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Last year, Julie Hamp made PRWeek's Editors' Choice as a person to watch when she replaced the company's seven-year veteran Tod MacKenzie in the top communicator post. With the company undergoing a major restructuring at the time and facing steep competition not only from Coca-Cola, but a number of new players all trying to adapt to Americans' changing beverage preferences, Hamp had a chance to sink or swim – and swim she did. Already this year, ...