America's Snack Leader Shares Advancements
Towards Its PepsiCo Positive Goals While Advancing its Mission to
Create More Smiles and a Brighter Future with Every
Bite
PLANO,
Texas, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This
Earth Month, Frito-Lay today announced it will deploy over 700
electric delivery vehicles in the U.S. by the end of 2023. The
vehicle deployments are expected to lower emissions by 7,052 metric
tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, equivalent to
1,533 passenger cars removed from the road. Paired with
advancements in regenerative agriculture, water saving technology,
packaging innovation and more, the move reflects the PepsiCo
division's significant progress toward its PepsiCo Positive
sustainability goals.
"Our mission is to create more smiles and a brighter future with
every bite," said Steven Williams,
PepsiCo Foods North America CEO. "As a collective of America's most
beloved brands, we have the unique opportunity to create a real
impact by boldly innovating the way food is grown, made and
shared."
As sustainability becomes a core topic among consumers,
Frito-Lay is using its iconic brands and its place at the table to
create positive change, ensuring consumers don't have to choose
between taste and impact.
"Frito-Lay's beloved brands have made millions of people smile
for almost a century. We see it as a great opportunity to ensure
our business contributes positively to the world," said
David Allen, vice president and
chief sustainability officer, PepsiCo Foods North America. "From
how our potatoes and corn are grown to how we make, transport, and
sell our products, Frito-Lay will continue to leverage our scale to
create real positive impact for people and our planet."
Frito-Lay is instrumental in PepsiCo Positive (pep+), a
strategic end-to-end transformation to drive sustainable long-term
value and competitive advantage. Three pillars
of pep+ drive action and industry-leading goals,
including:
Positive Agriculture
As a food company, Frito-Lay is
deeply rooted in regenerative agriculture processes that aim to
improve soil conditions, reduce carbon emissions, improve watershed
health and diversity, and strengthen farmer livelihoods in service
of a more sustainable food system.
By the numbers, the company:
- Has a 3.5-million-acre farming footprint of agricultural land
in the U.S., with a goal to use regenerative agriculture practices
across its entire footprint (7 million acres globally across
PepsiCo) by 2030
- Uses its agricultural supply chain to improve the livelihoods
of more than 12,000 U.S. farmers
- 100% of the corn and potatoes (1.5 million metric tons) used to
make Frito-Lay products in North
America are sustainably sourced, adhering to and providing
assurances for the social, environmental, and economic principles
of our Sustainable Farming Program (SFP)
Positive Value Chain
Introducing zero-and near-zero
emission vehicles across the nation marks a key step in achieving
the pep+ net-zero emissions goal by 2040.
"The introduction of electric vehicles throughout our owned
fleet and that of our partners is in direct support of our
commitment to building a circular and inclusive value chain," said
Laura Maxwell, senior vice president
of supply chain at PepsiCo Foods North America. "At our
Modesto, California, plant, we
have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 91% from direct fleet
operations, and we look forward to scaling that as we add electric
vehicles throughout the country."
Beyond electric vehicles, Frito-Lay is also marking progress on
renewable energy and water saving in pursuit of a sustainable value
chain through:
- Improved emissions from zero- and near-zero emission
technologies at the Frito-Lay manufacturing site in Modesto, Calif.
- A new electric fleet to serve the Dallas-Fort Worth area
- First-of-its-kind third-party transportation shipping with
Schneider National Inc., marking Frito-Lay as the first to contract
transport on Schneider's growing fleet of Freightliner eCascadia
battery-electric trucks in southern California
- Achieved 100 percent renewable electricity in all of its U.S.
plants, offices and distribution centers
- Recycling 75 percent of process water at the Frito-Lay
Casa Grande, Ariz. manufacturing
facility
Positive Choices By purposely incorporating more diverse
ingredients, sister companies Frito-Lay and The Quaker Oats Company
are making choices that deliver nutritional benefits. This includes
prioritizing chickpeas, plant-based proteins and whole grains, such
as:
- Off The Eaten Path®, which are made with rice and real
veggies like peas, chickpeas or black beans.
- Our Bare® Snacks portfolio which are real fruits
and coconut snacks, baked to crunchy perfection.
- SunChips® Black Bean (Spicy Jalapeno and Southwestern
Queso flavors) chips, made with whole grains and real cooked black
beans.
- Quaker® Oats offer a variety of 100% whole grain oat hot
cereal options that provide whole grains and a good source of fiber
to consumers.
- Quaker® offers a variety of ready to eat cereal options
that provide 24 to 46 grams of whole grains per serving such as
Life Cereal, Quaker Simply Granola, Quaker Protein Granola and
Quaker Puffed Granola.
- Quaker® Rice Thins combine decadent flavors of
salted caramel or cocoa in a popped corn and whole grain brown rice
with 14 to 18 grams of whole grain per serving.
- PopCorners® is an air-popped, never fried snack that
combines bold flavors with wholesome ingredients for a
flavor-packed crunch.
- Natuchips™ made from real sliced plantains
As another step along its pep+ journey, Frito-Lay and Quaker
together are designing 100% of packaging to be recyclable,
compostable, biodegradable or reusable by 2025. The company opened
a new industry-leading Greenhouse Learning Center earlier this
month that will test the biodegradation properties of packaging
materials in different environments.
About Frito-Lay North America
Frito-Lay North America is the $23 billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP), which is headquartered in Purchase, NY. Frito-Lay snacks include Lay's
and Ruffles potato chips, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips and
branded dips, Cheetos snacks, Stacy's pita chips, PopCorners
popped-corn snack, SunChips multigrain snacks and Fritos corn
chips. The company operates 30+ manufacturing facilities across the
U.S. and Canada, more than 200
distribution centers and services 315,000 retail customers per week
through its direct-store-delivery model. Learn more about Frito-Lay
at the corporate website, www.fritolay.com, on Twitter (@fritolay),
on Instagram (@fritolay) and on Facebook (Frito-Lay).
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