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
Innocent Drinks winter months. Innocent reports that 6 million hats have been knitted and they have been able to raise over 1.9 million pounds for charities like Age UK. Innocent provided 2 years of funding for The Trussell Trust's Holiday Clubs project, that provides meals, activities, and learning opportunities to families during school holidays, with the goal of reducing hunger and isolation. In October 2016 Innocent foundation joined Oxfam's Emergency Response Network, a disaster relief fund for emergency support during a crisis. Innocent's products have been promoted as a healthy option. However, a 250 ml bottle of ‘Innocent Smoothie’ contains 171 kcal