Founded in 1927, Acosta Sales & Marketing Company is one of the leading in-store sales, marketing and service companies throughout the North America. The company offers a range of services for headquarter and retail selling, category management, product imaging and space technology. Its sales services focus on promoting its client s products, correcting voids and ensuring compliance. Its clients and customer business managers work together to plan, analyze, execute and sell products. Acosta Sales & Marketing Company works with various food and grocery retailers and is a three-time winner of the Consumer 360 award for excellence in category management. The company serves more than 1,000 consumer packaged goods companies. Acosta Sales & Marketing Company employs more than 10,000 sales and marketing professionals who assist clients throughout the United States. It is headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., and maintains one of its offices in Urbandale, Iowa.
On February 26th, 2010, PepsiCo completed its mergers with PAS and PBG to strengthen its North American beverage business. The North American bottling operations of PAS and PBG are now an operating unit of PepsiCo known as Pepsi Beverages Company. PBC operates in the United States, Canada and Mexico and encompasses approximately 75 percent of PepsiCo's North American beverage volume. PBC's diverse portfolio includes some of the world's most widely recognized beverage brands, including Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Aquafina, Gatorade, SoBe, Lipton and Amp Energy. PBC also manufactures and distributes third-party brands in key local markets such as Dr Pepper, Crush, Rock Star and Muscle Milk. The operating unit is headquartered in Westchester County, New York.
