Chinese Cola Coming To A Store Near You

matcom

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Thu May-13-04 07:47 AM
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Chinese Cola Coming To A Store Near You

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's largest beverage maker is going where no other Chinese firm has gone before -- it has shipped the first retail batch of its own cola to the home of the carbonated soft drink, the United States.

Hangzhou Wahaha Group, whose 170,000-bottle shipment is on the way to New York and Los Angeles, will have to slug it out with giants PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co in the mammoth $64 billion market.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo own eight of the top 10 soft drink brands in the United States, while British sweets and drink maker Cadbury Schweppes Plc claims the remainder.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040513/od_nm/china_cola_dc

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Loonman

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Thu May-13-04 07:49 AM
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1. Torn

I like new beverages, but I dislike China's human right's record.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Thu May-13-04 08:27 AM
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4. Easy: drink BRAZILIAN sodas!

http://www.ambev.com.br/english/produtos/refrigerantes/antarctica

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GOPisEvil

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Thu May-13-04 07:51 AM
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2. If they just corner the Chinese-American market, they can make money.

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Don_G

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Thu May-13-04 07:56 AM
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3. Coke Dosen't Exactly Have A Sterling Reputation

http://www.mtcp.co.uk/coca-cola/background.php

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