"Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG), is the world's largest manufacturer, seller and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages, with annual sales of nearly $13 billion," says David Fried, a long-standing specialist in companies engaged in corporate repurchases.

The editor of The Buyback Letter, "Pepsi Bottling has gobbled up its own shares, reducing shares outstanding by 5.2% in the past 12 months." Here is his review.

"What is a Pepsi Bottling Group beverage, besides Pepsi? A better question might be what isn't, since Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Aquafina, Tropicana, Mug Root Beer, Lipton, SoBe, Starbucks Frappuccino, Dole, 7UP, KAS, Aqua Minerale, Mirinda, Manzanita Sol, Dr Pepper, Squirt, Electropura, e-pura, and Garci Crespo, among
others, are all part of the PBG drink portfolio.

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