BRITVIC RESPONDS TO ECONOMIC PROSPECTS BY INVESTING IN THE FUTURE IN IRELAND With the quiet strength and confidence of a historic company, Britvic shows the right energy for the challenge

One of Britain's leading soft drinks companies Based in Chelmsford, Essex, Britvic Soft Drinks is one of the two leading branded soft drinks businesses in the UK. The group has production facilities located across the UK and in Ireland, as well as an annual turnover of 650 million pounds - producing over 1.4 billion litres of soft drinks each year. The group boasts an extremely wide range of leading branded products such as Robinsons, J2O, Fruit Shoot, Tango and Drench in Great Britain, MiWadi, Club and Ballygowan in Ireland and Teisseire, Fruité and Pressade in France.

Extending operations to markets further afield The company has exclusive bottling agreements in the UK and Ireland for global brands such as Pepsi and 7UP, Gatorade and Heineken. It has a growing overseas presence, through Britvic Ireland, Fruite Entreprises and Britvic International, exporting to over 50 countries worldwide. All together, Britvic plc sells a combined total of 1.9bn litres of soft drinks. To continue this growth and to maintain its position as one of the UK’s leading brands, the company has a clear strategy: innovation and the development of new products.

Britvic is the leading supplier of branded, still, soft drinks - and the number two supplier of branded carbonates - on the British and Irish markets

SOLUTIONS FOR CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS

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Installed in record time of only two weeks

Immediate performance in terms of

energy savings and cost efficiency

Conversion to containers with patented

Sidel Soft Plus base - significantly

reducing blowing pressure requirements

Company with great vitality and bold proactive philosophySince the 1980s, the company has continued to expand through a series of mergers and acquisitions. The merger with three major carbonated soft drinks producers gave rise to Britannia Soft Drinks Limited (1986), now owned by Britvic. It acquired the Tango brand and entered into an exclusive bottling arrangement for Pepsi and 7Up in Britain in 1987. It later acquired the Robinson brand, Orchid Drinks, Red Devil and the Irish C&C Soft Drinks - now Britvic Ireland. Britvic was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and has since extended its commercial operations to continental European markets.

Thirty years of business collaboration with SidelThe earliest contacts between Britvic and Sidel go back as far as the 1980s, when the British group acquired several standalone machines from Simonazzi: fillers, pasteurisers, palletisers/depalletisers and craters/decraters. The latest machine acquired is a sixth Universal SBO 20/24 blower, with an output of 36,000 bph. Installed in the company’s Dublin facility in a record time of only two weeks, the machine immediately produced some remarkable performances in terms of energy savings and cost efficiency. The company also chose to convert all its bottles to containers with the new patented Sidel Soft Plus base, thus significantly reducing blowing pressure requirements. As a result of this low energy usage and the savings made by the blowers in air consumption, Britvic in Ireland has been able to reduce energy use and its subsequent costs. The new high-speed blower was part of a broader Britvic Ireland investment plan, which included a major project in the Dublin facility, where £8 million was allocated in building a best-in-class manufacturing facility.

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Installation of Universal SBO 20/24 blower

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