Coca-Cola Raspberry Coca-Cola Raspberry Coca-Cola Raspberry is a Coca-Cola drink with a raspberry flavor that was sold in New Zealand on a trial basis. A Diet Coke Raspberry version was also sold. Both were first introduced on June 1, 2005 and had been discontinued by the end of the year. In the summer of 2017, the drink was brought back in New Zealand for a limited release. It was reintroduced as a summer flavour in Australia. In August of 2018 it also came as zero flavor in Finland and Norway. Raspberry was the third flavor added to original Coke in New Zealand.
The Coca-Cola Company of its two main ingredients (coca leaves and kola nuts) and because it sounded like an alliteration. John Pemberton had taken a break and left Robinson to make, promote, as well as sell Coca-Cola on his own. He promoted the drink the best he could with the limited budget that he had and succeeded. In 1894, American businessman Asa Candler purchased the company from Pemberton's heirs with the intent to advertise and sell it as a beverage to regular consumers. Candler was one of the first businessmen to use merchandising in his advertising strategy. By 1895, Coca-Cola was being sold