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Three soft drinks brands featured in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2015 – Coca-Cola at number eight, Pepsi at 79 and Red Bull at 94.

The leading brand overall was Apple on $250bn and the 100th brand is worth $11bn.

Curiously, the soft drinks top 15 included hot drinks and separated out diet versions. In full, they are:

1. Coca-Cola – $70bn

2. Diet Coke (including Light, Zero) – $13.8bn

3. Red Bull – $11.4bn

4. Pepsi – $10.8bn

5. Nescafé – $6.3bn

6. Tropicana – $6bn

7. Fanta – $6bn

8. Sprite – $5.3bn

9. Nespresso – $5.2bn

10. Gatorade – $4.7bn

11. Lipton – $3.7bn

12. Minute Maid – $2.8bn

13. Dr Pepper – $2.7bn

14. Mountain Dew – $2.5bn

15. Diet Pepsi – $2.3bn

Five are owned by Coca-Cola, Five by PepsiCo and two by Nestlé – both hot.

It’s extraordinary how far Coca-Cola outperforms all other brands in this analysis. And how far Red Bull has come.

I wonder when Big Cola, Capri-Sun, Keurig, Lipton Ice Tea, Monster and Nestlé Pure Life will enter the rankings. Which others do think should already be there or will be soon?