Isn't this how we got fanta
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I hope it does not work out for them. Also in Germany we have many alternatives which are cheaper and come close to the taste of CocaCola.
I've been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don't be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.
Even beyond just the boycotting brands for political reasons, so many of the mainstream brands charge way too much for a product that almost anybody else can make the equivalent of.
Gilette once justified a price rise because of higher marketing costs... well they destroyed all their investment there with one statement.
Some products in tech you can replace there is just iOS and Android both American owned company’s
Linux smartphones are coming, although very slowly
There is also Jolla with Sailfish OS, but the hardware is not really attractive
In many cases, although not with coca cola, the bottom shelf products are made in the same place where the top brands are made. Some times they even have the same product but different packaging
I even like to say the local breweries often are way better! Leikheimer, Alaska, Riegele Spezi, and more. Waayy better!
I tried out spezi when I travelled to Germany, it was weirdly nice.
One aspect I haven't seen mentioned yet is the rise of local premium cola brands in recent years. Brands like Fritz Kola, Afri Cola and Mio Mio have taken a significant chunk out of Coca colas marketshare without competing on price. Instead, they focus on standout features like higher caffeine levels, local bottling in reusable glass bottles, and/or organic ingredients. And since it's working, more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon, like the red bull, the brewery Flensburger and even some localised water bottling brands all offer their own colas now.
In light of this, this advertising campaign from coca cola feels like a desperate move to me.
But owned in....
Here to remind anyone unaware of fantas wild wikipedia page.
Made in Germany? Well, so is Spezi, and Fritz cola, and Freeway Cola, and Ja! Cola, and a bunch of others.
"Come on, you guys used to love us!"

All coca-cola brands https://www.coca-colahellenic.com/en/our-24-7-portfolio/brands-a-z
Monster and JackDaniels also belong to them? Explains some stuff...
Depends where you live. This is one of their distribution company for Europe and 3rd in the world. You can read more about all their distribution companies here https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/coca-cola-system
Why would anyone pay brand name prices these days. The store brand in my local store is 30% of the cost of coke, Pepsi, etc. $15 for a 12-pack?! That’s just insanity.
I only buy Palestine Cola. It tastes much better and is a refreshing "fuck you" to genocide supporting Coca Cola and Pepsi
Is this why all Cola bottles are „a product by coca cola” and everything has a german word like bro stamped on it?
No one in Europe calls it that, though ;-)
I get a chuckle every time people call it a "Cola drink". In Spanish (LatAm) it means "butt drink" 👀
I do, when speaking English. Each language has its own word, of course: refrescos, Erfrischungsgetränke, napoje gazowane, etc.
In the Netherlands it is usually grouped as frisdrank, loosely translated as fresh-drink.
Fizzy drinks, pop.
Soda is used to describe specifically soda water alone. At least in my experience
Kind of like how cookies are a type of biscuit rather than the name used for all biscuits.
That very much depends on the country and the language. Claiming there is a standard word in Europe for anything is pretty much nonsense.
It is called "sodavand" in Danish for example, while fizzy water is called "danskvand".
Yeah that's why I said "in my experience"; I'm aware other places would have different names and was only speaking for my area, of which I'm unaware of its bounds. It's likely just the UK but don't know if the same kind of logic is used for other English speaking Europeans or not (when speaking English and not the native language of their region anyway).
Soft drink over here in Australia (at least in NSW) 👋
Also what the wiki page is called so I'm gonna say we are right and everyone else is wrong 😂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink
In portuguese: refrigerantes, as in the same thing as you’d call the freakin liquid inside an air conditioner system
In Sweden our tasty sugar drinks are "saft" (uncarbonated) and "läsk" (carbonated).
The word ending "-igt" is used to describe that something "is like".
"saftigt" means "mmm, juicy, good" "läskigt" means "scary"
Booblenpuppen.
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