Corner Office Conversation with Ravi Kant Jaipuria, The Man Behind Pepsi’s Fizz

Ravi Kant Jaipuria, Chairman of RJ Corp is responsible for 1/6th of the world guzzling Pepsi. His company Varun Beverages is PepsiCo’s best bottler in the world. The markets love the company whose stock has surged by 300% in two years. But there’s much more to Jaipuria’s nearly $3 billion business empire: QSRs, tea parlours, stem cells and schools.

In a candid chat with host Ratna Bhushan on The Morning Brief, Jaipuria talks about how he keeps the fizz in his business intact after so many years. He also shares international expansion plans, acquisition ambitions, impact of climate change on his operations, Reliance as a rival and never before insights on succession.

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