All Soft drinks articles – Page 124
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Mitchell quits Innocent for private equity role
Innocent Drinks UK MD Jamie Mitchell is set to leave the company to explore new opportunities in the world of private equity.He would not give full details of his plans, but said he was talking to private equity firms about potential...
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Pomegreat unveils new luxury blend
Pomegreat is continuing its drive to add luxury to the healthy pomegranate juice category with the launch of a new juice made from a blend of two varieties of hand-cut and pressed pomegranates.The company claims this method produces juice in...
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Pepsi to get new-look packaging in 2009
Pepsi is set for an overhaul of its packaging as part of a plan by owner PepsiCo to regain the initiative for its US soft drinks business.
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Sip boosts sales by aligning brand with fashion and beauty
Beauty water brand Sip has defied the credit crunch and recorded a sales turnover of £500,000 – smashing last year’s figure of £40,000.
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Energy drinks in tune with times soar 15%
Energy and sports drinks sales are booming as people turn to them to bust stress and lift spirits in the credit crunch
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PJ's doom: market malaise or brand mismanagement?
PJ's Smoothies are set to meet their maker. Is the brand just another credit crunch victim, or is PepsiCo's approach to blame, asks Noli Dinkovski
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Outspan and Aimia combine to produce Outspan Pure Juices
South African fruit company Outspan has teamed up with UK-based Aimia Foods for its first foray into the drinks category.The two-strong pure juice range will come in apple and orange variants and contain no artificial colours, preservatives,...
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PJ Smoothies ditched as PepsiCo rationalises
PepsiCo is to ditch its PJ Smoothies brand early next year, The Grocer can exclusively reveal. The move followed a strategic review of the UK business - part of a £1.3bn three-year overhaul that's expected to see some 3,300 jobs cut worldwide...
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Acid Test: Powershots
Our panel experience the awesome power - or otherwise - of the latest competitor for Red Bull's crown
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Raw to hit retailers in bid to rejuvenate cola
Pepsi is to roll out its Pepsi Raw cola across the UK off-trade. The company launched the ‘natural cola’ into bars and restaurants last February but said it was now ready to build on the success of the variant by bringing it to a wider audience....
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Liquid Smoking: one way to beat the ban
A soft drink that claims to provide the same ‘stress relief’ as a cigarette is targeting the UK to cash in on the smoking ban. Liquid Smoking, introduced in the Netherlands earlier this year, contains an African herbal extract that provides “a...
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Advertising: The battle for autumn’s top cuppa begins
Things have hotted up in the tea and coffee sector over the past few weeks. Advertising spend across the category has tripled to more than £3.2m compared with the same period last year. Yet, before this period, spend had been tracking at about 25%...
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NewsCritical Eye... on insane wine making
I’m quite partial to the odd bottle – er, glass – of red wine and have offended many with my predilection for mixing even the good stuff with Coke. (It’s called a Kalimocho and I nearly got chucked out of a tapas bar in Granada for having the...
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Ex-Cadbury man Baldry takes top CCE GB role
Former Cadbury Schweppes UK confectionery managing director Simon Baldry has been named vice president and general manager of Coca-Cola Enterprises Great Britain. Baldry replaces Hubert Patricot, who was made president of Coca-Cola Enterprises’...
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Smoothie sales slump as shoppers feel pinch
Innocent Drinks, the market-leading smoothie maker, has become the latest victim of the credit crunch, suffering a massive drop in sales as cash-stretched consumers forgo the drinks. The company admitted its like-for-like sales had plummeted 21% to...
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Lavazza adds a splash of style to pod coffees
Lavazza is going head to head with Nestlé’s Nespresso and Kraft Foods’ Tassimo with its first coffee ‘pod’ machine. The Italian coffee specialist has developed A Modo Mio (which means My Way in Italian) in partnership with coffee machine maker,...
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Skinny Cow: from freezer to teabreak
Nestlé is taking its Skinny Cow ice-cream brand into hot beverages at the end of the month, with Skinny Cow Hot Chocolate. The drink contains 40 calories per serving and is available in Indulgent Chocolate and Chocolate Mint flavours, in 200g jars...
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No joke for Coke as Thai top man is axed
Coca-Cola must be worried following recent controversy over Thailand’s top celebrity chef. Samak Sundaravej last week was forced to give up his other job, as Thai Prime Minister, after a court ruled his cookery show breached the constitution. Sadly...
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End of the line for Boosted Smoothies
Nestlé’s Boosted Smoothies drinks have been discontinued just four months after they were launched to take on Innocent. The smoothies range had been billed as Nestlé’s “number one focus for a good few years” by Jon Walsh, MD of new business. But...