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Smiles at Innocent but will Coca-Cola be its new mate?
Bruised by recession and intense competition, Innocent is in talks with investors to fuel overseas expansion. How's it hanging? By Adam Leyland and James Ball
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Energy drinks grab third place from juice drinks
Soaring sales of Red Bull and Relentless have catapulted energy drinks into third place in the soft drinks category, leapfrogging juice drinks, according to the annual Britvic Soft Drinks Report.The findings, based on independent data from...
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Daniels Group takes on Tropicana with new premium juices
Daniels Group is going head to head with Tropicana in the premium juice market with the twin launches of New Covent Garden Juice and JU - a new functional brand.The five-strong NCG range marks the brand's first foray into the juice sector...
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NewsWaitrose in for Paddy & Scott's debut
Gourmet coffee brand Paddy & Scott’s has secured its first major retail listing with Waitrose. The brand’s three-strong range, rsp £3.95, aims to help consumers differentiate between blends by highlighting whether they are best drunk in the...
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NewsRobinsons Fruit Spring replaced with extension of Drench brand
Britvic is axing its Robinsons Fruit Spring juice drinks and replacing them with Juicy Drench, an extension of its Drench bottled water brand. Consumers did not associate the three-strong Fruit Spring range, which is being delisted from...
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NewsAcid Test: Tropicana Gold Label
The panel set loose the juice with Tropicana's new black-carton effort
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NewsNescafé gets stronger with rising bean count
Nestlé is embarking on a £24m relaunch of its entire Nescafé coffee range, The Grocer can reveal. The company will kick off its campaign by reformulating its 71-year old Nescafé Original brand in a bid to rejuvenate flagging sales. It had...
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NewsInnocent and Daniels Group eye Sunjuice own-label operation
Innocent Drinks and New Covent Garden owner Daniels Group have been tipped to buy parts of smoothie and own-label juice supplier Sunjuice, a subsidiary of Serious Food Ltd, which went into administration last week. Innocent uses the Cardiff...
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NewsAnother relaunch for iconic brand Sunny D
The Sunny Delight Beverage Company has overhauled its iconic Sunny D drinks brand for the second time in less than two years in an attempt to re-engage with mums and their kids.
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TV dragon hopes Sip is next Reggae Reggae
Dragons' Den tycoon Peter Jones hopes to replicate the success of Reggae Reggae Sauce with beauty water brand Sip
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Bottlegreen offers more pressé for the same price
Adult soft drinks specialist Bottlegreen is attempting to boost its appeal with cash-strapped shoppers by increasing bottle sizes - but not prices.The brand's single-serve, Sparkling Pressé range was previously sold in 250ml bottles but will...
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Cadbury makes its drinking chocolate a whole lot chunkier
Cadbury has swapped cocoa powder for blocks of Dairy Milk for the launch of an innovative new drinking chocolate. Hot Choc Chunks, launched this month, is the first mainstream drinking chocolate to use solid blocks of chocolate that are...
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Ad of the Week: Monkey's christmas message
You can't stop progress. And PG Tips has come a long way over the years, its tea-sipping chimps of the 1950s (and 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s) clambering out of adland's primordial soup and evolving into the TV dream team of hernia-voiced funnyman Johnny...
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Has the innocent halo fallen off?
Innocent Drinks was the biggest food and drink casualty in the Top Products Survey 2008, with sales falling from £134m to £107m, a 20.2% drop. The market-leading smoothie brand, which has seen meteoric growth since its launch in 1998, has...
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Harry Tuffins vows to stick with water despite flat demand
Independent retailer Harry Tuffins has insisted it will push ahead with its Montgomeryshire Natural Water Company business despite a "difficult year".Accounts filed at Companies House this week for the year to 31 January revealed poor...
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Nichols buys stake in Dayla
Vimto manufacturer Nichols has acquired a 50% stake in Dayla Liquid Packing for £2.78m to boost its dispensed cold drinks operations.
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Lipton launches fruit and herbal tea bags
Unilever is pinning its hopes on a new range of fruit and herbal teas boosting sales of its globally successful Lipton brand in the UK.The company predicted that the nine-strong Lipton Fruit & Herbal Infusions range, which is launched next...