Producers of the soft drinks Rubicon and IRN-BRU AG Barr have announced that they will expand into the ice cream market with an investment of £40m to lease a new factory in Milton Keynes.
The lease of a new facility in Milton Keynes comes after surprisingly positive profits for 2011, with AG Barr’s juice sales rising by 9.4% compared with 3.8% for the market as a whole. The new factory is being leased rather than bought outright; this indicates the firm is exercising caution over announcing a number of…
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