For all of Wall Street's confidence in Mr. Reinemund and Indra Nooyi, Pepsi's chief financial officer -- some have gone so far as to call them the "dynamic duo" -- questions still remain whether the company can increase the sagging consumer interest in sodas.
After their talks, the duo took questions from the audience, with Societe Generale staff asking them about school bullying, the legal issues concerned with gay parenthood and whether either had experienced prejudice.
In honor of them giving VICE the pleasure of premiering their latest fall/ winter 2013 collection, I asked the design duo a few questions via email about what it's like to create garments so exciting they make girls (and guys) want to twerk on a racecar in a crop top.
The Spaniard insists the future of their star duo is "a question for them" as neither he nor the club - who last week revealed the debt of parent company Kop Holdings had risen to £351million last July - want to sell them.
On Thursday the Broadway producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel said they had found a duo who, no question, know something about stage combat: The Tony Award winner Patti LuPone ("Gypsy," "Evita") will play the inmate and the Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf Roseannene") will play the warden in a Broadway production scheduled to open in fall 2012.
We asked the duo a related question about their perspective was on working towards profitability.
The hilarious duo answered the question with a slight shrug and a "well, obviously" look.
William Richard Green is a menswear designer and one half of electro-disco duo Joe and Will Ask? (The question mark is a part of the name, by the way – I'm not asking you to correct me in the comments, or Australian).
The duo begin asking Ben questions about his time as a teen mayor in Partridge, Minnesota, having researched how he bankrupted the town.
On Wednesday, however, NBC gave the two candidates a chance to at least occupy the same space, if not at the same time, when it hosted something called the "Commander-in-Chief Forum," an arena where the duo would be asked questions about national security and veterans' issues by morning show host Matt Lauer and veterans themselves.
The duo aced every trivia question Bailey threw at them and won $1,300 for Ray's Yum-O! charity.
