I’m from the FLNA side but not in sales… so can folks explain why today’s Steve Llewelyn retirement news and John Dean promotion is good or bad? The context would be so appreciated for those of us not in sales. Thanks y’all.
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@dm Pepsi divided all of their depts last year. They are all their own entity - warehouse PES drivers fleet and sales
@d4 Quaker is already integrated into Frito as PFNA. They merged over the last 5 years or so unit by unit
Sorry if stupid question. If FLNA and PBNA are ops are combined with then where does Quaker go? (a genuine question. I don’t know anything about that business) does it get sold off? I realize it doesn’t operate on the same model but wondering how the puzzle pieces come together
Heard very similar theories. Wow! There’s a tremendous amount of coordination to combine two separate operations and different approaches to business . Wish everyone luck. S~~~show.
@OP the running theory is that FLNA and PBNA operations will be merged. Layoffs to remove “redundancy” between the two organizations and executives strategically retired and shuffled between the two
You need to double quote "Voluntary Retirement."
Looks like they're following the blueprint. Targeted Senior Leadership will "retire" or leave for better opportunities.
The next step will be for everyone else. Guess next week will be the buffalo sla-ghter week.
They found a home for one of the Division Presidents. He was the President of West Division. This is how they operate in secrecy they take care of their own first. 4 Beverage Divisions will be gone. Don’t need all these President and VPs. PepsiCo sc--wed the beverage side up and trying to fix is impossible. Need to sell it go back to bottler model.
The thought is this is fall out from the reorg. The churn has begun and most people are waiting to see the next shoe drop
There is nothing about it other than speculation that it was a voluntary retirement from Steve.