Healthy soda? It sounds impossible, but Pepsi and Coke are planning to run head-to-head with that pitch as their new competitive marketing plans. Both companies will be offering vitamin-fortified drinks in a new category called “sparkling beverages.” The announcement comes as the health mega-trend gains even more steam and unit soda sales continue to drop.
In the next three years, Exxon plans to embark on 25 new projects that would together increase production by 1 million barrels of oil per day. Chief executive Rex Tillerson said the world’s largest publicly traded oil company will pour about $20 billion into capital spending every year until 2011.
Top political figures in the UK, including Tony Blair, are voicing support for a new bill that would improve workplace safety for young people and hold corporate directors responsible for accidents. The bill would provide funding for inspection/certification and would make a “workplace hazard course” mandatory for high school sophomores.
Workplace drug-use has dropped to the lowest level since 1988, a new survey shows. Amphetamine and marijuana use are down significantly and the overall count of positive test results is 3.8 percent, down from 4.1 percent in 2005. But the survey says nothing about the biggest drug problem in the workplace: alcohol.