All Soft drinks articles – Page 128
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Rooney fronts Coke promo
Coca-Cola plans to start the new year with a Wayne Rooney-fronted promotion giving football fans the chance to win £25,000 for their club to buy a top youth player.The promotion, which will be supported with a £600,000 marketing...
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MD Hudson leaves Vimto Soft Drinks
Managing director of Vimto Soft Drinks Glenn Hudson has left the company. Hudson had been with Vimto's parent company Nichols for four years after joining from Scottish Courage, where he was customer marketing director. One of...
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We'll stick with PLA says M&S
M&S won't stop using polylactic acid (PLA) in its packaging, despite Innocent axing it because it can't be recycled by most councils. Innocent will switch to PET bottles by January after it emerged PLA material could not be home...
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Still Fanta launched as Coke steps up NPD
Coca-Cola is investing more than £9m in non-Coke product launches as it continues to consolidate its position in categories such as juice, sports and energy drinks. A still juice range will join the existing Fanta portfolio, a 50% juice...
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Suso energy drink gets £4m marketing spend
Suso, the healthy energy drink being launched next year by former Coca-Cola and Red Bull executives, will be aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds and backed by a £4m marketing spend, its new joint chief executive has revealed. In his first...
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Functional bar gets a kick from taurine
A new flapjack-style bar that "boosts body and mind" is claiming to be the first snack product to contain the Red Bull key ingredient taurine. The Will Bar comes in two flavours: coco-a-go-go, with caffeine and taurine; and booster...
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Coke goes resealable in bid to double sales
Resealable cans, a new grip bottle and smaller formats are all currently being trialled by Coca-Cola in a bid to double the value of its Coke portfolio in Europe by 2015, The Grocer can reveal. The resealable can is currently on trial in...
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Sprite and Fanta
To celebrate Hallowe'en this year, Coca-Cola Enterprises is launching a spooky on-pack promotion across special Sprite, Fanta and Dr Pepper packs. In an exclusive partnership with Tussards, CCE is offering consumers the chance to win 2 for 1...
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Premium values key in smoothie rivalry
When Exotic Planet burst on to the scene in 1997, smoothies and premium juice drinks was a nascent market, but over the past decade it has grown significantly, not only in value but in the number of brands now present. Innocent is far...
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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...