Innocent Drinks Innocent Drinks Innocent Drinks is a company that makes smoothies and juice sold in supermarkets, coffee shops and various other outlets. The company sells more than two million smoothies per week. Innocent is over 90% owned by The Coca-Cola Company. Innocent Drinks was founded by three Cambridge University graduates: Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, then working in consulting and advertising. The three were friends at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1998, after spending six months working on smoothie recipes and £500 on fruit, the trio sold their drinks from a stall at a music festival in London. People
Virgin Drinks Virgin Drinks Virgin Drinks was a subsidiary of the Virgin Group owned by Richard Branson. It marketed Virgin Cola and Virgin Vodka. The company is started in 1994 in-conjunction with Cott to oversee and manage the product of Virgin Cola, Virgin's first-ever drink. The company first based in Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom. Virgin Cola launched in early 1994. The drink had big enough success to the extent for Virgin Drinks to later go onto produce Virgin Vodka to add to their portfolio. The company has previously also tried to market a range of beverages in the same functional