Inside PepsiCo’s beverage overhaul: a Gatorade reboot, the $2 billion Poppi buy, and a gut-health play, all under activist scrutiny

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As a trained engineer, Ram Krishnan loves to nerd out on the science of Gatorade.The CEO of PepsiCo’s U.S. Beverages division wants to know things like ‘What is the optimal balance between sodium and potassium given the different ‘sweating’ profiles of Gatorade users?” He’ll ask his…

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