Coca Cola to Launch Fuze Tea in India

In a move to widen its portfolio of healthier beverages, Coca cola is about launch Fuze range of teas in india,($1 billion global brand), after the launch of Coca cola zero last year. The fruit-juice based Fuze tea would compete with HUL’s Lipton ice tea, a venture between HUL and PepsiCo.

Coca cola has got ambitions to enter into packaged tea category since its venture with Nestle was called off. The ready to drink tea segment is estimated around Rs.100 crore. Industry experts are of the view that the current move would reduce its dependence on carbonated and also de-risks seasonality of beverages.

Fuze tea will be introduced in 250 ml pet bottles priced at Rs 30 each. In the first phase, the company would be launching its Fuze tea in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, Goa and Delhi.

Sprite says “Chalo Apni Chaal”

Sprite, the lime and lemony drink of Coca cola, is all set to come up with new campaign which says “chalo apni chaal”. Sprite, in the previous campaign, just talked about quenching thrust and nothing else. Whereas the new campaign mainly focus on to the youth, which puts the character in the campaign as a trickster whose aim is to get a girl which is absolutely different from its previous campaign. I hope the new campaign would favor the brand in enhancing its share. Moreover, in India, it is a practice to have lemon water in the summer to cool the body. And I hope this is another factor that would have contributed the brand to capture sizable market share. In Indian cola market, coca cola is the visible market leader with thumps up and sprite, 15% & 14% market share respectively as per the industry estimates. Even experts in the industry asserted that sprite would push other brands down by taking leading position in the lime/lemony market.