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PepsiCo is nearing completion of a €127 million investment in an additional manufacturing facility for beverage ingredients and further investment in its R&D campus at Little Island, Cork.
The new facility uses state-of-the-art manufacturing technology in manufacturing global brands, including Pepsi Max, Gatorade, 7Up, and Mountain Dew. The site will expand the company’s manufacturing capacity across its wide range of products.
According to PepsiCo, it will also “bring its innovation pipeline to its global customer base.”
The R&D campus supports beverage development, product research, quality assurance, testing and commercialization, and regulatory management.
In the past two years, PepsiCo’s Cork-based facility has increased its workforce by more than 20%, with 642 of the company’s 1,250 Irish employees based in Little Island, Cork.
The investment in the campus has provided employment to over 700 professionals during the design and construction phase.
Brian Colgan, site lead at PepsiCo Little Island, noted that the expansion will allow them to increase their manufacturing capacity and ensure that they can continue to meet the global demand their products.
Breda Kennedy, R&D senior director of PepsiCo, added that the continued investment will strengthen their ability to attract the best talent across food science, sensory and microbiology, engineering, analytics, and digital.
