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...By buying Dr Pepper, JAB is acquiring a bottling and sales network that could be used to distribute various kinds of beverages....
...The Dr Pepper Snapple group has, meanwhile, gone in the opposite direction, taking full ownership of its largest bottling partner in 2006....
...All the same, about 65,000 people a year make a pilgrimage to Dublin to tour a small factory in the centre of town that has been bottling Dr Pepper since 1891....
...Yet there is already a large degree of hope in the share price. The beverage unit, now rechristened the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, is to be demerged with a US listing next year....
...It planned to either sell the beverages business which includes Dr Pepper and Seven-Up in the US, or demerge it by listing it on a US stock exchange....
...About 24 per cent of its fizzy drinks are distributed by the Dr Pepper bottling group, with much of the rest distributed through bottlers part-owned by Coke or Pepsi....
...Carlyle Group, which owns the Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group, the largest independent manufacturer and distributor of carbonated soft drinks in the US, is also preparing to make an offer....
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