Frito Reality Show

“Oh! My God…”, said Nishi Malhotra, the ever so happening EA to our CEO, almost creating a mini quake in my cubicle. Other 2 fellow colleagues looked at me as if I was surfing some other sort of ‘interesting’ stuff. Let me tell you nothing unusual needs to happen to get such overly exaggerated statements from our folks in the office. I was just casually flipping through the drafts of my newsletter when she caught Dhoni’s pics peeping from the pile. The cascading effect takes place and another one joins in, “ Wow…Dhoni, look at his biceps, he sooooooooo cute!” "Dhoni is cute indeed", I agreed.

These pics are live from our promo that is currently running with our products called Chala Change ka Chakkar (CCC in short) details of which I had posted some time back on this blog (check out guys..its for real!). FritoLay gave three thrilled fans a chance to live their favorite stars life – Dhoni’s, Saif Ali Khan’s and Juhi Chawla’s through this promo. In this pic Dhoni is checking out Hiren's bike…how cool.. (Nishi would have almost imagined herself sitting behind him). He also went to Hiren’s office and tried his hand on answering a few calls and assembling a few sockets, prepared some tea for his family while Hiren was off to being a cricketing superstar. Hiren enjoyed a meal at Dhoni’s favorite Dhaba while Dhoni was enjoying a game of gully cricket with Hiren’s mother and boys of his building. “I ended the day reliving my experiences over a cup of tea at a tea stall overlooking the Ranchi landscape”, said the youngster. “It was a perfect end to a perfect day.”

Another 20 year old Paras Kakkar swapped lives with Juhi, complete with being pampered at a spa, picking out an elaborate wardrobe, getting a make over and doing a photo shoot in a true star style. And well, Juhi was in a for surprise because it turned out that it was Paras’s parents anniversary and she was incharge of their surprise party!! She cooked Paranthas with the ladies of the house.

Umed Rana, the lucky man from Bhiwana got to live Saif Ali Khan’s life for a day. Not surprisingly his schedule involved getting fit. “I followed his fitness routine, workout at his gym and a dance rehearsal at the end of the day, full on Bollywood ishtyle! Saif in the meantime did shopping with his family at a mall, went go-karting with his kids and had meal with them. He also played guitar while kids did a small dance performance.

Well, can we have a ‘Live life of your Boss’ kinda internal contest in here? Is anyone listening?

Ok Abhijit, you say good bye and wash your hands off this Blog..but you bet, there is something special to this organization which made you write this emotional note. You miss Frito-Lay..don't you? In the meantime we’d like to continue reckoning and marveling at our rehires which reached no. 14 last month.

To start with let me announce that PepsiCo is named among world’s Top 20 Most Admired Companies in the World! PepsiCo has been recognized by Fortune and Business Week magazines recently as "Top 50 Performing Companies in the U.S.," as well as the list for Fortune's "World's Most Admired Companies."

PepsiCo made Fortune magazine's the list at #13 on their "World's Most Admired Companies." The magazine's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry. To read the full list, visit http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/globalmostadmired/2008/top50/index.html.
PepsiCo was also #31 in the BW50, which represent BusinessWeek's picks as the top performers in each of the 10 sectors that make up the S&P 500. To select this year's winners, BusinessWeek ran the S&P 500 through a proprietary screen that ranks those companies within sectors by two key metrics: return on investment and sales growth over the past three years, and for financial-service firms, their returns on equity and growth in assets. To read about the list, visit http://www.businessweek.com/bw50

THE RETURN OF ABHIJIT BHADURI

We’d like to announce that Abhijit Bhaduri has decided to return to PepsiCo owning to the emotional farewell he got from the team and the peer group. Over a quick phone call to our CEO he mentioned that he could not give up thinking about the good times he spent at PepsiCo and that he cannot afford to miss the excitement and passion that runs through FritoLay India Snacks team. He broke down looking at the scrap book presented to him. Upon hearing him sob and snivel, his family had to literally break the door to find out if he was alright. Attached is the glimpse of the farewell booklet we presented to Abhijit and a few clips from the AV we presented to him as a small token of affection.

Just kidding ….just a small way of celebrating fools day guys…Abhijit is perfectly sane, healthy and happy doing some great stuff at U.S. of A