All Soft drinks articles – Page 134
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Bottlegreen offers premium sorbets
Bottlegreen Drinks is pouring its expertise into a premium range of sorbets. The virtually fat-free range comes in three varieties – Elderflower, Ginger & Lemongrass and English Summer – and is expected to be a hit with women looking for healthy...
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Lime Coke dashes to launch
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi to win share of the flavoured cola category looks set to hot up even further with the UK launch this month of Diet Coke with Lime.The brand is being rolled out across stores after becoming the number one...
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Dude boosts nutrition for children
Fruit juice brand Innocent is to make its first foray into the £265m children’s drinks market with the launch of a range of single-serve smoothies.Innocent Smoothies for Kids are slightly sweeter than the company’s ‘adult’ smoothies and contain...
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PepsiCo UK adds PJ Smoothies to its drinks line up
PepsiCo UK, the maker of Pepsi and Gatorade, has bought UK fruit and smoothie brand PJ Smoothies for about £20m.PJ Smoothies sells 300,000 bottles of fruit juice and smoothies a week and is expected to turn over about £15m this year. It...
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Vimto outlines strategy for Panda
Vimto is to shake up Panda drinks after buying the brand from Hall & Woodhouse for an undisclosed sum.The soft drinks division of Nichols plans to review the kids’ range, introduce new products, delist underperforming lines and amend the...
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Hall & Woodhouse sells Panda brand
Hall & Woodhouse has announced today it has sold its Panda brand and Popzone range to soft drinks company Nichols.Sales and marketing of the Panda brand and Popzone range will now be the sole responsibility of the Vimto Soft Drinks Division...
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Cosslett checks in to InterContinental role
Cadbury Schweppes’ president, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Andrew Cosslett, has been appointed by InterContinental Hotels Group as its new chief executive. He is to take up his position no later than March.Cosslett has been in his current...
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Cadbury maintains its market share
In a trading statement yesterday, Cadbury has said it is meeting its expectations for recording strong 2004 financial results.Todd Stitzer, ceo of Cadbury Schweppes, said: “We have made good progress in 2004 with momentum in key areas of the...
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PepsiCo’s Kuzio moves up to global sales role
PepsiCo UK vice president sales Tom Kuzio is leaving the UK to spearhead global sales initiatives across all categories as senior vice president sales PepsiCo International. Andy Williams, currently the regional vice president for Pepsi, will...
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Britain’s most admired company is…
Cadbury Schweppes has won the title of Britain’s Most Admired Company ahead of Unilever, who took second place, followed by BP in third.The winners were announced at Management Today’s Britain’s most Admired Company awards at the MT Summitt,...
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Tango Pipes a ‘risk to kids’
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Britvic’s ‘Tango Pipes’ TV ad poses a serious risk of harm to children. The authority suspended the ad two weeks ago (The Grocer, November 13, p8) pending a full inquiry. The commercial...
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Scottish Courage’s Lamb to direct sales at Vimto
Vimto Soft Drinks has appointed Steve Lamb to the new role of sales director, following the re-positioning of the company from a production-led to a brand-led business.Lamb has been recruited from Scottish Courage, where he held a number of...
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ASA suspends Tango television ad
The Advertising Standards Authority has acted swiftly to use its new powers over television advertising by banishing a Tango ad from screens pending a full inquiry.Only four viewers complained about Britvic’s latest ad for the fizzy...
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Templeman chairman of Shepherd Neame
Miles Templeman took over the chairmanship of Shepherd Neame from Bobby Neame at the company’s agm last week.Templeman began his career in advertising before joining Beecham Foods as a product manager for Ribena and Lucozade. He became MD of...
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‘Cadbury not to blame for obesity’ says chairman
The chairman of Cadbury-Schweppes said yesterday that the confectionery industry was not responsible for the rise in child obesity, according to a newspaper report today.Chairman John Sunderland said yesterday that Britons needed to take...
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Lucozade animates the amoeba
Lucozade Energy has been powered up for a £3m campaign featuring a new ‘Move It’ slogan.The autumn campaign is spearheaded by two TV ads hitting screens now and is being backed up with cinema and poster advertising to introduce the brand’s 18...
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Mini expert gets big Pepsi job
Pepsi UK has chosen Sandra de Jesus as marketing manager for drinks brands including Pepsi and 7UP, the latest appointment in a recent expansion of its marketing division.It said boosting the division’s size was necessary because of an...
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davies’ new role
Stephen Davies, former managing director of Britvic Soft Drinks, is to join Bottlegreen Drinks as a non-executive director.The appointment reunites him with Simon Speers, the former MD of Britvic’s international division, who joined...
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Hallowe’en’s tricky treat
GlaxoSmithKline is bringing back Hallowe’en packs across its Ribena Blackcurrant ready-to-drink range.This year, the graphics will again feature on 250ml and 288ml cartons of Original and Toothkind, and will be extended to the 330ml Sportscap...
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Straw with four holes
Exotic juice drink maker Rubicon has developed a new tongue-drenching straw to heighten the taste experience.The Sensory Straw has a flat top with four small holes instead of only one large one, which, says Rubicon, allows the juice to flow in...