The Coca-Cola Company Grows Roster of Billion-Dollar Brands to 20
Gold Peak, FUZE TEA and I LOHAS Each Exceed $1 Billion in Retail Sales in 2014
ATLANTA, Feb. 5, 2015 –
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Brands from the fast-growing ready-to-drink tea and water categories are the latest additions with Gold Peak tea, available in the United States, FUZE TEA, sold in nearly 40 countries, and I LOHAS mineral water, sold in Japan, joining the Company’s billion-dollar club in 2014.
“We are taking definitive steps to capture the enormous growth opportunities available to us in the global nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverage industry,” said
Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
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Gold Peak and FUZE TEA join Japan’s billion-dollar green tea brand, Ayataka, as the Company’s largest brands in the global ready-to-drink tea category, each of which has been launched since 2006. The success of these brands has propelled the Company’s tea portfolio to substantially outpace the growth of the category globally over the past two years, while gaining market share on both a volume and value basis.
Gold Peak, a premium tea brand developed by the Company, debuted in 2006 and has been growing double digits since its launch. In 2014, the Company launched an integrated marketing campaign for Gold Peak that included national television, print, outdoor and digital and social media advertising. It is one of the fastest-growing national iced tea brands and drove nearly 30% of all dollar growth in the ready-to-drink tea category last year. Gold Peak is sold in multiple varieties, including Sweet Tea, Lemonade Tea, Unsweetened Tea, Diet Tea, Raspberry Flavored Tea and Green Tea.
FUZE TEA launched in 2012 in 14 international markets simultaneously. Since its introduction, the brand has expanded availability to nearly 40 markets around the world, reaching billion-dollar status in less than three years on the market. The FUZE TEA line-up currently features more than 30 varieties, including Black Tea with Lemon, Black Tea with Peach, Black Tea with Lemongrass and Apple, Green Tea with Mango and Chamomile, and zero-calorie Light Tea. FUZE TEA will be launched in additional markets in 2015.
Since 2007, the Company has added 10 brands to its billion-dollar portfolio across a broad range of beverage categories including sparkling, juice, water and tea. Additions include
Behind the 20 billion-dollar brands is a pipeline of 16 sparkling and still brands that generate annual retail sales between $500 million and $1 billion – several of which are poised to become billion-dollar brands.
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