Cultural branding: PepsiCo's strategy for the 'multicultural mainstream'
Geoffrey PrecourtWarc
The message from PepsiCo seems to be a new mantra for major American marketers: "We are in the middle of a re-birth – a re-mission – to what we call cultural branding."
Echoing many other speakers at the Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) Multicultural Marketing and Diversity Conference in Miami Breach, Simon Lowden, CMO of PepsiCo's Pepsi Bottling Co., used his keynote to declare a simple message: multicultural is the new mainstream.
Lowden, just four months into his job, paid tribute to Pepsi's "great heritage in what...