Beverage Brands that it was leaving Torbay. Its main product is WKD Original Vodka, which is the market leading ready to drink (RTD) alcoholic beverage in Ireland and the UK. WKD sells £258 million in the UK. In 2009 it produced a cider called WKD Core. It produced Woody's from December 1995; from July 2001 it became Woody's Vodka Refresher, and sold until December 2003, then relaunched in September 2008. Beverage Brands is the sixth largest manufacturer of RTDs in the world. The company is based off junction 11a of the M5, off the B4641 in Hucclecote. It was based in Torquay
Long drink to help vendors facing a wave of foreign customers, the state allowed some liberalization and Alkoholiliike, the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly, introduced two brands of pre-mixed, bottled, ready-to-consume long drinks. These were the Gin Long Drink (gin with grapefruit) and the Brandy Long Drink (brandy with Pommac), then co-manufactured with Hartwall. The latter product was discontinued in the 1970s, after which the term long drink became primarily associated with the gin-and-grapefruit beverage in Finland. Until Finland joined the European Union in 1995, the production of long drink was strictly controlled by the government. After joining the EU the government