pepsi in Russia and planned to continues to provide essential foods. Global food and beverage giant PepsiCo has banned any mention of the war in Ukraine in its advertising, even in Ukraine, the B4Ukraine Coalition reported on Jan. 10, 2024. PEPSICO HOLDINGS LLC currently have 21 branches in different regions of Russia and 1 representative office in Belarus. They also have 80 brands registered in Rospatent, most of which were extended recently till 2033.
June 18, 2024
The company announced the suspension of the sale of Pepsi-Cola, 7Up and Mirinda (replacing them with Evervess and Frustyle). The company continued to produce other products in Russia. It also suspends capital investments and all advertising and promotional activities in Russia. In September 2022 PepsiCo Inc has stopped making Pepsi, 7UP and Mountain Dew in Russia nearly six months after the U.S. company said it would suspend sales and production after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. For 11 months, from the beginnig of the war, the company has not taken any visible steps to exit and continues to sell chips and dairy products in Russia. Still operating in Russia with increasing revenue volumes in 2022 vs 2021 (+$223mn or +5%). Profit volumes also significantly increased in 2022 vs 2021. The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has included two leading food corporations, PepsiCo and Mars, on the list of international sponsors of the war. SAS is taking swift action and have already announced a boycott of Pepsi products due to their continued business in russia and financially fueling Russia's war. In 2024, the American company PepsiCo started the operation of the first phase of the factory of snacks and salty snacks in Russia, near Novosibirsk. Despite the war, the company has been operating in Russia for over 60 years, and opened a new plant with a production capacity of 60,000 tons per year. The American company PepsiCo wants to register the Rockstar trademark in Russia for the sale of beverages. The application was submitted to the agency on April 30, 2025 and PepsiCo is listed as the applicant. According to the documents, the company under this name wants to produce and sell various beverages in Russia: water, energy drinks, fruit juices.
September 19, 2025 | PepsiCo still making money in Russia—and helping fund war |
August 28, 2025 | Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: PepsiCo and the Consumer Point of View |
May 08, 2025 | PepsiCo wants to register a trademark in Russia for the sale of beverages |
April 23, 2025 | Putin’s Pepsi Party - PepsiCo paid nearly $800M in Russian taxes last year |
March 10, 2025 | Pepsi Bought 17 Russian Submarines and Warships Summed Up for 1 Reason |
November 12, 2024 | The largest producer of drinking milk reported a 3.4% increase in selling prices |
October 16, 2024 | Get PepsiCo out of Russia — sign the petition |
July 31, 2024 | The American giant opened a factory in Russia and continues to work in Ukraine |
May 29, 2024 | Agrocomplex Tkacheva closed the deal to purchase a dairy plant in Kuban from PepsiCo |
April 09, 2024 | PepsiCo's subsidiary in Russia almost tripled its profits |
April 02, 2024 | PepsiCo launched the production of Lay's chips near Novosibirsk |
April 01, 2024 | The first stage of the Pepsico snacks plant was launched near Novosibirsk |
April 01, 2024 | PepsiCo has opened a new salty snacks plant near Novosibirsk. Possibly on sanctioned equipment |
April 01, 2024 | Trademarks of PEPSICO HOLDINGS LLC – Khimki – General Director Mikhailov M.V. – Taxpayer Identification Number 7705034202 |
March 07, 2024 | The Minister of Defense gave a directive to end the sale of the products still available in Russia under the administration |
January 11, 2024 | Global beverage giant PepsiCo bans mention of war and Ukrainian Armed Forces in ads |
January 10, 2024 | 'No support for Ukraine and its army': PepsiCo restricts mentions of war in its PR |
October 05, 2023 | BT Group, Carlsberg, Burger King, Unilever, Shell, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, L’Oreal: Who is still in Russia? - Proactive Investors |
October 02, 2023 | Companies from the USA are the most in the ranking of foreign businesses in Russia |
September 21, 2023 | This morning Russian missile destroyed a Pepsi plant near Kyiv |
September 02, 2023 | Happy to see that @SAS are taking swift action and have already announced a boycott of @PepsiCo products due to their continued business in russia and financially fueling russias war! |
September 01, 2023 | PepsiCo - International sponsor of war | War and sanctions |
September 01, 2023 | You’re not you when you continue to work in the Russian Federation: the NACP added PepsiCo and Mars to the list of international sponsors of the war |
September 01, 2023 | Calls for American Food Giants, Mars and PepsiCo, to exit Russia as Ukraine names them ‘International Sponsors of War’ |
August 10, 2023 | Chistaya Liniya launches production of ice cream under the PepsiCo brand |
July 26, 2023 | Western Companies in Russia Fear Further Asset Grabs by the Kremlin |
July 07, 2023 | PepsiCo, Mars See Business Boom in Russia After Staying Behind |
July 07, 2023 | "Business to Stay: A Closer Look at Multinational Income and Taxes in Russia in 2022". |
June 07, 2023 | Letter sent by B4Ukraine to the company (no response provided) |
May 22, 2023 | PepsiCo, Jameson. How international companies return to the Russian market |
March 07, 2023 | PepsiCo launches Evervess cola and Favorite Cola |
February 17, 2023 | PepsiCo response |
February 13, 2023 | CSO coalition urges companies engaged in business with Russia to take immediate steps in response to ongoing war against Ukraine, incl. cos. responses & non-responses |
February 08, 2023 | FORM 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 |
January 22, 2023 | BP, Siemens and PepsiCo branded ‘hypocrites’ for donating to Ukraine while failing to fully exit Russia |
December 22, 2022 | Made in EU. How Sandora juice returned to supermarket shelves and what happened to the factory in Mykolaiv |
September 20, 2022 | PepsiCo ends Pepsi, 7UP production in Russia months after promising halt over Ukraine |
July 12, 2022 | PepsiCo reflects a quarterly loss of $1.17 billion due to the impairment of assets in the Russian Federation |
July 01, 2022 | Companies that are suspending business in Russia have not stopped, Pepsi is the latest giant to do so |
March 09, 2022 | PepsiCo will suspend the sale of drinks and investments in Russia |
March 09, 2022 | PepsiCo suspends drink sales in Russia; supply of dairy “essentials” continues |
March 08, 2022 | PepsiCo suspends production and sale of Pepsi-Cola and other global beverage brands in Russia |