Mello Yello will decrease in sales due to vault.
Vault Red Blitz will be introduced and sell fairly well.
Coke Zero will be promoted a lot more.
Mdx will be released in cans.
S.M. Cranberry Splash will come back around summertime and stay.
Mountain Dew will release new line extension and it will be a hit.
Mdx will have a line extension.? Mdx Agent Blue ?
Fanta Citrus goes wide.
Coke will release new coke machines.
Coke introduces new citrus product, not competing with any other drink on market, milder than vault and smooth.
Pepsi releases Pepsi Chocolate.


things i wish would happen:
Pepsi Vanilla returns
Josta comes back
SoBe Mr.Green returns
Surge would come back and stay with vault and get rid of mello yello.


THA END

please reply with your 2007 predictions

in 2008
i predict
the complete discontinuation of MDX.

My predictions for 2007 in Mexico:

Coca-Cola will release even more healthy or diet drinks...
Pepsi will release more limited edition sodas...

FIN

The gross national sales of the soda pop will decline by 0.45 percent. Weekly retail store "hot" sales of soda pop will reach an all time frenzy.

Prediction: These dozens of cases of sugar-sweetened soda I have will be long gone by June [img]tongue.gif[/img]

That's not a prediction....that's a given. LOL

I know that Cherry Coke will get a face lift, along with a new name for the Diet Cherry Coke....and a few new "diet" drinks from Coke.
Also, the GREAT Enviga will be out!

I would say my predictions are
Coca Cola with Lime will be gone by April-Diet
Coke with Lime will soldier on.
Black Cherry Vanilla Coke will start to dissappear.

Doug

There will be 486 new energy drinks brought out into the market somewhere in the US. 483 of these will be dead within 2 months.

There will be 469 new member to the bevboard posting for help in selling their garage full of "the next great" energy drink.

There will be at least one new thread asking for support in a class action lawsuit against "fill in the blank" because the product or service didn't live up to the hype presented at the investment seminar.

There will be at least one new obnoxious member touted "the next great" energy drink. Everyone will argue with him on his validity of information. Then one day he will be gone.


Other than that I will say that each of the big three will have several new products hit the shelves. One or two of the total amount will do well enough to stick around for the rest of the year, only to be killed before summer the next year.

There will be major prince increases on ALL products due to PET and aluminum skyrocket pricing increases. Sales Volume will drop dramatically. Coke and Pepsi will panic and fire hundreds of corporate yesmen at a savings of 60,000,000 for each company.

Pepsi rather than saving the money they "saved" will launch a promotion to be " a corporate XXX (couldn't think of a position of the top of my head since they change names so ofton) for a year". They will spend 58,000,000 on marketing and the remaining to pay the 4 new employees for a year. Who will in turn have a clerical error than costs Pepsi 100,000,000 dollars.

Coke on the other hand will uses their 60,000,000 on making a soda that will compete against mountain dew. It will be called "launch" it will have a massive following for the 5 months that it is available in the market. Coke execs will not see an immediate massive decline in dews numbers and will kill off "launch".

then we will start all over as we will then we have several hundred new members for 2008 who have "the next great" energy drink.....

pepsi will intro more energy drinks, and lipton teas, more starbucks products - push plastic - make more money - cans are dead

Slurm will return in '07