It is early $2022,$ and PepsiCo$$s Board of Directors has employed you as a consultant to assess

PepsiCo$$s diversified portfolio of businesses and to make recommendations as to what actions

PepsiCo$$s management team should now make to increase shareholder value.

Analysts of PepsiCo had been critical of the company in recent quarters. Their critique was that

additional corporate strategy actions needed to be taken in order to restore revenue and earnings

growth rates to their historical pace of growth. PepsiCo shareholders, as well, had increasingly

voiced their concerns regarding PepsiCo$$s stock price and had voiced their concerns in

shareholder meetings. PepsiCo shareholders had stated that PepsiCo$$s stock price appreciation

should at least be in line with overall stock market performance. PepsiCo management was under

pressure to respond quickly and effectively to these concerns, and PepsiCo$$s Board of Directors

has hired you in support of managerial efforts.

Your assignment is to recommend a set of three specific, measurable, and achievable actions for

the company to take to correct and remedy PepsiCo$$s lagging stock price performance. Please

prepare an executive summary report to PepsiCo$$s Board of Directors that crafts a corporate

strategy to put the company back on its historical path.