Difficult to trade one great job for another: Nooyi on speculated Tata offer

While guardedly suggesting that she has not been made an offer to head the Tata group as Ratan Tata's successor, Indra Nooyi, in an interview with The Economic Times newspaper sought to keep the speculation linking her to the top job at one of India's most respected conglomerates alive.

The chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo told ET that if "Ratan" had asked her, it would have been difficult to trade a great job for another great job.

Responding to a follow up query, whether she meant Ratan Tata had never offered her a job, she said she would never ever answer that question either way in the positive or the negative.

Nooyi, however lavished praise on the salt-to-software Tata group saying that the group was a phenomenal company and a nation-building one at that. She added that she had great respect for the Tata Group and that there was no country anywhere in world that had a corporate like the Tatas.

About her current assignment, Nooyi said she loved her job and loved being the CEO of PepsiCo and that her job as CEO, PepsiCo, was not done yet.

Nooyi has not been linked to the Tata Group alone, earlier this year there was speculation about her joining president Obama's administration as one of his key advisors - speculation that is said to have emanated from her reported friendship with the US president.