Together, these actions will dramatically sharpen our focus as a corporation, position us for strong consistent growth and, ultimately, help us to create a bigger, more profitable future for PepsiCo and its shareholders,
Our strength was broad-based, with solid earnings growth across every business, domestic and international, ... Our sharp focus on convenient food and beverages is paying off and we expect consistently healthy results to continue throughout 2001.
Our goal is to produce consistent earnings growth of about 15 percent a year, (but) despite remarkably strong performances by many of our businesses, we fell well short of that in 1996,
We had a great year out of international last year and I expect to see real good growth this year,
The changes we made last year, especially our restaurant spin-off, are allowing us to post good earnings per share growth at the same time as we invest aggressively to build our businesses for the future,