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LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles tonight as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the tenth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year awards. Gatorade National Football Player of the Year Johnathan Gray (Aledo High School/Aledo, Texas) was named the 2012 Gatorade Male High School Athlete of the Year and Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year Breanna...

PURCHASE, N.Y., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today announced the opening of a new food manufacturing facility in Wuhan, China. The plant, which is PepsiCo's sixth food manufacturing site in its Greater China Region, is part of the company's plans to drive the continued growth of its China business and expand further into central and western China. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120424/NY93895LOGO) The Wuhan plant is the...

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 27th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Abraham Hall of South Grand Prairie High School (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Shelbi Vaughan of Legacy High School (Mansfield, Texas) as its 2011-12 Gatorade National Track & Field Athletes of the Year. Hall and Vaughan were surprised with the news by Emmitt Smith, former Gatorade National Football...

CHICAGO, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and The Gatorade Company have teamed up to declare July 11, 2012, a day when U.S. sports takes a break from competition, the first annual National Recovery Day. With high school athletes suffering two million injuries each year(1), National Recovery Day has been established to focus the attention of athletes on the importance of proper athletic recovery in order to continuously perform at...

PURCHASE, N.Y., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi and Billboard today announced the first-ever "Summer Beats Concert Series." This new and exciting program will include three Twitter enabled shows during music's hottest season featuring performances by Billboard chart-topping artists across multiple genres, marking yet another extension of Pepsi's "Live for Now" global campaign. The series will kick off on Tuesday, June 26th with a surprise performance in Los Angeles, followed by...

PURCHASE, N.Y., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi is kicking off the summer by asking fans to bring their soccer skills to the Pepsi Clasico de Calle street soccer tournament. California soccer fans can log on to miPepsi.com through July 14 to register for a chance to become one of five players on the 2012 Pepsi Calle All Stars team. The Pepsi Clasico de Calle is being hosted by five cities including: Bakersfield, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose. The Pepsi...

CHICAGO, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 23, 1972 the passage of Title IX granted women access to the same federally funded programs as men and got millions of girls in the game. But, 40 years later there's still work to be done. As a proud partner of the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), Gatorade is dedicated to building awareness and raising funds by launching a nationwide PSA and social media campaign and creating KeepHerInTheGame.org, where supporters can donate to...

PURCHASE, N.Y., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today announced that Mauro Porcini will join the company in the newly created role of Chief Design Officer. Porcini, who formerly held the same role at 3M, will be responsible for infusing design thinking into PepsiCo's organization and culture by globally managing design with a creative, innovative and consumer-centered approach for PepsiCo's brands, with a strong focus on its top 12 global brands - Pepsi,...

TAMPA, Fla., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 27th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Lance McCullers of Jesuit High School (Tampa, Fla.) as its 2011-12 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year. McCullers was surprised with the news by three-time MLB All-Star and current MLB Network broadcaster, Sean Casey. "It felt great to surprise Lance with the Gatorade National Baseball Player...

PURCHASE, N.Y., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi and Twitter today announced "Live for Now Music," a global music partnership that will bring people closer to the artists they care about and help them easily discover new music, all through Twitter. Through this partnership, an extension of Pepsi's recently announced "Live for Now" global campaign, Twitter's more than 140 million users can listen to and discover more music through free weekly music downloads, music-focused...