A.G. Barr p.l.c.

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Company Overview


Company: A.G. Barr p.l.c.
Industry: Carbonated Beverages
Website: http://www.agbarr.co.uk

If you're looking for the kinds of bottled drinks you won't find in a bar, A.G. Barr offers quite a variety. The company manufactures, bottles, distributes, and markets an array of carbonated soft drinks, including IRN-BRU, Tizer, D'N'B, and Orangina (which it makes under license from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the beverage company spun off from Cadbury in 2008). IRN-BRU is a Scottish institution -- it leads all soft drink brands in Scotland -- based on a complex, century-old recipe that the company guards like a state secret. A.G. Barr also bottles Findlays brand mineral water. The company has four production facilities located in the UK.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 246.6 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Sales -16.5 (2009)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 24.8 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Net Income -25.9 (2009)
Number of Employees 910 (2007)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 0.0 (2007)
Fiscal Year-End January