Sustainability Factor Associated with PepsiCo and Indra Nooyi's Vision for Sustainable Growth

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1SUSTAINABILITY
The aim of this essay is to discuss the sustainability factor associated with the well
reputed Global company PepsiCo and it’s so Indra Nooyi whose vision have changed the
perceptions of the Global food companies in achieving sustainable growth. PepsiCo has recently
revealed its Global corporate agenda which emphasizes social accountability and health. This
may seem like difficult for a company which till now is best known for promoting junk food.
However, after Indra Nooyi became the Chairman and CEO of the company, she is committed to
make the products healthy r cover encouraging that environmental responsibility and
empowering its employees.
Indra Nooyi was born in October 28, 1955 in India, consistently tanks among the world’s
100 most powerful women since 2014. She served as business executive and board of director in
Amazon the largest E-Commerce business by net revenue. In 2018 the International Cricket
Council has announced that she will be joining the ICC board as the first independent female
director. PepsiCo in 1994 and got the CEO position in 2001. In 2006 she was the president of the
company and directed The Global strategy of PepsiCo leading its restructuring (Rubens, Leah &
Schoenfeld, 2016). The strategic directions of company under Nooyi has been proved successful
largely. She had classified the products of the company into three categories which include “fun
for you”, “be for you” and “good for you”. The aim of her sustainability strategies in the
company was to reduce the issues of obesity among the American people. She does not like
obese consumers that burden Public Health system. Therefore, she started the nutrition
movement within PepsiCo. She understood sustainability of the company’s business depends on
the investment in healthy future for the consumers. This perfectly aligns with the demand of
healthy food and Lifestyle growing among the recent American consumers and for that matter in
the whole world.

2SUSTAINABILITY
PepsiCo’s mission statement comments to invest its people, company and the
communities to promote long term and sustainable growth where they operate. Its mission is to
provide the consumers around the world with affordable, delicious, convenient as well as
complimentary beverages and food starting from breakfast to snacks and evening treats. The
vision statement of PepsiCo is to integrate sustainability with its business strategy and leave a
position in society as well as the environment. The company calls it performance with purpose
which allows the company provide a range of food and beverages from intelligent to nutrition. It
conserves precious natural resources as well as foster the environmental responsibilities
(PepsiCo.com, 2019). In addition to this the company also support communities in the places it
works, by career generation. These Vision and Mission statements of PepsiCo have influenced
Indra Nooyi to focus on making the products healthier than before. It is the way to gain
sustainability and fulfilling responsibilities towards the customers. In Indra Nooyi believes in
detailing every information of the products honestly to the consumers and sale only those
products which can make them proud. It is the main aim of the company to care for the
customers as well as the world it lives in.
Indra Nooyi as a leader, has perfectly captured the consumers and their consumption
preferences to promote the growth. She finds these two factors are evidently the key to
sustainable development of the company. She possesses a transformational leadership style
where changes become quite easy and acceptable (Pio, Kilpatrick & Le Fevre, 2017). She has
made the business think of the situation where a sizeable number of the product will not be
accepted by the consumers if not have any healthy message with it. With her leadership style, she
has perfectly caught the consumption trend of buying green products and made strategies to
bring overall changes in philosophy of the company (Rao & Purkayastha, 2017).