date:May 12, 2014
alue of the soft drinks industry rose by 4.1 per cent in 2013 to 15.6 billion. Overall volumes were up 2 per cent, to more than 14.5 billion litres.
Aside from bottled water, still and juice drinks and energy drinks stand out as the winners from 2013 with 6.2 per cent and 5.1 per cent increases respectively. Despite being a good year overall for soft drinks sales of fruit juice and sports drinks continued to fall.
Low calorie and no added soft drinks made up 61 per cent of the market in 2013