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Dr Pepper Snapple merges with Keurig Green Mountain

29th January 2018

Horizontal integration in the US beverage market with Keurig Dr Pepper hoping to have access to "unrivalled distribution capability to reach virtually every point-of-sale in North America".

This implies that here are obvious marketing economies of scale to be gained from the merger, although how far they are going to be realised is open to debate.

Dr Pepper Snapple merges with Keurig Green Mountain https://t.co/jDfxlK22GN
— BBC Business (@BBCBusiness) January 29, 2018

Graham Watson

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