Coke and Pepsi boycott over Gaza lifts Muslim countries' local sodas
A corner store salesman carries Pepsi drinks as he delivers them to his customer in Isa Town/ By Ariba Shahid, Jessica DiNapoli and Farah Saafan KARACHI/CAIRO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades building demand for their soft drinks in Muslim-majority countries including Egypt to Pakistan. Now, both face a challenge from local sodas in those countries due to consumer boycotts that target the globe-straddling brands as symbols of America, and by extension Israel, at a time of ...
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