Britvic

The roots of the Britvic brand can be traced back to a Chelmsford chemist who started producing flavoured mineral waters in the mid-nineteenth century. The Britvic Group was established in 1986 when Bass (now IHG), Whitbread and Allied Breweries (now Pernod) merged their respective soft drinks businesses to form Britannia Soft Drinks Limited, of which Britvic is now the parent company. Britvic was originally established to act as the soft drinks supplier to the pub estates of these three shareholders. However, through the development of supply arrangements with customers other than the shareholders, Britvic ceased to be reliant on its shareholders’ supply contracts and was able to establish itself as a market-leading soft drinks supplier in its own right.

Britvic in brief
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Key Events

Key events and milestones in the development of Britvic’s brands include:

1987

Acquisition of the Tango brand from Beechams.
Entry into an exclusive 20-year bottling arrangement for Pepsi and 7UP in Great Britain.
Total soft drinks volume produced by the Group approximately 740 million litres.

1995

Acquisition of the Robinsons brand from Reckitt & Colman.
Total soft drinks volume produced by the Group first exceeds 1 billion litres.

1998

Launch of J₂O in the licensed on-trade.

2000

Acquisition of Orchid Drinks (bringing the Ame, Purdey's and Aqua Libra brands into the portfolio).
Launch of Fruit Shoot.

2002

Acquisition of the Red Devil brand.

2004

PepsiCo arrangements renewed for a further 15 years (with a five year extension on Admission).
Acquisition of water products and source.

2005

Total soft drinks volume supplied by the Group over 1.4 billion litres.
Britvic PLC floatation.

2006

2006 Total soft drinks volume supplied by the Group over 1.3 billion litres.

2007

2007 Britvic acquires the soft drinks business of C&C Group plc in Ireland.