"Pepsi has the leading market share in the U.S. in sports drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, bottled water, juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and the number two position in carbonated soft drinks, " notes Stack.

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But he says there will be a smaller number of firms that can fund companies up and down the stack, from early stage to late stage.

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For example, during the course of the relationship, Arsenal players David Grondin, Liam Chilvers, John Halls and Graham Stack all spent successful loan periods at Beveren as did Emmanuel Eboue, who played in a number of trial matches with Arsenal whilst contracted to Beveren.

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Among tech companies, different strategies are emerging as some companies decide to be specialized niche players while a very small number of other tech vendors choose to play at one or more levels of the 3-tier cloud stack: applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS).

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