/ Aswentong/August 02, 2022, Guangzhou -- strong> enables nutrition innovation and helps create China
During the 15th National Conference on Nutrition Science, The "Chinese Nutrition Society - Pepsi Nutrition Innovation Center" jointly established by PepsiCo and the Chinese Nutrition Society was officially inaugurated. Chinese Nutrition Society and PepsiCo leadership as well as domestic nutrition experts and scholars attended the unveiling ceremony.
"Chinese Nutrition Society - Pepsi Nutrition Innovation Center" will integrate the resource advantages of industry, universities and research institutes, jointly promote the scientific research and innovation of the food and beverage industry, and contribute to the national policy of scientific innovation and healthy China. In the future, PepsiCo R&D team and nutrition Science and Technology Service team experts will conduct scientific research on whole grains, sports nutrition and "three minus" topics, focusing on the development and innovation of local nutritious and healthy food. The establishment of the Nutrition Innovation Center will be conducive to the integration of technological research and development advantages of both sides, through the sharing of technical data resources, opening up the industry-university-research, enabling the supply chain, and also conducive to focus on health nutrition research in the field of food and beverage technology. "For more than 40 years, PepsiCo has been focusing on consumers, increasing local investment, local innovation and research and development," said Xie Chang 'an, CEO of PepsiCo Greater China. The establishment of Pepsi Nutrition Innovation Center is one of the important measures of the company's development in China. Under the guidance of Kechuang China, we will join hands with the Chinese Nutrition Society to promote the development of nutrition and health in the industry, explore the transformation of scientific research, and better enhance the innovation and competitiveness of the food and beverage industry." Yang Yuexin, president of the Chinese Society of Nutrition, said that the Chinese society of Nutrition is willing to build an innovation platform and bridge, and build technical services that integrate resources and connect supply and demand, to support PepsiCo's participation in the systematic project to improve nutrition and health of residents. Further give play to the brand resource advantage of "Science and Innovation in China" of the China Association for Science and Technology, strengthen front-end scientific research enabling, organically integrate with the integration of industry, university and research, guide the development and innovation of nutritious and healthy food, so that science and technology can better serve the economic development and the construction of a healthy China.
As an academic organization composed of national nutrition scientists, the Chinese Nutrition Society is an important social force in developing the science and technology of nutrition in China. Since the China Association for Science and Technology proposed to build the brand of "Science and Innovation in China", the Chinese Nutrition Society has actively explored the integration of industrial demand and scientific and technological innovation, promoted the development of nutrition disciplines and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and opened a new chapter of in-depth cooperation in nutrition innovation. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, PepsiCo has always focused on the health needs of Chinese consumers. In 2012, PepsiCo established its largest and most integrated R&D center in Asia -- PepsiCo Asia R&D Center in China to accelerate the research and development of healthy foods such as nutritious cereals and reduced sugar, fat and salt products. In recent years, PepsiCo has made continuous efforts in the field of food and nutrition innovation. Quaker's products won the iSEE Award for Global Food Innovation in 2021 and 2022. For example, Quaker mining through big data to the main consumer demand segmentation demand for cereal products, and sharp insight into the consumer's new demand for salty cereal taste, innovation to open up the salty cereal circuit; In view of consumers' insight into Chinese nutrition and health, Quaker industry is the first Quaker 5 black, 5 red, 5 white oats, leading a new nutrition boom.
Pepsi products are consumed more than a billion times a day in more than 200 countries. PepsiCo's net revenue in 2021 exceeded $79 billion, thanks to its complementary beverage and snack food lineup, which includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Quaker and SodaStream Sparkling Water. PepsiCo owns a number of iconic brands that are beloved by consumers and generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales.
Adhering to the philosophy of "PepsiCo is planning", PepsiCo's vision is to become a global leader in beverages and snack foods. The Pepsi Plan is an overall strategic transformation centered on sustainable development. The company will achieve value creation and growth by operating in accordance with the Earth ecosystem and bringing positive change to people and the planet, so as to achieve the vision of "harmonious coexistence between the earth and people".
