Britvic has created a brand-new multipack offering for Robinsons Fruit Shoot, with The Marketing Store creating a partnership with TOYS ‘R’ US for its UK launch this March.
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Starbucks is determined to compete with energy drinks market leaders such as Red Bull and burn. The company takes on the energy beverage giants with the global release of Starbucks Refreshers, all-natural revitalizing sparkling product based on real fruit juice and green coffee extract. The delicious, low calorie and energetic offering has been tested in select markets in the U.S. starting 2010 in a glass and later in a can, and now Starbucks is ready to introduce it on the national level, according to the press release.
Coca-Cola is not only sharing happiness, which became the key theme of its advertising efforts, but also provides younger generation with an access to the Internet. The brand teamed up with Ogilvy to develop a project dubbed Happiness Refill to offer the youth of Rio de Janeiro an extra refill for online surfing on their mobile phone (since over 80% of the target audience use a prepaid phone and can’t afford a big data plan, this solution is what the young consumers are sure to appreciate). Starting March 22, to get the mobile device ‘refilled’ with 20 megabytes from Coke, one just have to find an open-air concept store on Copacabana beach with the special red Coca-Cola dispenser, and then hold the mobile phone up to it—that’s all.
PepsiCo is getting ready to kick off its new low-cal Pepsi NEXT product that is expected to become “a game-changer in the cola category” as the company says. The NEXT cola was unveiled in the end of last month and contains 60% less sugar than regular Pepsi-Cola. With the new product, Pepsi responses to the public demand for a diet cola with a full-flavor taste. ‘Drink it to Believe it’ is a slogan of the new campaign.