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
Alcoholic drinks in Sweden called "folköl" ("people's beer"), is sold in regular stores, but with the minimum purchase age of 18. Class III, "starköl" ("strong beer", over 3.5%) is sold only in Systembolaget stores. Drinks are taxed by content of alcohol, more heavily than in most other countries. The tax on vodka (40%) is 200.56 SEK/litre, on Wine (14%) 22.08 SEK/litre and on beer (4.5%) 6.615 SEK/litre (2007). Beer with 2.8% alcohol or less is exempt from tax, except VAT. The VAT is 12% (food tax) for drinks sold in shops having up to 3.5% alcohol, and 25% above that, and at restaurants. Systembolaget