Coca-Cola BlāK
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| Type | Coffee flavored Cola |
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| Manufacturer | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Country of origin | France |
| Introduced | mid-2006 |
| Discontinued | 2008 |
| Related products | BibiCaffe; Pepsi coffee drinks including Kona (Pennsylvania, 1994-1996), Tarik (Malaysia), Max Cappuccino (France, Finland, Norway, Ireland and the UK), and Cappuccino (India, Eastern Europe, Mexico, some Central American), Future Coffee Cola (China) |
Coca-Cola BlāK was a coffee-flavored soft drink introduced by Coca-Cola in 2006 and discontinued in 2008. The mid-calorie drink was introduced first in France, before making its way to the United States and other markets.
Coca-Cola BlāK launched in the United States[1] on April 3, 2006. Coca-Cola BlāK launched in Canada on August 29, 2006[2] with an event staged in Toronto, Ontario at Dundas Square offering free bottles of the product.[3] On 31 August 2007, trade magazine Beverage Digest announced that Coca-Cola would discontinue the drink's sale within the United States once concentrate supplies ran out.[4]
In February 14, 2007, the drink made its way to Central Europe as it launched in the Czech Republic. French produced Coca-Cola BlāK could also be found in Poland, Slovakia, in some stores in Lithuania and in E.Leclerc stores in Slovenia.
The French and Canadian versions of Coca-Cola BlāK were sweetened only with sugar. The U.S. version of Coca-Cola BlāK replaced sugar with high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium.
Consumer Reports taste-testers found the French version to be less sweet and to contain more coffee flavor.
The American and Canadian versions had a plastic resealable cap on a glass bottle that resembled the classic Coke bottle, whereas the French/Czech version was a bottle shape formed from aluminum.
In 2010, Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, released coffee dispenser machines in Mexico under the brand name BlāK.[5]
Nutritional facts
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See also
- Coffee-flavored Pepsi
- Syrup, a 1999 novel featuring a plot revolving around a fictional but similar product
References
- ↑ Cola Blak arrives in the United States, 2006-03-15
- ↑ Coca-Cola Blak enters Canada, 2006-08-31
- ↑ Coca-Cola launches Blak with a bevy of beauties, 2006-08-30
- ↑ Coke Blak goes dark, 2007-08-31
- ↑ Black, Thomas (2010-10-26). "Coca-Cola Femsa Begins Coffee-Dispenser Business in Mexico". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ↑ "The Coca-Cola Company" (PDF). Coca-Cola. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ↑ Taken from a Nutrition PDF from the Coca-Cola website.
- ↑ "Erreur 404" (PDF). Coca-colablak.fr. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
External links
- Coca-Cola gives out thousands of Coke BlāK samples in Times Square
