Talk:Bottling company

Hi,

My names Philip Mc Carthy I started up a small company called Generade .co .We sell  a new type of sports drink it's a Raspberry and Apple flavour, it's delicous. I'm just wondering whether you supply bottles and The price per normal order.

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It's a shame that this page is so tiny; I gather that bottling is a very complex and competitive business, with a lot of politics between bottlers and the beverage companies. Bottling companies also dictate to a considerable degree what the actual drink in a given region will taste like. For example, before the whole New Coke ordeal, some US regional Coca-cola bottlers had switched to high-fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar, so depending on where you lived, Coke tasted differently (there were other differences between other regions as well). You can still buy Coca-cola made with cane sugar. It is bottled in Mexico, and I assure you there is a difference in taste, partly because of the glass bottles, but mostly because of the cane sugar they still use, like the original (there may be other differences as well). In any case, these differences have little to do with Coca-cola Inc., but are created by the practices of the bottlers. No, it's not a crucial subject really, but it seems a shame that such a potentially interesting industry has almost nothing written about it on Wikipedia. I'd like to know about bottling techniques, and market considerations, politics with the soda companies. They mention class-action lawsuits by bottling companies against Coca-cola concerning their pricing structure for the Coca-cola syrups, which is all the company sells to the bottlers...the bottlers add the sweeteners and water and carbonation, and other things, so when you buy a can of Coke, most of what you're drinking is added by the bottlers, and they have some leeway in what they add (as long as they stay within certain specific guidelines). All Coca-cola sells is a thick syrup containing the essential "Coke" flavor, but it doesn't have any sweetening or anything included. The bottlers are mostly responsible for the beverage you consume, in terms of volume. Anyway, there is a pretty considerable article covering the food canning industry, so why not bottling?.45Colt 04:52, 10 August 2015 (UTC)