Sugar tax

[alangla]

hotchy said:

Sales of coca cola are through the roof, irn bru has completely collapsed because they took the sugar out. Went from 2+ pallets a month of irn bru 2ltr to 4 cases and coca cola has increased to 4+ pallets from 1. Probably the same nationwide in scotland anyway.

Has been the same on everything. Monster and redbull kept the full sugar and suddenly we sell loads where as before it was rockstar who cut sugar and nobody likes anymore.

They also ruined lucozade.

I have to say I was totally unsurprised when Irn Bru 1901 with full sugar & no artificial sweetener appeared just before Christmas. The only surprise is that it's taken so long to launch. Wonder what the margin is at a selling price of £2 for a 750ml glass bottle.

I noticed at the weekend a bottle of the traditional red Lucozade had a "contains glucose" advertising tag on it - maybe Glucose Aid will be going back to its original recipe before too long as well?

[R Mutt]

alangla said:

hotchy said:

Sales of coca cola are through the roof, irn bru has completely collapsed because they took the sugar out. Went from 2+ pallets a month of irn bru 2ltr to 4 cases and coca cola has increased to 4+ pallets from 1. Probably the same nationwide in scotland anyway.

Has been the same on everything. Monster and redbull kept the full sugar and suddenly we sell loads where as before it was rockstar who cut sugar and nobody likes anymore.

They also ruined lucozade.

I have to say I was totally unsurprised when Irn Bru 1901 with full sugar & no artificial sweetener appeared just before Christmas. The only surprise is that it's taken so long to launch. Wonder what the margin is at a selling price of £2 for a 750ml glass bottle.

I noticed at the weekend a bottle of the traditional red Lucozade had a "contains glucose" advertising tag on it - maybe Glucose Aid will be going back to its original recipe before too long as well?

What's funny is that Schweppes have always had sweeteners in the fat/ regular versions of their drinks and have had to launch versions with sugar AFTER the tax was implemented but unlike IRN BRU, 'Schweppes 1783' is intended as a 'premium' product. Quite an insult then that in the 236 years prior they've been serving us an inferior product.

[bolidemichael]

R Mutt said:

alangla said:

hotchy said:

Sales of coca cola are through the roof, irn bru has completely collapsed because they took the sugar out. Went from 2+ pallets a month of irn bru 2ltr to 4 cases and coca cola has increased to 4+ pallets from 1. Probably the same nationwide in scotland anyway.

Has been the same on everything. Monster and redbull kept the full sugar and suddenly we sell loads where as before it was rockstar who cut sugar and nobody likes anymore.

They also ruined lucozade.

I have to say I was totally unsurprised when Irn Bru 1901 with full sugar & no artificial sweetener appeared just before Christmas. The only surprise is that it's taken so long to launch. Wonder what the margin is at a selling price of £2 for a 750ml glass bottle.

I noticed at the weekend a bottle of the traditional red Lucozade had a "contains glucose" advertising tag on it - maybe Glucose Aid will be going back to its original recipe before too long as well?

What's funny is that Schweppes have always had sweeteners in the fat/ regular versions of their drinks and have had to launch versions with sugar AFTER the tax was implemented but unlike IRN BRU, 'Schweppes 1783' is intended as a 'premium' product. Quite an insult then that in the 236 years prior they've been serving us an inferior product.

Well, they got complacent and Fever Tree shook up the market. 1783 is more of a 'crafted' product - as are the four Coca Cola mixers, a couple of which are superb - Woody comes to mind.

[Not-The-Messiah]

hotchy said:

Sales of coca cola are through the roof, irn bru has completely collapsed because they took the sugar out. Went from 2+ pallets a month of irn bru 2ltr to 4 cases and coca cola has increased to 4+ pallets from 1. Probably the same nationwide in scotland anyway.

Has been the same on everything. Monster and redbull kept the full sugar and suddenly we sell loads where as before it was rockstar who cut sugar and nobody likes anymore.

They also ruined lucozade.

Edited by hotchy on Wednesday 15th January 14:07

I used to love irn bru would always buy a few 2L bottles a week, not bought a bottle since I tried the new recipe awful stuff.
The thing is there just wasn't any need for if they already had a sugar free one.