When I get a bottle of coke or can of coke from a local take away they are usally bottled over seas such as Canada or Georgia or someone where else miles away is this legal and whats Coca Colas stance on this in England as ive noticed the UK products now say GB on them. Do other countries Coca Colas have diffrent blends?
2007-02-14 12:04:29 · 13 answers · asked by Robert G 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
These are known as parallel import. Goods manufactured under the same name usually by licencees. These are then imported into a country and compete against the goods manufactured there.
The take aways buy them as they're cheaper. The original manufacturers don't like it but can't complain due to competition laws.
2007-02-14 12:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you actually read the snopes article that two people above shamelessly copied and pasted from, you see Fanta wasn't started because Coca-Cola was afraid of Nazi association or anything like that. Fanta was started by a Coca-Cola man in Germany who could no longer make Coke because of war-related supply issues, and therefore invented Fanta as a "this is the best we can do with what we have" Frankenstein drink solution. Coca-Cola itself didn't even know what was going on until after the war. The Third Reich had nothing to do with the invention of the drink, and the inventor never joined the Nazi party.
2016-05-23 23:57:51 · answer #2 · answered by Delilah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here in australia the coke bottle labels say
bottled under authority of the coca cola company owner of the coca cola trademarks - its bottled in australia
guess that the takeaways in the uk have somehow shipped in coca cola from other countries (cheap supplies maybe)
never noticed anything but coca cola uk on bottles before in the uk
2007-02-14 12:13:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To increase their profir margins.
As Coca-Cola is such a well known ubiquitous product, who gives a 4x if its bottled in Eastern Europe so long as the drink is the same.
2007-02-14 23:28:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is that take aways in the UK sell foreign coke because it is cheaper for them to buy. It is usually, end runs or over stock that is sold cheap!! Same stuff so don;t worry!!! Just spelt different
2007-02-14 12:09:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-28 10:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They buy cheap. Look at the sell by date. With the open market you can buy a job lot in bulk if you can move it fast
2007-02-14 15:03:42 · answer #7 · answered by thecharleslloyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its still Coke, jus with foreign writing so what does it matter?
2007-02-14 12:09:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep...depends on who bottles....Mexico puts real sugar in the Coke...US...not so much...corn syrup likely
2007-02-14 12:07:27 · answer #9 · answered by (_)iiiiD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where are you from? Georgia is not overseas from the U.S.!!! Louisianna is not a sea, its a swamp.
2007-02-14 12:20:07 · answer #10 · answered by Cheryl 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋