date:Dec 18, 2012
8.7% to 9.6%. Diet Coke, which still only uses aspartame, overtook regular Pepsi to become the No. 2 soda brand in 2010.
Coke remains No. 1 and Pepsi is No. 3.
Still, Diet Pepsi rakes in roughly $5 billion in a year in revenue and remains one of PepsiCo's biggest moneymakers. The company, based in Purchase, N.Y., also makes Frito-Lay snacks, Tropicana juices and Quaker oatmeal.
It's not the first time a soda company is tweaking the sweeteners in its drinks; PepsiCo made a similar move with D