All Soft drinks articles – Page 123
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Innocent recycled bottle to hit stores
Innocent Drinks has beaten Ribena to the shelves by a week to become the first major UK soft drink producer to use 100%-recycled plastic bottles.Innocent's 100%-recycled bottles began rolling out to stores this week on four key lines....
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Duchy signs Baker as CEO
Prince Charles' food company Duchy Originals has appointed Andrew Baker to the position of group CEO.He replaces Belinda Gooding, who left earlier this month. Baker previously worked at Cadbury Schweppes as business strategy director for...
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Carling steps down as Red Bull director
Guy Carling has quit as Red Bull UK's brand director exactly 10 years to the day after joining the energy drink manufacturer. He was responsible for developing Red Bull's marketing campaign and led last month's structural review with Red...
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Companies to test carbon footprint standard
Six food and drink companies have agreed to test a draft product carbon footprinting standard currently being developed by the Carbon Trust, Defra and BSI British Standards. Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, The Co-op Group, Kimberly-Clark,...
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Del Monte brings in Jenks to grow sales
Del Monte plans to grow its £140m UK food sales by 10% in the next 12 months following a restructuring of its UK foods division and the transfer of all sales, marketing, logistics, administration and finance roles to food broker...
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Diet Coke Plus plugs new health message
Coca-Cola is investing £2m in a campaign to support its new Diet Coke Plus variants in the UK.Diet Coke Plus Vitamins and Diet Coke Plus Antioxidants, which are aimed primarily at women, are already available in the US and Belgium and...
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Lucozade Alert set to stimulate minds
Lucozade has launched a product promising mental stimulation, which will sit alongside its existing range of energy-boosting drinks.Lucozade Alert, which is being launched initially in the Irish Republic and Northern Irish markets,...
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In Brief: Gill joins Booths; Greencore controller; Co-op accounts; Appletiser duo; Seafood sales chief
Gill joins Booths Booths has appointed John Gill as a non-food buyer responsible for laundry, homecare, toiletries, medicines, petfood and paper. Gill joins from Spar wholesaler James Hall where he worked in the buying department for eight years...
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Red Bull says job cuts not part of review
Red Bull UK is carrying out its first structural review in 10 years but denies it has made redundancies. Customer marketing and category manager Caroline Jacomb said Red Bull was "frustrated" by media speculation about redundancies. "No redundancies...
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Expanding Innocent ramps up staff levels
Innocent Drinks is to increase its staff numbers by a third in a bid to manage continued rapid growth at home and ambitious expansion plans abroad. The smoothie supplier wants to grow its 210-strong workforce by 70, with about half of...
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Healthier Britain requires education and lower VAT
Innocent Drinks' campaign for a reduction on VAT is the best chance for companies and the government to act together for public interest Recently I announced my support for a campaign being led by Innocent Drinks to reduce VAT on juices...
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Has Innocent lost its halo effect with This Water?
n less than 10 years, Innocent has built a £110m-sales brand, with a superb reputation as an innovator and trendsetter. Other companies have envied and emulated the quirky pack notes and website, funky outdoor events and Bananaphone hotline that...
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Coke's Wakefield plant hit by strike
The world's biggest soft drinks bottling factory is set to be hit by two 48-hour strikes.Nearly 400 workers at Coca-Cola Enterprise's Wakefield plant, which produces 6,000 cans and 1,650 bottles of soft drinks every minute, will strike...
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Cadbury fined £1m for salmonella outbreak
Cadbury Schweppes was yesterday fined £1m and ordered to pay £152,000 in costs for hygiene offences linked to a salmonella outbreak last year.More than a million chocolate bars were recalled last June after an outbreak of salmonella was...
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Letter of the week - High prices are deterring shoppers
While VAT questions can often be complicated and awkward, the case for reducing VAT on fruit juice is a practical and direct one ('Innocent mounts new push for lower VAT on fruit juices', The Grocer, 7 July,p6). At present, a glass of fruit juice...
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Innocent mounts new push for lower VAT on fruit juices
Innocent Drinks has renewed calls for VAT on fruit juices to be slashed - in the hope Gordon Brown will be more sympathetic to the cause now he is prime minister.Innocent has been lobbying since last August for a change in the law that...
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FIVE-STAR PERFORMERS
Coke Zero Launched: June 2006 Sales: £46.2m Star rating: ? ? ? ? ?Undoubtedly the most impressive newcomer of the past 12 months, Coke Zero has outsold any other of this year's Star Products by three to one and is also one of the...
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Tangerine set to buy Cadbury's Butterkist
Tangerine Confectionery, the UK's largest independent confectionery manufacturer, is poised to swoop on Monkhill Confectionery business, a Cadbury-Schweppes subsidiary which makes Butterkist popcorn and own-label products for supermarkets....
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To be novel, a brand has to keep its value
Sir; This summer, Coca-Cola is hoping consumers will turn Orange. As part of its 'Coke Side of Summer' campaign, Coca-Cola Orange will be hitting the shelves from July 2007. Coca-Cola's own research suggests 70% of consumers would definitely or...