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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250530
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250530

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			PEPSICO INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000077476
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BEVERAGES [2080]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		EIN:				131584302
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NC
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1227

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-01183
		FILM NUMBER:		251011397

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		700 ANDERSON HILL RD
		CITY:			PURCHASE
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10577
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9142532000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		700 ANDERSON HILL ROAD
		CITY:			PURCHASE
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10577-1444

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PEPSI COLA CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19700903
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i351de338b0bb4dbeb41f519db909f7e8_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:3pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">__________________</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i41def84fce3a4ba79b6b230aabca998c_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit 1.01</font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">PepsiCo, Inc. Conflict Minerals Report</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">For the calendar year ended December 31, 2024</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:160%">Introduction and Background</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">This Conflict Minerals Report (this &#8220;Report&#8221;) of PepsiCo, Inc. (&#8220;PepsiCo&#8221;) was prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 (together with Form SD, the &#8220;Rule&#8221;) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a public company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products that contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of those products if the company has reason to believe that the conflict minerals may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the adjoining countries of Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia (the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;). As defined by the Rule, and for the purposes of this Report, the conflict minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives as limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (collectively, the &#8220;Conflict Minerals&#8221;).</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">PART I. COMPANY AND PRODUCT OVERVIEW </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo is a leading global convenient foods and beverage company with a complementary portfolio of brands, including Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. Through its operations, authorized bottlers, contract manufacturers and other third parties, PepsiCo makes, markets, distributes and sells a wide variety of convenient foods and beverages, serving customers and consumers in more than 200&#160;countries and territories. </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">On December 5, 2018, PepsiCo acquired all of the outstanding shares of SodaStream International Ltd. (&#8220;SodaStream&#8221;), a manufacturer and distributor of sparkling water makers. SodaStream develops, manufactures, distributes and sells sparkling water makers and exchangeable carbon-dioxide cylinders, along with consumables, including carbon-dioxide refills, reusable carbonation bottles and flavors to add to the sparkling water. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo conducted an analysis of the products that it manufactures or contracts to be manufactured and found that certain models of SodaStream&#8217;s sparkling water makers that were sold during calendar year 2024 contained electronic circuit boards and other electrical components which contain one or more Conflict Minerals. PepsiCo also determined that Conflict Minerals can be found in the brass components within SodaStream&#8217;s sparkling water makers and in the brass valves on SodaStream&#8217;s carbon-dioxide cylinders. While brass mainly consists of copper and zinc, brass may contain trace quantities of tin as an impurity in the other metals. These products are collectively referred to in this Report as the &#8220;Covered Products.&#8221; With the exception of the Covered Products, PepsiCo did not manufacture or contract to manufacture any other products that contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. </font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">As detailed below, based on the good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products, PepsiCo had reason to believe that certain of the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products may have originated in the Covered Countries and that such Conflict Minerals may not be from recycled or scrap sources.&#160;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">PART II.&#160;&#160;DESIGN OF CONFLICT MINERALS PROGRAM </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo&#8217;s due diligence measures have been designed to conform to, in all material respects, the five-step framework laid out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in its</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas&#58;&#160;Third Edition </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">1</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">(2016)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">including the related supplements on gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">(collectively, the &#8220;OECD Guidance&#8221;). However, as described above, with the exception of the Covered Products manufactured by SodaStream, PepsiCo does not manufacture or contract to manufacture products that contain Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of those products. Therefore, certain steps of the OECD Guidance have been designed by PepsiCo to be limited to SodaStream and its supply chain as detailed below.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">OECD Step 1&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%"> Establish strong Company management systems </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Conflict Minerals Policy</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo has adopted a Conflict Minerals Policy that sets forth its commitment to responsibly sourcing minerals and establishes its expectations of its suppliers. This policy is available on PepsiCo&#8217;s website. </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Information on PepsiCo&#8217;s website is not and should not be considered part of, nor is it incorporated by reference into, this Report.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Internal Management Systems </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo has an internal team consisting of cross-functional team members from the procurement, legal and finance departments charged with executing PepsiCo&#8217;s due diligence processes and with training employees outside of the team on their roles and responsibilities in connection with due diligence and compliance.   </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Supply Chain Controls System</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Neither PepsiCo nor SodaStream does any direct business with any smelters or refiners of Conflict Minerals. As &#8220;downstream&#8221; companies, generally there are multiple tiers between PepsiCo, SodaStream and the source of raw materials that enter the manufacturing process. Therefore, PepsiCo must rely on SodaStream&#8217;s direct suppliers to work with their upstream suppliers to provide PepsiCo with accurate information about the origin of Conflict Minerals in the materials and parts that are purchased by SodaStream for the Covered Products. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">For Covered Products, PepsiCo utilizes the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the &#8220;Template&#8221;) of the Responsible Business Alliance. The Template is designed to facilitate the transfer of information from suppliers in the supply chain regarding each mineral&#8217;s country of origin and the smelters and refiners being utilized for such mineral. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Supplier Engagement</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo communicates with its in-scope suppliers to ensure they are aware of the Rule and that</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> each in-scope supplier is expected to have a conflict minerals policy in place and to implement a system to trace the origin of any Conflict Minerals in its supply chain, including by collecting the information called for by the Template.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Grievance Mechanism</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo maintains a third-party confidential hotline service and conflict minerals e-mail address that provides a mechanism to ask questions or report concerns about potential violations of the Conflict Minerals Policy. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">2</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">OECD Step 2&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%"> Identify and assess risks in the supply chain</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">SodaStream identifies </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">those suppliers from which it purchases components or materials for the Covered Products that may include Conflict Minerals and provides a list of those suppliers to PepsiCo. SodaStream</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> then conducts an annual survey of these in-scope suppliers using the Template.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> Unresponsive suppliers are issued follow-up requests and survey responses are reviewed for completeness and accuracy. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">SodaStream received responses from all of the in-scope suppliers for calendar year 2024, including t</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">he names and locations of smelters and refiners from which such suppliers were able to determine it sourced Conflict Minerals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">. However, some suppliers indicated they were unable to identify all the smelters and refiners in their supply chains. The information received from suppliers was then analyzed and reviewed against the Responsible Minerals Initiative&#8217;s (</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">RMI&#8221;) list of smelters and refiners that have received an </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">active&#8221; or &#8220;conformant&#8221; designation through the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">RMAP&#8221;). </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">The RMAP &#8220;conformant&#8221; list is composed of smelters and refiners that have successfully completed an independent third-party audit and were found to h</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">ave systems and processes in place to support responsible sourcing of raw materials and can provide evidence to support their sourcing activities</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">. </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:130%">The RMAP &#8220;active&#8221; list includes those smelters or refiners that are currently engaged in the RMAP but for which a conformance determination has not yet been made.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">OECD Step 3&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%"> Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">The members of the internal Conflict Minerals teams collaborate as and when necessary to assess the progress of PepsiCo&#8217;s compliance program and provide updates for relevant senior management with respect to the due diligence process and filing of Form SD and this Report.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">OECD Step 4&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%"> Carry out independent third-party audit of smelter&#47;refiner&#8217;s due diligence practices</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Due to PepsiCo&#8217;s downstream position in the supply chain, it does not have a direct relationship with smelters and refiners, nor does it perform direct audits of the smelters and refiners that provide SodaStream&#8217;s supply chain with the Conflict Minerals contained in the Covered Products. PepsiCo relies upon industry efforts to influence smelters and refiners to undergo audits and become certified through the RMAP. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">OECD Step 5&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">Report on supply chain due diligence</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">This Report and the accompanying Form SD are publicly filed by PepsiCo with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available on PepsiCo&#8217;s website. Information on PepsiCo&#8217;s website is not and should not be considered part of, nor is it incorporated by reference into, this Report.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:160%">PART III. RESULTS OF OUR DUE DILIGENCE MEASURES </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Responses were received from all in-scope suppliers for calendar year 2024. Based on the information provided by those in-scope suppliers, PepsiCo believes that the facilities that were used to process the Conflict Minerals contained in the Covered Products included the smelters and refiners listed in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">Appendix A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> attached to this Report. However, due to the challenges of tracing sources of Conflict Minerals in a multi-tier supply chain and because many suppliers continue to provide us with company-level information and not product specific information (meaning that they reported the smelters and refiners that processed Conflict Minerals in all of their products, rather than solely those that processed Conflict Minerals for specific products sold to SodaStream), PepsiCo cannot be certain that these smelters and refiners were in fact in SodaStream&#8217;s supply chain. Further, some suppliers were unable to identify all the smelters and refiners in their supply chains and therefore PepsiCo also cannot be certain that other non-identified smelters or refiners were not in SodaStream&#8217;s supply chain. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">The identified smelters and refineries are located in China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and Thailand. </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo compared the list of smelters and refiners to the RMAP </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8220;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">conformant</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8221;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> smelter and refiner lists and confirmed that all of the known smelters and refiners for calendar year 2024, including those that were reported by SodaStream&#8217;s in-scope suppliers as sourcing from a Covered Country, appear on the RMAP </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8220;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">conformant</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8221;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> list. In addition, b</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">ecause the RMI generally does not indicate individual countries of origin of the Conflict Minerals processed by &#8220;conformant&#8221; or &#8220;active&#8221; smelters and refiners, PepsiCo was not able to determine the countries of origin of the Conflict Minerals processed by the listed &#8220;conformant&#8221; or &#8220;active&#8221; smelters and refiners with greater specificity. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">PART IV. FUTURE RISK MITIGATION EFFORTS</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">PepsiCo continually takes steps to improve its due diligence processes. Due diligence is an ongoing, proactive and reactive process. PepsiCo plans to continue to inform in-scope suppliers about their role in PepsiCo&#8217;s conflict minerals compliance program and continue to engage with in-scope suppliers to obtain current, accurate and complete information about its supply chain. In addition, we will continue working with these suppliers to obtain product level data specific to the Covered Products and continue to encourage suppliers to source from RMAP &#34;conformant&#34; smelters and refiners.   </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#fffdfa;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%">Forward-Looking Statements</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#fffdfa;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">Statements in this Report that are </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8220;</font><font style="background-color:#fffdfa;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">forward-looking statements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8221;</font><font style="background-color:#fffdfa;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%"> are based on currently available information, operating plans and projections about future events and trends. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties. For information on certain factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from our expectations, please see PepsiCo</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">&#8217;</font><font style="background-color:#fffdfa;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:139%">s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. PepsiCo undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">4</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">APPENDIX A</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:139%;text-decoration:underline">CURRENTLY KNOWN SMELTER AND REFINER LIST</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:10.185%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:27.426%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:21.784%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:20.843%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:14.262%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">METAL</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">SMELTER &#47; REFINER NAME</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">SMELTER &#47; REFINER COUNTRY</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">SMELTER &#47; REFINER IDENTIFICATION</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">RMAP SMELTER &#47; REFINER STATUS</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID000538</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001231</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">MALAYSIA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001105</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">PT Timah Tbk Mentok</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">INDONESIA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001482</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Thaisarco</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">THAILAND</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001898</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID002180</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tin</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID002158</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Argor-Heraeus S.A.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">SWITZERLAND</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID000077</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Dowa</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">JAPAN</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID000401</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID000707</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">LS MnM Inc.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">REPUBLIC OF KOREA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001078</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001149</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001916</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Shandong Zhaojin Gold &#38; Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CHINA</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001622</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">TAIWAN</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001761</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Gold</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">JAPAN</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CID001875</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000000;border-right:1pt solid #00000a;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 1.02pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Conformant</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div 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