John Sunderland Quotations

We have secured a premium price for a substantial number of our beverages businesses, ... We will retain robust and profitable beverages operations in the U.S.A. and Europe and simultaneously broaden our strategic options for the further development of the company.

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Our beverages operations are now clearly focused in profitable markets of North America, Continental Europe and Australia,

With a good performance in the first half, we remain on track to achieve our full-year financial targets,

Finland, for example, has a world-renowned education system which has played a major part in its economic transformation.

Europe is our second-largest beverages market and has demonstrated strong profit growth over the last few years,

This is another significant step in consolidating and strengthening the independent bottling system in the U.S. It will further enhance the strategic alignment between Dr Pepper/Seven Up and its key bottlers,

The adjustments we have made to the transaction in no way diminish the validity of this strategy,