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Britvic Orange

I just removed this from the article. "The most famous of its drinks is known as "Britvic Orange", which is made from concentrated orange juice." Is this really the most famous of its drinks? I've never even heard of this, nor have a number of other people I asked. Pretty much all the other drinks they make listed on this page seem to be more well known than this.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Thadius865 (talk • contribs)

- Britvic fruit juices, in particular orange juice, is pretty much at every pub in the UK. The Britvic 55 orange still being popular (or more commonly made from a britvic orange and lemonade rather than an actual 55 bottle). I would say that it is probably the most recognisable thing under the britvic brand (not other brands). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.79.70.4 (talk) 00:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ireland

An editor removed the section on Ireland deleting every reference and replacing it with Northern Ireland only, I have now restored stable wording of ROI and NI.Murry1975 (talk) 09:55, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Primary sources

Five of the references (twelve if you count multiple refs to the same source) are to Britvic's own website. I think this is too many, and enough to warrant my adding a {{primary sources}} tag. 82.22.227.170 (talk) 11:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The first sentence under this heading reads "The company was founded in the mid-nineteenth century in Chelmsford as the British Vitamin Products Company." How can this be, since the term "vitamin" first appeared in the early 20th century (Mirriam-Webster)?

11 November 2015

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Request to remove incorrect information - Dave Chumley CEO

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Full disclosure: I work for Britvic Soft Drinks. To avoid any potential conflict of interest, please can you consider making the following change.

   Information to be added or removed: Dave Chumley to be removed as CEO
   Explanation of issue: Simon Litherland is our current CEO and we do not recognise the name of Dave Chumley
   References supporting change: https://www.britvic.com/about-us/leadership/executive

Jon Harrington at Britvic (talk) 15:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 17-FEB-2020

Edit request implemented Spintendo 18:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request to update financial information

Full disclosure: I work for Britvic Soft Drinks. To avoid any potential conflict of interest, please can you consider making the following changes.

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. Please see the reply section below for additional information about this request.

Information to be added or removed: Financial figures to be updated.

Revenue = £1,545.0m (page 2 of our annual report) Operating profit = £130.0m (page 86 of our annual report) Net profit = £80.9m (page 2 of our annual report)

Explanation of issue: More recent figures now available.

References supporting change: https://www.britvic.com/~/media/Files/B/Britvic-V3/documents/pdf/presentation/2019/2019-annual-report.pdf

Jon Harrington at Britvic (talk) 14:16, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 21-FEB-2020

Edit request partially implemented

Y The |revenue= parameter was updated.
N "Operating profit" could not be updated because no such parameter exists within the template. The COI editor may have meant the |operating income= parameter. Please clarify.
N "Net profit" could not be updated because no such parameter exists within the template. The COI editor may have meant the |net income= parameter. Please clarify.

Regards, Spintendo 15:16, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 24-FEB-2020

Thanks Spintendo, Wikipedia page and annual report use different terminology for the same things - please can you update operating income and net income. Jon Harrington at Britvic (talk) 14:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request to update current brands section

Full disclosure: I work for Britvic Soft Drinks. To avoid any potential conflict of interest, please can you consider making the following changes.

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. Please see the reply section below for additional information about this request.

   Information to be added or removed: Please can Pennine Spring, Red Devil Energy Drink, Shandy Bass, Idris Ginger Beer, Really Wild Drinks Company and Sobe Pure Rush be moved from Current Brands to a separate section as we no longer make them. If considered relevant, please can the following brands be added: Aqua Libra, Bela Ischia (Brazil), Dafruta (Brazil), Edge (Ireland), Maguary (Brazil), Moulin De Valdonne (France), Natural Tea (Brazil) and Pure Coco (Brazil). In the Licensed from PepsiCo section, please can Arto LIFEWTR be added.

   Explanation of issue: Some drinks we no longer make are listed as current brands. Some drinks we do make are unlisted.

   References supporting change: https://www.britvic.com/~/media/Files/B/Britvic-V3/documents/pdf/presentation/2019/2019-annual-report.pdf (page 5)

Jon Harrington at Britvic (talk) 14:40, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 21-FEB-2020

Edit request partially implemented

Y The requested removal of older brands was implemented.
N The request to add newer brands was not implemented. Please provide the Wikilinks for these brand names.

Regards, Spintendo 15:04, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]