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Stuff I can’t find!!

March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment

I am so angry!! Nothing is more aggravating that when you can’t find something.

On this occasion, though I may add to the list later, I have been looking for two things:

1) Supplier of 400mL PET soft drink bottles in Sydney
2) Supplier of post mix coke syrup in sydney

Visy, is supposedly one of the largest supplier of packaging in Australia and they certainly make PET bottles but they only make them in Brisbane so I would have to get a massive pallet of bottles shipped from Brisbane. I am working on my line of softdrinks and so am only very small scale and don’t want the extra costs in shipping that buying the bottles from Brisbane would incur. Being in the largest city in the country I would expect to be able to find someone who makes the bottles here so I can just go and pick them up, but I have not found another supplier yet. It seems that Visy is not only the largest supplier of PET bottles, but they seem to be the only one. The price is good though, $206.00/1,000 ex GST.

On the issue of post mix, I have not found a very good tasting cola syrup for my drinks carbonator. This is not to sell in my line of softdrinks, but just because I like cola and want to drink it myself. I would like to buy the syrup and add it to the soda water I make but I can not find it any where!!!!!!!! I am so angry.

There are so many forums with a heap of people asking exactly the same thing but no one ever answers the question. Every one says something vague like if you know the stock manager at Maccas you can get them to get you some!! Are you kidding me! Just answer the question!!

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Why can’t you just buy it from somewhere. No distributor in this country seems to stock it and instead pushes their own line of colas which they all invariably claim tastes as good as Coke.

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If you can buy this somewhere can someone let me know as there would be a lot of business in it for someone judging by the number of times this exact question is asked on the net. If someone tells me I could ask at my local pub or at a maccas I will scream. I want the name and preferably the contact details of a distributor who will sell boxes of brand name coke syrup to people without the coke branded post mix machines in a retail outlet (since coke won’t).

Tags: Social Commentary

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Roderick // Jun 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Coca Cola, the world’s most recognised brand, and one of the worlds largest and most successful consumer product companies of all time, are not going to make the formula for the secret recipe syrup all that easy to get. Their supply chain and consumer market is guarded with the tenacity of the Taliban against Donald Trump setting up a Golf Resort in Helmand province. The things that have made you angry have made them rich.

    Read “The Other Guy Blinked” by Pepsi CEO Roger Enrico to get an idea of the money and influence involved in this business.

    If you do get your hands on genuine CC product outside the CC distribution channel, you could end up in the CC sponsored section of Guantanamo Bay.

    Nothing to stop you coming up with another good tasting formula though…

    (interesting that in the Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, the origins of Kryten’s original ship, the Nova 5, are given as the ship being involved in an advertising campaign for Coke).