What do you think this picture is? Sorta shocking if true.

sunkisses

I think to say it looks like the Twin Towers is reaching. When first shown this image on FB, I didn't make the connection. Surprisingly, NYC isn't the only city with tall buildings over which an airplane may fly.

vingogly

I have a special edition Mountain Dew bottle with an octopus on it. I'm sure the use of tentacles means that Pepsico supports Cthulhu.

Ok, I wasn't going to respond to this thread because I didn't want it to forever appear in "My Topics," but...

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Everybody Loves Cthulhu.

They'd better ... >:E

UsedToBeHusky

I would say that Pepsi has very very educated people on what to put on theirs cans and what NOT to put them for each martketing region. Obviously this wouldn't be on a can for the USA for OBVIOUS reasons. Everyone knows in the entire world what happened here and to me, it seems pretty close resemblence to 911. When I see people saying doubt be so senstive, I can understand this to a point because their are some serious ridiculous things that people get offended about but everyone has sensitive areas in their lives because of personal experiences they've gone thru so THAT in itself is what this is all about. Pepsi is smart enough not to put it on cans' here in the USA OBVIOUSLY because of one of the greatest terrorist attacks against this country, so my question is WHY DO IT AT ALL?

Because the image is meant to look like Dubai NOT New York. Why doesn't anyone understand how business works? Sure this is a Pepsi product, but technically, it is made by a company that Pepsi owns and is NOT Pepsi itself. This company is NOT marketing to Americans nor do they even consider that their might be a resemblance between this image and the 9/11 attacks, and therefore, would NOT be expecting to offend anyone. I'm not saying that 9/11 attacks shouldn't be treated sensitively, but you are talking about a marketing campaign in an entirely different part of the world. And it is absolutely ridiculous to get upset about something that is OBVIOUSLY not intentional.

Subsidiaries are like franchises. Pepsi Arabia pays Pepsi a fee to use its brand and shares in its profits. In return, Pepsi shares resources. The subsidiary's operations are almost completely independent of the company.

Besides, Pepsi has many many many subsidiaries as they also manufacture snack products like Lay's potato chips. There is no way that a company that large with that many operations around the world could possibly oversea the marketing campaigns of every product in every country.