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Jeera drink space hots up as Coca Cola strengthens play with RimZim
Relaunched in 2018, Coca Cola had acquired the cumin-flavoured Rimzim from Parle in the 1990s, but is only pressing the pedal on it now. The company did not respond to email queries
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Akshara Srivastava New Delhi
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Soft drinks major Coca Cola's India arm is strengthening its presence in the country's ethnic flavoured beverages market with its RimZim brand.
The Atlanta-headquartered company's bottlers in the northern region have already doubled production of the cumin-flavoured drink over the last few months.
'We are scaling our RimZim masala jeera soda offering to meet the rising consumer demand for traditional Indian homemade beverages,' a leading bottler told Business Standard.
He added that RimZim's current production at his facilities had risen to nearly 4 million units a month, up 100 per cent from two years ago.
'This reflects the brand's strong