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Old May 3, 2005 | 3:52 am
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DoubleJ
 
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What does a UK IC stock its fridge with?

Just came across a little tidbit of information that "InterContinental Hotels Group has a controlling interest in Britvic, the second largest soft drinks manufacturer in the UK." I am personally not familiar with this soft drink manufacturer and so do not know what brands it produces, but would imagine that it does not have really much of a market share in the US, if at all (no doubt difficult to compete with the likes of Coke/Pepsi).

In order to assuage my sudden curiosity, could one of our many UK-resident FTers in this forum inform me of exactly what brands of soft drinks can be found in the room refrigerators of the UK (or Europe for that matter) ICs? Does IC stock these fridges with their "own" Britvic brands, or do they bow to the popularity of Coke and Pepsi?

Edited to add:
After doing a little research, I was able to partially answer my own questions.

"Britvic owns leading brands Robinsons and Tango and holds the UK franchise for Pepsi and 7UP."

I'm not familiar with Robinsons or Tango. Do these show up in the IC fridges? How about Coke (or do they just stock Pepsi)?

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