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Just when you think there’s no end to the diversity of junk food lining supermarket aisles, an insanely detailed infographic comes along to set us all straight. Out of the hundreds of products at our disposal, only ten major corporations manufacture the bulk of what we toss in our shopping carts.

Greek soft drink Green Cola is continuing its international expansion, after beginning with exports to Serbia and Romania.

It is now available from UK online supermarket Ocado and it will be available at regular supermarkets across Britain within the year, following agreements signed in 2016 for that purpose.

A day after PepsiCo-Ivi said it was terminating production in Greece, Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world's biggest Coke bottlers, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Dimitris Xynotroulias as marketing director for the company's Flavors department (dealing with Sprite, Fanta, Schweppes etc) for 26 Central and Eastern European countries based in Athens, and of Lilian Nektariou as the new general

Ninety years after the first production of soft drinks in Greece under the name Ivi, and 43 years after the Ivi-Panagopoulos company first started making Pepsi Cola in the country, the machinery at the PepsiCo-Ivi plants ground to a halt on Monday.

Coca-Cola Co named James Quincey chief operating officer, and said company veteran Ahmet Bozer, who had been seen as a possible successor to Muhtar Kent as CEO, would be leaving.

Quincey, 50, is a 19-year veteran of the company and most recently served as president of Coke's Europe Group. He fills a post vacated by Kent in 2008, effective immediately.

Amid the current economic crisis in Greece, new opportunities arise in the market for entrepreneurs willing to take the risk. But to go up against a global brand name like Coca Cola is quite a challenge. That is exactly what the bottling plant of EPAP in Orestiada in the north east of Greece has done.

By Luca Casiraghi

Greece has become such a dirty word in international debt markets that companies are shunning any links to the country to access funds.

Coca Cola, the beverage giant, which already has three plants in Palestine's West Bank, is now set to open a fourth one, a $20 million investment in Gaza, the heart of clashes with Israel. 

The chief financial officer of Greek refrigerator maker Frigoglass will take over as the new chief executive of the company after Torsten Tuerling resigned for personal reasons, Frigoglass said in a statement on Tuesday.

Tahera Ahmad, aged 31, was denied an unopened can of diet coke aboard her United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington just after an unopened can was handed to another passenger. Ahmad, director of interfaith engagement and associate chaplain at Northwestern University,  was told that the refusal to hand her a coke was so that she wouldn’t “use it as a weapon.”