Pepsi Bottling Group Begins $27 Million Expansion in California

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The following is an advisory by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources Inc.; Houston, Texas). Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. (Somers, NY) (NYSE: PBG) has begun work on a $27 million project to expand capacity at their Riverside, California soft drink bottling plant.

Plans include the addition of a third hi-speed 1,000 unit per minute bottling line that will fill 500 ml, 20 oz and 24 oz bottles plus a 40,000 square foot warehouse and distribution building to increase capacity by 10 million cases per year. In addition to the expansion, a new syrup batching system and water system will be installed along with utilities upgrades to handle the increase in volume.

Saint Onge Ruff & Associates (York, Pa) has been selected as the A&E firm and Camco Construction Inc (Salt Lake City, Ut) will provide general contracting services on the project and is expected to be completed by May 2002. The expansion represents the third major investment in the plant since it was built in 1990.

The plant, located at 6659 Sycamore Canyon Boulevard in Riverside, will also add 12 jobs to an existing workforce of about 450 people and roughly three acres will be paved for parking areas and traffic control purposes.

The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. is the world's largest seller, manufacturer and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages with operations in the U.S., Canada, Greece, Russia, and Spain. Recently they posted a third quarter earnings jump of 16 percent and announced a 2-for-1 stock split.