Britvic Ireland returns to growth

The Irish operations of UK-owned soft drinks producer, Britvic has seen a return to annual growth, with revenue up 1.3%, in constant exchange rate terms, and sales volumes ahead by 2.6%.

As part of its annual results, for the 12 months to the end of September, Britvic reported revenues of £120.4 million (€172m) for its Irish operations, with chief executive Simon Litherland saying the business in Ireland is now on an upward curve following a number of difficult years.

“In Ireland, we saw the business return to revenue growth, although the particularly poor summer weather impacted our performance in the final quarter, after three successive quarters of growth.