World Cup of Crisps on Monday 28 March. The new Twitter poll feature automatically tallied the results, and during the semi-finals over one million votes had been cast. The 48 crisps were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing to the second group stage. Bold indicates crisps that qualified. Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Due to the tie between Walkers Smoky Bacon and Taytos Cheese & Onion, a 10-minute tiebreak poll was conducted, with Walkers defeating Taytos by 51% to 49%. Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10 Group
Asia (soft drink brand) Hong Kong since 1960s, in various kind of favour, such as Apple. It even formed a joint venture with PepsiCo after the marketization of China (As Pepsi-Asia Beverage Co. Ltd., incorporated in 1993). However, Pepsi abandoned the "Asia" brand and their products such as sarsaparilla, and the joint venture (now known as ) was re-acquired by Guangzhou Municipal People's Government (via Guangzhou Light Industrial And Trade Group (GLIG), ). The rights to use the brand was also acquired by Xiangxue Pharmaceutical via another joint venture (Xiangxue owned 63.00% stake as of 2016; GLIG was a minority shareholder): Xiangxue Asian Beverage,