Lower sales of Ballygowan bottled water, and a continued fall in the sale of third-party alcohol brands to pubs drove a 1.6% drop in annual revenues at the Irish division of British drinks group Britvic.

Further office development is to take place on the last remaining commercial site in Eastgate in Cork’s Little Island.

While plastic, which is polluting the seas, may take 1,000 years to decompose, the production of aluminium creates far more carbon dioxide, so cans are problematic, too, says Eric Onstad

I FINISHED writing my fifth novel this week. It’s a first draft, I hasten to add, and an extremely messy one at that, so I’m not getting overly excited. I know too much about the amount of work that lies ahead of me for that.

Evidence against a thief for burgling an apartment in Cork included a fingerprint at the window, DNA on a Pepsi can, DNA on a cigarette, and a phone credit receipt linked to him.

Farmers in the state of Gujarat, India, are seeking government intervention after Pepsi Co, whose products include Pepsi, Lays, Doritos, Tropicana, 7up, sued for farmers for allegedly infringing its rights by growing a potato variety registered by the company for use in its Lays crisps.

Each year, there is one particular aspect of the festive season which gathers particular momentum. Normally, they are of the consumable variety and quickly become oversaturated. Beauty advent calendars anyone?

Revenues at the Cork arm of soft-drink giant PepsiCo decreased by 16% with lower volumes of Pepsi cola concentrate shipped out of the region last year.

Two decades after they brought us ‘Girl Power’ and momentarily took over the world, a new exhibition pays tribute to the Spice Girls. From tracksuits to platforms, Suzanne Harrington takes a look.

Supermarket foods with reduced salt are expected to surge in demand as the condiment is set to be the next target for health professionals, according to a new report.

In the interests of brevity, I’ll paraphrase: women would love to eat Doritos like men but are afraid of being judged as geezer-birds. Cue Lady Doritos

Almost 300 jobs have been announced in Dublin and Cork after two multinationals opened research and development facilities.

Over the past decade, a little-known herb 200 times sweeter than sugar has become a €3.5bn global industry, showing up in everything from Coca-Cola drinks to Heinz ketchup.

Shares in French food group Danone rose after the New York Post newspaper said in a report over the weekend that Danone could be a takeover target.

Suzanne Harrington pipes in on the debate surrounding that Pepsi ad.

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Warehouse/industrial units ranging from €300,000 to €1.5m on Cork City’s outskirts have come to market this month, at Little Island and at the Kinsale Road.

Google has taken over from Apple as the world's most valuable brand in an annual ranking amid signs the technology giant has "reached saturation point".

Reinvigorating a brand is always an option, but often it’s best to leave well enough alone, writes Ed Power

Far from being a manufactured product, Girl Power defined Britpop better than a battling Blur and Oasis, says Caomhan Keane

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has welcomed the announcement of plans to introduce a new £520m (€660m) levy on sugary drinks in Britain within two years.

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%.

Retired football star David Beckham, an international celebrity both on and off the field, was named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”.

These facts about Coca-Cola may just have you think twice before drinking a lot of the fizzy drink in future.

Toyota moved into damage-control mode after its new communications chief, Julie Hamp, an American and its first senior female executive, was arrested on suspicion of illegally bringing pain killers into Japan, just two months after her appointment.

In keeping with the Good Friday tradition, high priests are baying for blood — except this time the cause is life and not death by crucifixion.

Most companies proclaim to be driven by their customers’ needs but few seem as genuine in that regard as teamwork.com - a company which by happy coincidence has seemingly landed upon a name that encapsulates not just their service but the ethos of the company too.

The publication yesterday of the utterly unambiguous November 2010 letter from the then ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet to then Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, shows how power is used and how real and pressing vulnerability — a country facing economic collapse and the chaos that would ensue could only be described in those terms — turns national politicians into supplicants rather than negotiators.

Irish companies including Glanbia have used undisclosed deals with the government in Luxembourg to slash their tax bills in their own country, according to documents released by an international group of newspapers including the Irish Times.

Apple and other large multinational firms are unlikely to scale back their Irish operations due to the abolition of the so-called "Double-Irish" tax loophole but it will prove challenging to encourage similar companies to set up here in future.

A soaring consumer focus on health and wellbeing has heightened global retailer interest in Origin Green, the single brand which Bord Bia is using to market the Irish food industry overseas.

On the day she received word that Pepsi was chosen to name her its president, Indra Nooyi left work early (about 10pm) to go home and share the thrilling news with her family.

Almost one third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

Paddy Power’s insensitivity about Oscar Pistorius is not the first example of ill-advised advertising, says Dave Kenny

Singers MIA and Janelle Monae have shared the stage during separate concerts on opposite coasts of America through the magic of holograms.

On International Women’s Day, Marianne Perez de Fransius explores why increased female participation in the workplace is of benefit to all facets of society.

A LITTLE of what you fancy does you good.