Pepsi-Cola Company implements the "Right Side Up" philosophy, where the customer and frontline employees are at the top of the organization.

Publisher Earl Graves and basketball superstar Earvin "Magic" Johnson are appointed Pepsi-Cola franchisees for the Washington, D.C. market. Their new company quickly becomes one of the largest African American-run companies in the U.S.

Celebrities join consumers, declaring that they "Gotta have it." The interim campaign supplants "Choice of a New Generation" as work proceeds on new Pepsi advertising for the '90s. Mountain Dew growth continues, supported by the antics of an outrageous new Dew Crew whose claim to fame is that, except for the unique great taste of Dew, they've "Been there, done that, tried that."