FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 41
(2004 Rank: Return to the list)
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PepsiCo
Purchase
President and CEO, Pepsi-Cola North America
PEP
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| The woman with the golden marketing touch — she was behind the "Joy of Cola" campaign — is now calling the shots at PepsiCo's North American beverages division. |
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From the November 14, 2005 issue
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| Highest pay |
| These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005. |
| Young and powerful |
| Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s. |
| Perennial powers |
| These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998. |
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