In the U.S., the soft-drink and chip markets, while enormous, are no longer growing.
Discussions are near completion for a 30% stake in a new soft-drink bottling plant.
Until recently a passive player in Coca-Cola's marketing efforts, 7-Eleven is changing the soft-drink game.
Daiei supermarkets are installing video cameras above soft-drink shelves to catch anyone tampering with products.
The province required one foreign soft-drink bottler to collect official signatures on 200 different forms before it could open.
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The payoff: Polar's share of the soft-drink market has climbed to 33%, and Mendoza is determined to increase it further.
The new windpipe was designed and fabricated from the same type of plastic that is used to make soft-drink and water bottles.
Compare these with newspaper companies, under siege for their dim prospects, whose shares fetch 18 times earnings and soft-drink companies, at 20.
Soft-drink consumption is relatively tiny in developing nations: The Chinese average 23 servings a year, compared with Germans' 344 and Americans' 872.
Mr. Mudd details the dangerous 2006 plot to blow up several airliners at once with bombs fashioned from plastic soft-drink bottles filled with liquid explosives.
Polar, which at the time owned a local soft-drink brand as well as extensive beer operations, jumped at the chance to land the Pepsi business.
So successful was the brand that Snapple inspired dozens of imitators and prompted major soft-drink companies to introduce their own fruit and tea beverages to compete.
Automakers seem to have become smitten with the practice of slicing and dicing new-car segments into smaller niches in recent years like so many soft-drink varieties.
In another, one of Cobb's sons stands in front of a Coca-Cola sign a fitting juxtaposition because Cobb made millions as an early investor in the soft-drink company.
"The real competition is less between Coke and Pepsi than between Wal-Mart and Kroger, " says Thomas Pirko, president of Bevmark, a consulting firm to the big soft-drink companies.
Global soft-drink seller PepsiCo said that top-line sales were hurt in the second quarter by consumers in developed markets who are cutting out carbonated beverages from their daily budgets.
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The soft-drink bottler had challenged GNR to release the album before 2009 rolled around, and now intends to make good on its offer to give fans free soda if it did.
Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
Consider that soft-drink makers today enjoy some of the highest operating profit margins in the food industry, even though some have reduced their calorie footprint (the average calories sold per capita) by a quarter over the last decade.
Here is the ultimate justification for the Bloomberg soft-drink ban, not to mention his smoking ban, his transfat ban, and his unsuccessful efforts to enact a soda tax and prohibit buying high-calorie drinks with food stamps: The taxpayer is picking up the bill.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
Among them three beverage-companies, soft drink-maker Coca-Cola and brewers Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, and Heineken.
Brahma, though stronger, lacks a premium-brand soft drink, which its former arch-enemy has in the form of Guarana Antarctica, a type of fruit soda.
The British Crown Prosecution Service said it was a plot -- involving liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles -- that could have been pulled off.
If you don't want to abstain entirely, there are ways that can help you cut down, including opting for smaller glass sizes, diluting alcohol with soda water or a low-calorie soft drink, alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and keeping a few nights each week booze-free.
The new soft drink-like packaging helped fast-track bottled water's growth past milk and beer.
During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury an experiment which they said showed that a soft drink-size bottle filled with the kind of liquid explosives the men allegedly planned to use could have brought down a plane in mid-flight.
First news hit the markets that for the first time ever, Diet Coke had overtaken Pepsi as the second-most popular soft drink in the country, behind Coca-Cola.
He explained that later in the year when it is in season, he will return to pick the yellow gorse flowers (which have a distinct coconut taste) to use in meat marinades and Thai curries, as well as burdock root, which is popular in Japanese cooking and can be used for vegetable soups or mixed with dandelion to make a root beer-like soft drink.
The cardboard box from which the Jayalalitha-lookalike was doling out soft drink cans, dripped stickily onto my notebooks and elicited a quick apology -- repeated in the same vein when informing me that no, there were no bottles of potable water in lieu of the fizzy stuff.
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