Article: Soda Sales fall

Soda Sales Fall for First Time in 20 Years
By MELANIE WARNER

Entire article is in New York Times, march 10 2006


The next generation may not be the Pepsi generation ‹ or the Coke
generation, for that matter.

For years, soda has been the quintessential American drink, considered
the perfect thirst quencher, morning pick-me-up or accompaniment to
lunch or dinner.

But that is slowly changing.

As Americans look for greater variety in their drinks and strive for
healthier diets, consumption of soda ‹ with its 250 calories and 67
grams of sugar in a 20-ounce bottle ‹ is slipping.

Data released yesterday by Beverage Digest, the industry trade
publication, shows that for the first time in 20 years, the number of
cases of soda sold in the United States declined. Case volume in 2005
was down 0.7 percent, to 10.2 billion cases.

Coke's flagship brand, Coca-Cola Classic, was down 2 percent, and
original Pepsi from PepsiCo was down 3.2 percent.

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Interesting Carol, still, 10.2 billion cases of soda is a heck of a lot
of unhealthy drinking being done.

In article .com,
Capri wrote:

Interesting Carol, still, 10.2 billion cases of soda is a heck of a lot
of unhealthy drinking being done.

I'm waiting for their extra dry straight up, stirred Extra Dry Martini
statistics :-)

Wow, and we all thought that Andrew was a nutcase. Now if we can get
him working on this whole "world peace" problem...
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