All Soft drinks articles – Page 143

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    Virgin moves to put new energy into US activities

    2000-03-04T00:00:00Z

    The Virgin Group is set to launch a range of "new age" drinks in the US, five years after it was set up to take on the might of Pepsi and Coca-Cola. The new range will include fruit juices and energy beverages and used as a test bed for ...

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    Beckham and Owen kick off Pepsi's football promotion

    2000-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Britvic Soft Drinks has signed top England footballers David Beckham and Michael Owen to front Pepsi's promotional team in the next round of the brand's global Ask for More strategy. This is Pepsi's first football-oriented promotion in the UK and...

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    Pepsi splits global snack arm

    2000-02-12T00:00:00Z

    PepsiCo is splitting its Frito-Lay International snacks business into two companies. One will cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa; the other Latin America, Asia Pacific and Australia. PepsiCo head Steven Reinemund said the move would unleash...

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    Coca-Cola is on call

    2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Coca-Cola is linking up with One2One this month in the first joint promotion between a soft drink and a mobile telecoms brand. The Collect and Connect promotion offers Coke drinkers a prepay mobile phone in exchange for 60 on-pack tokens and/or...

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    Britvic turns up the fizz with shouting

    2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Britvic Soft Drinks has unleashed the latest quirky promotion for Tango backed by a £2m spend. The new bid to entice young people to choose Tango over all other soft drinks is structured round the message: Tangoism ­ Shout Down Non Drinkers.' The...