Rubicon Drinks Rubicon Drinks Rubicon Drinks Ltd (formerly Rubicon Products Ltd) is a soft drink manufacturer based in Milton Keynes, UK. The company specialises in exotic soft drinks, and produces a variety of different flavours of drink, many of which contain sugar or artificial sweeteners, and which come in both still and sparkling varieties. In the United Kingdom, their drinks are bottled and distributed by A.G. Barr plc. Founded in 1982 by two employees of the Coca-Cola company Naresh Nagrecha and Vish Vekaria, they began to create drinks in the kitchen of one of the founders. The first product, a sparkling passion
Barr Britvic Soft Drinks the two companies failed to agree upon terms. Barr Britvic Soft Drinks Barr Britvic Soft Drinks plc was a proposed company to be founded by the merger between two British soft drink manufacturers, A G Barr and Britvic. Former Britvic shareholders were to own 63 per cent of the combined entity, whilst Barr shareholders would have held 37 per cent. Measured by revenue, it would have been one of the largest soft drinks companies in Europe. The company would have had annual sales of more than £1.5 billion and would have employed around 4,300 staff. The company would have produced