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Total retail dollars from the sale of wine, beer and distilled spirits jumped almost 5% in 1999, from over $108.3 billion in 1998 to more than $113.5 billion last year, with on-premise sales accounting for $57.2 billion of that total.
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The beer industry / category is a $91.6 Billion dollar category anually.
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Beer accounts for 52% of the share of total beverage alcohol retail dollar sales and 85% of total beverage alcohol consumption in gallons.
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In the United States, a record 3.2 billion gallons of bottled water was consumed in 1997, a 1053 percent increase from 20 years ago. That works out to at least one 12-ounce can per day for every man, woman and child.
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Carbonated soda pop provides more added sugar in a typical 2-year-old toddler's diet than cookies, candies and ice cream combined.
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Fifty-six percent of 8-year-olds down soft drinks daily, and a third of teenage boys drink at least three cans of soda pop per day.
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Not only are soft drinks widely available everywhere, from fast food restaurants to video stores, they're now sold in 60 percent of all public and private middle schools and high schools nationwide.
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For each additional daily serving of sugar-sweetened soft drink consumed during a nearly two-year study, the risk of obesity increased 1.6 times.
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School children who drank soft drinks consumed almost 200 more calories per day than their counterparts who didn't down soft drinks.
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Colas contain 35 to 38 milligrams of caffeine per 12-ounce can, or roughly 28 percent of the amount found in an 8-ounce cup of coffee.
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Recent blind taste tests conducted in Baltimore found that only 8 percent of regular soft drink consumers could identify the difference between regular and caffeine-free soft drinks.
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Soft drink purchases by teens in schools increased 1,100 percent over the past 20 years, while dairy purchases have decreased by 30 percent.
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The soft drink industry earns $60 billion and produces 15 billion gallons of soft drinks a year.
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A typical 12-once can of regular soda contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar.
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The average male in the 12- to 19-year age group drinks the equivalent of 868 cans a year.
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Next to water, tea is the world’s most consumed drink.
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Water is the world's most consumed / popular drink.
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Beverage industry's revenue for the year 2007 was approximately $42.5 billion USD, with an estimated gross profit of 35.18%.
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Soft drinks account for more than 25% of all drinks consumed in the U. S.
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