He bought the name 'Pep Kola' from a local competitor and changed it to Pepsi-Cola." But even that description doesn't tell the whole story. As the Los Angeles Times explained in 2017, the "Pepsi ...

The new name got its roots from the word dyspepsia, which means indigestion, along with its key ingredient of kola nuts, ...

The figures from research group Nielsen showed that Fritz-Kola sold 71 million glass bottles of that size in 2019, compared with 74 million at Coke, and just 337,000 at Pepsi. While Coke and Pepsi ...

Speaking at Beverage Digest's "Future Smarts" conference in New York City, Nooyi said that craft soda, like PepsiCo's own Caleb's Kola, may be the key to restoring some of cola's allure.