The largest PepsiAmericas bottling factory in Europe, built in Ilfov

PepsiAmericas, the second Pepsi - Cola large bottler worldwide, built in Dragomiresti, Ilfov County, the largest factory in Europe of this company, following an investment amounting to USD 150 M, where it relocated part of the activities from Bucharest.

The construction stretches on 30,000 square meters, based on company information, cited by Mediafax. The official opening of the factory is scheduled for September 1. The production unit is developed in the Western side of the Capital, in the area of the surrounding ring of Bucharest - Pitesti motorway. PepsiAmericas took over fully, in 2007, the group Quadrant - Amroq Bottling (QAB), producer and distributor of Pepsi beverages in Romania.

QAB Romania has two production units for soft drinks in Bucharest and one in Covasna for mineral water. At the beginning of August, PepsiCo, the second large producer of soft drinks worldwide informed that they have concluded a take-over agreement of the two largest bottlers of their own products, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, against USD 7.8 bln. PepsiAmericas sales decreased worldwide, in the second quarter, by 6 per cent, to USD 1.26 bln, from USD 1.34 bln during the same time period of last year. Net profit amounted to USD 62.4 M, down by 35 per cent, from USD 95.6 M.

Within Central and Eastern Europe area, PepsiAmericas sales diminished by 32 per cent in Q2 compared to the same amount of time of the previous year, to USD 246 M, because of a negative impact of 27 per cent brought by volatility in the foreign exchange markets. In the region, Pepsi is active in Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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