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Specialist soft drinks company, Metro Drinks is expanding Latitude, its popular iced tea range, into 750ml retail/take-home glass bottles.

The future’s bright for new ethical fruit juice brand Good Natured, as it celebrates a highly successful UK launch of its pure fruit juice range, with listings secured in Tesco, Waitrose, Booths, Fresh and Wild, and Whole Foods Market from the end of February.

Exquisa Fruiss from Exquisa Italia is the first fruit and vegetable shot in Italy.

A&W and Sunkist Floats launched this January in the US in 11.5oz, vintage, soda shop inspired glass bottles with twist-off tops.

Nestlé bring out the beauty with new functional Day & Night drink.

Havoc Distribution recently added a sugar-free variant to its Havoc energy drink brand.

Britvic Soft Drinks has introduced apple blueberry as a new exotic flavour for its J20 range, replacing orange cranberry.

Loud Records are moving into the energy drinks market with new beverage called Loud.

NBI Juiceworks added Stamina and Turbo-G superfood variants to its original range of juices.

Japan Lotte has introduced Beni (Red), a beauty drink targeting women in their 30s.

Boost Juice Bars, the Australian juice and smoothie phenomenon, has introduced Hotties to the UK this winter.

Due to great consumer demand, Redux Beverages today announced that its world-famous energy drink, Cocaine, has been relaunched and is now available at retail locations across the country.