PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi comes under fire as Donald Trump council splinters

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi joined Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum on 14 December and hasn’t spoken out against the administration since then. Photo: Mint

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi joined Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum on 14 December and hasn’t spoken out against the administration since then. Photo: Mint

PepsiCo Inc. chief executive officer Indra Nooyi is being targeted by Color of Change, a non-profit racial justice group that has previously gone after Uber Technologies Inc. and Walt Disney Co.

The organization is pressuring Nooyi to step down from Donald Trump’s business advisory council after the president was slow to condemn white-supremacist violence last weekend in Virginia. Campbell Soup Co. CEO Denise Morrison, another Trump adviser, will be a target of the campaign as well, said Rashad Robinson, executive director of the group, which claims 1 million online members.

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