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Coca-Cola Japan to add virus-resistant coating to 30,000 vending machines

Business / Corporate Jun 11, 2020

Coca-Cola Japan to add virus-resistant coating to 30,000 vending machines

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. said Thursday that it will make some 30,000 of its about 700,000 vending machines resistant to virus and bacteria in response to growing hygiene awareness among the public amid the new coronavirus crisis. Beginning this week, product selection buttons and dispensing ...

Bottled water sellers ponder aluminum cans over plastic

World / Science & Health Oct 18, 2019

Bottled water sellers ponder aluminum cans over plastic

Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminum cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world's seas. Sound like a slam-dunk for the environment? Not entirely. Aluminum cans might indeed mean less ocean waste, but the production of each can pumps ...

Business / Corporate Jun 6, 2019

Coca-Cola to start using 100% recycled plastic bottles in Japan

Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. has said it will start selling a beverage product next week packaged in bottles made entirely from recycled plastics. The move comes as beverage companies around the world are increasingly moving toward more sustainable packaging in a bid to protect the environment ...

Coca-Cola Frozen Lemon: What's Coke without the fizz?

Food & Drink | KONBINI WATCH May 5, 2018

Coca-Cola Frozen Lemon: What's Coke without the fizz?

by Patrick St. Michel

It's hot out. Accordingly, everyone is seeking out cooler treats to get them through a summer that hasn't even fully settled in yet. Coca-Cola Japan is betting that people need a fix of cool in 2018, and have introduced a new product that takes ...

British startup hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls

World / Science & Health Apr 14, 2017

British startup hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls

Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London's plastic waste problem, according to the startup company based in the British capital that manufactures them. With many cities around the world struggling to dispose of vast numbers of ...

World / Science & Health Aug 18, 2016

Britain taxes soft drinks, will use the money to promote children's health

Britain on Thursday launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies that sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programs to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children. Urging food and drinks firms to act swiftly to cut ...

Suntory gains ground in battle of the machines

Business / Economy | YEN FOR LIVING Jun 13, 2015

Suntory gains ground in battle of the machines

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

Suntory Beverage is buying a bigger piece of a shrinking but lucrative pie with its purchase of the Japan Tobacco's vending machine subsidiary.

Kirin courts lightweight drinkers with 1 percent alcohol

Food & Drink | KONBINI WATCH Apr 10, 2015

Kirin courts lightweight drinkers with 1 percent alcohol

by Patrick St. Michel

Always looking to court a new demographic of drinkers, Kirin seems to have listened to market research indicating that not everyone likes going overboard with booze. The answer is Butterfly, a drink boasting just 1 percent alcohol by volume. The beverage (¥135) comes in three ...

Coca-Cola adds life to latest release

Food & Drink | KONBINI WATCH Mar 24, 2015

Coca-Cola adds life to latest release

by Patrick St. Michel

Coca-Cola Co's latest carbonated creation, Coca-Cola Life, launched in Japan earlier this month with the promise of fewer calories and less sugar via the use of stevia leaf extract, a sweetener that's apparently better for the body. All of this is just slick branding, though, ...

Declaring war on sugar-loaded 'healthy' drinks

World / Science & Health Aug 9, 2013

Declaring war on sugar-loaded 'healthy' drinks

by Alex Renton

The tin of 7UP rolls to a stop at my feet. I pick it up, scowling at the kid on a bike who'd tossed it and missed the litter bin. The can is green and shiny: "Put some play into your every day," it ...

The latest funky food flavors, coming soon to a konbini near you

Food & Drink | Japan Pulse Jul 2, 2013

The latest funky food flavors, coming soon to a konbini near you

by Mai Hasebe & Eric Ruble

The weather is heating up, and food companies are answering with treats for the summer palette. Check out the latest in convenience-store goodness.

Cool drinks and eats to beat the heat

Food & Drink | Japan Pulse Jul 11, 2011

Cool drinks and eats to beat the heat

by Felicity Hughes

Chilled curry sauce on nuddles? Doughnut jellies? Menthol Shock? Japan's got 'em all this summer.

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