The recent news that Coca-Cola is planning to streamline its brands into a cohesive whole makes for interesting reading. Consumers are used to seeing four separate Coca-Cola products on the shelves and attaching different attributes to each. If you want no sugar you go for Coca-Cola Zero, or if you want the authentic experience then you plump for the original red can. With such instant recognition for its products, some would question why Coca-Cola is bothering to do this at all.

Aesop, the UK-based brand storytelling agency, in collaboration with online polling company OnePoll has ranked the top 40 consumer healthcare brands perceived by the British as great storytellers. Unilever-owned Vaseline has been identified as the leader in the overall list of top performers, followed by another skin care expert E45 owned by Reckitt Benckiser, and P&G’s cold-relief brand Vicks.