Thiruvananthapuram: Pepsi, a popular soft drink company in India, has decided to close its factory in Palakkad, Kerala. PepsiCo has been shut down due to workers’ strikes and protests. About 500 people have lost their jobs as a result. About 15 years ago, another soft drink company in Coke closed its factory in the state. The PepsiCo factory in Palakkad was run by its franchise Barun Beverages Limited. The company has finally issued a notice to the state labor department to shut it down. The SIT affiliated with the CPI (M), the INTUC affiliated with the Congress and the Indian Workers’ Union affiliated with the RSS staged major protests. These organizations demanded that the wages of contract workers should be increased.The company did not take a decision on the claim for a year. As a result, most employees have not been working for the company since December, which is why production was affected PepsiCo management then closed the factory on March 22 The announcement was made today by the company The factory was established in 2001 in Palakkad It produced Pepsi brand packaged drinking water and soft drinks.
