All Soft drinks articles – Page 113
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Cornish iced tea aims to rival Lipton
A small Cornish startup is looking to take on Unilever's Lipton Iced Tea with a locally produced range of iced teas. Daymer Bay Iced Tea was co-founded in October by Anthony Jenks, the former MD of Cranley Fresh Foods, who is balancing...
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NewsSales slow as energy drinks lose their buzz
Trailblazing energy drinks Lucozade and Red Bull have been hit by a massive slowdown in growth. A year ago, The Grocer described the category as a "phenomenally vibrant area driven by changing lifestyle" with sales soaring 15% to...
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Neale promoted at GSK Nutritional Healthcare
GlaxoSmithKline's Nutritional Healthcare UK boss Graham Neale has been promoted to a new senior vice president role created specifically to accelerate global sales of Lucozade and Ribena.Neale, who has led the Nutritional Healthcare...
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Squeeze Me offers frozen smoothies
The Squeeze Me company is launching a range of frozen fruit smoothie blends to remove the hassle of making smoothies at home. Blendies, available from Waitrose now, consists of two chopped frozen fruit mixes designed to be blended with...
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Evian replaces detox with natural renewal message
Evian aims to stem declining sales with a new-look new year campaign costing £3m a record for the brand and a stronger emphasis on multibuys.The Danone Waters UK brand has used detox as its new year theme for the past nine years but is...
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Costco UK sticks with Coke despite US spat
Costco has reassured UK customers it is still selling Coca-Cola products after its US parent company delisted some of the drinks giant's products this week following a pricing row."We are still trading with Coca-Cola in the UK and it's...
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Mr Scruff adds herbal tea just for the blokes
DJ and part-time tea peddler Mr Scruff has added a blokey variant to his Make Us A Brew tea range.The new Mint & Chilli herbal brew, available now from Waitrose, Selfridges and Wholefoods, is geared at the male population.
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NewsHighland Spring snaps up Greencore Water
Highland Spring has bought Greencore’s loss-making bottled water business for £17.5m.
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PepsiCo’s healthier kids lunchbox range tested in Sainsbury’s
PepsiCo has launched Planet Lunch, a range it claims is the first cross-category brand for the kids' lunchbox market.
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AG Barr to close site with loss of 98 jobs
Irn-Bru manufacturer AG Barr has this week announced restructuring plans that will lead to at least 98 job losses in its Mansfield warehouse. The move is a result of the integration of the Rubicon business in 2008. Under the proposals,...
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NewsSmoothie maker Innocent guilty of £9m loss
Innocent has reported a loss of £9.1m in its latest accounts, filed last week at Companies House.
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Tango back on top after wave of initiatives
Tango has declared itself to be the fastest-growing fizzy fruit drink.In the past year, sales of the Britvic-owned soft drink have risen 9% to £25m [Nielsen MAT to 3 October, 2009] compared with a 17.1% drop to £23.1m in the year to 4...
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Ronaldo adds the sparkle to Soccerade’s UK arrival
A natural water-based sports drink backed by football star Cristiano Ronaldo is heading for the UK retail market to give Red Bull and Lucozade a run for their money. The Soccerade range is a flavoured sports water free from artificial...
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NewsCritical Eye... on Coke, chickens and cocks
Having moved to Margate (yes, I am as deluded about the town's prospects as the couple on Hotel Rescue), I finally managed to get the TV working in time to catch two flawed but fascinating programmes that by coincidence neatly illustrated the pros...
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A cola that kids are allowed to drink at school – unlike Coke
A small drinks company from Cheshire has got one over on global giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo with the first-ever cola to be officially endorsed by the government's school regulations.
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NewsInnocent leads return to form for smoothies
On the anniversary of the demise of PepsiCo's PJ Smoothies, the embattled smoothies category is showing the first signs of recovery spearheaded by a rejuvenated Innocent, according to retail buyers.
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Campaign Trail: Hildon’s green claims ridiculed
An online ad by Hildon Natural Mineral Water claiming bottled water is better for the environment than tap water was ridiculed by bloggers and on Twitter this week. The statement compares CO2 emissions, cleanliness and hormone content.
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Helm takes domestic pet route but Bear is blooming says Brook
Twelve months after leaving Innocent Drinks to launch a new healthy snack brand, Gareth Helm will swap his entrepreneurial endeavours for a return to a corporate role, as the new marketing director of Mars Petcare UK.But while reducing ...
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Coke boss Kent adopts recovery position
Coca Cola chief executive Muhar Kent has hailed the beginning of a global economic recovery, as growth in emerging markets helped the soft drinks giant to a 2% rise in sales volumes.
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Veg Pots inspire new premium stew range
The success of Innocent's Veg Pots is catching. Alan Rosenthal, former buyer for Spanish food supplier Brindisa, has created Stewed! a range of chilled exotic premium stews.The four-strong range of Stewed! products (rsp:...