PepsiCo Bought Poppi. Then It Launched Its Own Cola Anyway.
PepsiCo paid close to $2 billion for Poppi, then built and launched a competing prebiotic cola nationwide anyway. What that means for any food and beverage brand banking on an acquisition as the exit, plus the copy, still, and shot list to defend the one asset a bigger checkbook can't buy.
02 Sep 2026