Executive Summary
A.G.BARR p.l.c. is the UK's leading independent manufacturer of branded carbonated soft drinks. Our long established company produces a large range of soft drinks including IRN-BRU, Tizer, D'N'B, and Orangina (produced by us under licence from brand owner Cadbury Schweppes). We have 4 production sites at Cumbernauld, Mansfield, Atherton and Pitcox supported by distribution centres covering the whole of the UK.
At the Atherton production site we produce a variety of flavours in 330ml cans and Orangina in the famous bulby bottle. At Cumbernauld and Mansfield our soft drinks are produced in several sizes of PET (polyethylene teraphthalate) (or plastic) bottle. We produce 250ml, 500ml and 2 litre at both Mansfield and Cumbernauld, with 1 litre, 1.5 litre and 3 litre being exclusive to Mansfield. Also at the Cumbernauld site which opened in 1995, we have a 750ml Returnable Glass Bottle line which was the first to be installed in the UK for many years. Barr are the biggest distributor of this environmentally friendly pack.
Findlays Spring Natural Mineral Water is a wholly owned subsidiary of ours. Findlays is a fully accredited, top grade exceptional mineral water with its source at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills, Pitcox near Edinburgh. the production process is very similar across our four sites.
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