Coca-Cola has acquired the remaining stake in Fairlife from its joint venture partner Select Milk Producers, now owning 100% of the value-added dairy brand, up from its previous 42.5% minority stake.
Coca-Cola is running into trouble with people angry about accidentally buying a zero-sugar or reduced-sugar version of Coke instead of the original, because the packaging is so similar.
Coca-Cola Plus Coffee is now available in SA stores, hot off the heels of the new Coke Energy drink.
Costa Coffee has launched its first new product since Coca-Cola acquired the company for $5.1bn last August: a range of RTD coffees that will debut in the UK this month.
Coca-Cola in the UK is launching a range of new posh beverages meant to be mixed with whisky, rum, and bourbon.
Coca-Cola will launch its first energy drink under the Coca-Cola brand, putting it in direct competition with the likes of Monster and Red Bull.
The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa plan to collect and recycle 100% of packaging by 2030 in bid to tackle plastic pollution. The invention of plastic has changed the world in so many ways – for both better and worse – that it’s hard to...
Global market research company Euromonitor International has unveiled the top 100 megabrands whitepaper, revealing the world’s leading Fast-Moving Consumer Goods(FMCG) brands ranked by retail sales value in 2017.
Coca-Cola SA's recent public apology for the soda-tonic labelling blunder on its Schweppes range of mixers has been hailed by marketing analysts... BUT, the company now stands accused of a similar gaffe with other brands that could have some dangerous consequences.
Sprite, the third most popular soft drink in SA (after Coca-Cola and Fanta), has launched a new flavour: cucumber.
Coca-Cola is in talks with Canadian cannabis producer, Aurora Cannabis, about a deal to make marijuana-infused beverages, according to Bloomberg.
SABMiller and Coca-Cola plan to form one of the world's largest bottling operations with annual revenue of almost $3 billion (R33bn) in 12 markets across southern and east Africa under the name of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa. Coca-Cola will also acquire the Appletiser brand from SABMIller.
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A new book looking at the success - and cost - behind the Coca-Cola name has been published. Author Bartow Elmore, an historian at the University of Alabama, takes a fresh look at how soda companies managed to make fortunes selling cheap sugar water.
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Coca-Cola says it will no longer use a controversial stabilising ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (BVO), in its Powerade sports drink.
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Consumers have been shunning soft drinks in favour of tea, energy drinks and bottled waters for years, but defected from the category at an even faster rate in 2013, according to new figures from Beverage Digest.
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Coca-Cola is looking to expand the footprint of its part-stevia sweetened Coca-Cola Life brand beyond its initial launch in Argentina.
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Americans are so over soda. And while that may be good for the their expanding waistlines, it’s bad news for the companies that make the sugary drinks. Just take a look at this chart from IBISWorld, a global market research firm, predicting the...
Few can have failed to notice Coca-Cola's 'Share a Coke' campaign, with its roster of first names staring out hopefully from chiller cabinets. It certainly has caught the consumer's eye, but it has had a more profound impact on supply chain perceptions of digital print.
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Coca-Cola and Green Mountain Coffee have delivered a crushing blow to SodaStream — the beverage behemoths have entered a 10-year agreement to develop Coke brand products for the Keurig Cold, a yet-to-be-launched system similar to SodaSteam’s soda-making device.
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To reverse category sales slump, soft-srink marketers partner with biotech companies to find low-sugar drinks that also taste good! The next chapter in the cola-marketing wars could be influenced as much by science labs as TV commercials.
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