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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello All,

 

Glaxo/Smith/Kline reports this regarding their blackcurrant drink Ribena;

 

Production of nutritional products is in excess of 300 million Lucozade/Ribena bottles, 350 million Ribena tetra packs and 20 million Lucozade carbonated cans per year. The annual output of Horlicks is 50 million kilograms, equivalent to about 1,000 million servings.

 

That is a single blackcurrant product, produced by a single company.

 

You can imagine how popular blackcurrant is worldwide, with a wide variety of products and suppliers.

 

Later,

Tom