INNOVATION IN DRINKS MANUFACTURING COULD BECOME MORE PUBLIC SAYS EXPERT

BY ALAN OSBORN THE PRESENT difficult economic conditions in Europe, north America and Japan are not hugely encouraging for promoting innovation or for the spending of large sums of money on research by drinks manufacturers. It may be a little different for leading brands such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other big names though even these are changing their approach. "Certainly a lot of suppliers to the retailers are very risk averse at the minute, they're being very cautious," said John Sorsby, head of the Food Innovation Centre at ...


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