PepsiCo, Inc. (Form: 8-K)  

 


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

     
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):   September 17, 2014

PepsiCo, Inc.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

     
North Carolina 1-1183 13-1584302
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(State or other jurisdiction
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(Commission
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(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
      
700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York   10577
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:   914-253-2000

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On September 17, 2014, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of PepsiCo, Inc. ("PepsiCo") elected Dr. David C. Page as an independent member of the Board, effective November 20, 2014. Dr. Page will serve on the Audit Committee of the Board, effective November 20, 2014.

Upon joining the Board on November 20, 2014, Dr. Page will receive an award for new non-employee directors under PepsiCo’s non-employee director compensation program. Under this program, Dr. Page will receive, on November 20, 2014, an initial stock award of 1,000 shares of PepsiCo Common Stock and a prorated annual equity award equal to a number of phantom stock units determined by dividing $137,500 by the closing price of PepsiCo Common Stock. Each phantom stock unit is intended to be the economic equivalent of a share of PepsiCo Common Stock. In addition, Dr. Page is entitled to an annual cash retainer with the first semi-annual payment of $55,000 to be made in June 2015.

Dr. Page, 58, currently serves as the director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, an independent nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"). He also serves as a professor of biology at MIT and as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.






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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

         
    PepsiCo, Inc.
          
September 19, 2014   By:   /s/ Cynthia Nastanski
       
        Name: Cynthia Nastanski
        Title: Senior Vice President, Corporate Law and Deputy Corporate Secretary