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Coca-Cola pushes on relay route Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Ian Quinn

Coca-Cola Enterprises has claimed independent retailers can increase soft drinks sales by a quarter if they tweak their displays…

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Defra wants soft drinks CO2 roadmap Subscription

12 May 2012 | Updated: 13 May 2012 | By Ian Quinn

The soft drinks industry is working with the government to develop a new roadmap for slashing the 7.8 million tonnes of greenhouse gas…

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Smart tech vending predicted to make cash obselete Subscription

05 May 2012 | By Ian Quinn

The company behind new vending machines being rolled for Coca-Cola and Mars for the Olympics…

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Orange juice hangs on despite Brazil fungicide fear Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Guy Montague-Jones

Orange juice was one of 2012’s first commodity scare stories - prices skyrocketed 20% overnight after a controversial fungicide was found…

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Lucozade Revive offers a kick in the Bolshoi Subscription

21 Apr 2012 | By Charlie Wright

Remember all that guff about an Olympic ‘legacy’?

Highland Spring digs deep for an underground meerkat Subscription

14 Apr 2012 | By Charlie Wright

Since meerkats became synonymous with car insurance, ad land has been hunting for the next zeitgeist-friendly mammal to part us from our few disposable pennies.

Lucozade's po-faced Mo is a bit Farah-fetched Subscription

28 Jan 2012 | By Charlie Wright

GSK recently admitted that Lucozade Sport ads had forgotten about the sport. It’s put that right via new spots with Olympic hopefuls like Mo Farah.

The best innovation of 2011 tells us about society Subscription

17 Dec 2011 | By Adam Leyland

As the old saying goes, “if it bleeds, it leads”. And there’s no shortage of bloodletting in The Grocer’s Top Products Survey this year.

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GM soya debate must continue Subscription

01 Oct 2011

Sir, Johanna Buitelaar Warden of AB Sustain is right in her call to stop demonising soya (Third Party, 10 September). But she is wrong to say the debate on GM versus non-GM soya is “largely academic”. It requires a practical,…

Letter of the week: Coke Zero powers ahead of Pepsi Subscription

14 May 2011

Sir, Somebody once said: Statistics can be made to prove anything even the truth. Your piece on soft drink sales missed some important context relating to the performance of the cola sector ('Max performance powers a standout year for Pepsi...

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