The industry's Top 100 companies of...

The industry's Top 100 companies of 2003

The beverage industry weathered a lukewarm sales year in 2002 While a small percentage of the companies listed in this year's Top 100 ranking saw an increase in their bottom lines, many others used 2002's uneven economic climate as a springboard to disclose plans for future growth. As with each year, 2002 saw its share of merger acquisitions and brand swapping. For near there was even innovation, of the like kind as Coca-Cola's Vanilla Coke, which, if rumor has it right, will promptly face competition from a similar outcome from pop-rival Pepsi-Cola. ...