INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT

The Board of Directors and Stockholder
The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.

      The audits referred to in our report on the Combined Financial Statements
of The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., including the related financial statement
schedule, and Bottling Group, LLC, as of December 26, 1998, and for each of
the fiscal years in the three-year period ended December 26, 1998, included in
the registration statement. This financial statement schedule is the
responsibility of The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.'s management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement schedule
based on our audits. In our opinion, such financial statement schedule, when
considered in relation to the basic combined financial statements taken as a
whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth
herein.

      We consent to the use of our reports included herein and to the reference
to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus.

/s/ KPMG LLP




New York, New York
June 10, 1999