Accessibility options

Coca-Cola 'biggest brand in UK'

Date: 12/3/2011 11:27:40

Search: Coca-Cola brands Warburton's

Coca-Cola has once again been named the biggest brand in Britain in an annual UK grocery survey.

Sales of the drink were up 8.3% last year to £1,090.4 million, according to figures compiled for The Grocer magazine's Britain's 100 Biggest Brands annual survey.

Warburton's held on to its place as the second-highest selling brand with sales of £742.4 million, up 1.5%, followed by Walkers crisps at £590.9 million, up 4.2%.

Coca-Cola's top placing follows it cutting back its UK range to just Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero over the past two years in response to the weakened economy.

The Robert Wiseman dairies Black and White range was the brand to grow the most, up 19.1% to £156.5 million in sales, taking it to 36th place.

The Grocer editor Adam Leyland said: "You mess with a winning formula at your peril. And the perilous economy has persuaded many of Britain's biggest brands to play it safe, most notably Coca-Cola, the biggest of them all.

"In the past two years, it has stripped the proposition back to just Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero. And to telling effect: Britain's Biggest Brand grew value sales by 8.3% to almost £1.1 billion."

Advertisement starts


Advertisement

Advertisement ends

2012 © Press Association

Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends

Advertisement starts


Advertisement

Advertisement ends

  • Man shot in pub in Manchester
    Man shot in pub in Manchester
    The victim, named by sources as 23-year-old Mark Short, was gunned down in the Cotton Tree pub in Market Street, Droylsden, Greater Manchester shortly before 11.50pm yesterday.Three other men, believed to be related to Mr Short, were also injured and are
  • Oldest woman defeats Everest again
    Oldest woman defeats Everest again
    Watanabe reached the summit from the Tibetan side on 19 May, at the age of 73 years and 180 days. That day, more than 200 climbers were aiming for the summit on the busier southern route in Nepal. Four died, apparently from altitude sickness and exhaustio
  • Gazza get his tongue out again
    Gazza get his tongue out again
    Gazza, capped 57 times, last appeared in an England shirt against Belgium in 1998 and now he wears the Three Lions once more as England gears up for Europe?s biggest football tournament
  • The Saturdays love Louboutin
    The Saturdays love Louboutin
    The Saturdays attended the launch of the 20th anniversary of Christian Louboutin's work in the industry
arrow
Man shot in pub in Manchester
The victim, named by sources as 23-year-old Mark Short, was gunned down in the Cotton Tree pub in Market Street, Droylsden, Greater Manchester shortly before 11.50pm yesterday.Three other men, believed to be related to Mr Short, were also injured and are

5 day forecastMy local weather

Partly Cloudy
London
min: 14º
max:26º
 
 

Daily Pictures

Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends

Page Footer


Access keys


You will need to use different key combinations in order to use access keys depending on your internet browser, find out which on our accessibility page.
  • (0) Navigate to Accessibility page.
  • (1) Navigate to Home page.
  • (2) Navigate to My email.
  • (3) Navigate to My Account.
  • (4) Navigate to Site Map page.
  • (5) Navigate to Contact us page.
  • (6) Navigate to Members channel.
  • (7) Navigate to Services channel.
  • (8) Navigate to News & Info channel.
  • (9) Navigate to Entertainment channel.
  • ([) Skip down to the Primary navigation block.
  • (]) Skip down to the more links within this section block.
  • (=) Bypass all navigation and jump to the content.
  • (x) Text only version of this page.