Mars Drinks wins five year agreement to deliver KLIX and FLAVIA
drink vending solutions to O2 in the UK
Tuesday 02 December, 2008
Mars Drinks has just won a five year contract to provide its KLIX® drinks vending machines and FLAVIA® drink stations to O2’s regional and local offices throughout the UK. In total over 100 Mars Drinks machines will be installed across O2’s UK sites, delivering over three million drinks to O2’s employees every year.
Basingstoke, UK, December 2, 2008:
Mars Drinks has just won a five year contract to provide its KLIX® drinks vending machines and FLAVIA® drink stations to O2’s regional and local offices throughout the UK. In total over 100 Mars Drinks machines will be installed across O2’s UK sites, delivering over three million drinks to O2’s employees every year.
“Ensuring our people are motivated and happy at work is vital for us as a company,” explains Sara Burton, National Soft Services Manager at O2.
Ian McGrady, Sales Director
at Mars Drinks,
commented, “Knowing that your employer cares enough to provide services on-site to meet your needs is a powerful thing. Working with such a proactive, innovative and people-focused company as O2 has been a great experience for us.”
To ensure O2 employees immediately get maximum benefit from their new drink vending machines, Mars Drinks teams will visit each site during the first month after installation. Feedback collated from these events will then be shared with all O2 employees.
The five year agreement includes 59 KLIX machines and 50 FLAVIA drink stations. Mars Drinks also provides approximately 25 FLAVIA machines to O2 retail stores for customers to use.
To find out more about how Mars Drinks can help your organisation with drink vending systems, call: 0800 0323 444 or visit the Mars Drinks website: http://www.marsdrinks.co.uk/Default.aspx.
For further information, contact: Toni O’Sullivan, tosullivan@thebluedoor.com,
01252 899969
Editors Notes:
1: Mars Drinks
- Created in 1955, Mars Drinks is the hot drinks division of Mars, Incorporated, a family owned company, with six industry leading business units – Chocolate, Petcare, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience and now Wrigley Gum & Sugar. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Mars, Incorporated operates in more than 79 countries. With the addition of Wrigley, a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, lollipops, and chocolate, Mars has grown from 50,000 to 65,000 associates worldwide and from $22 billion to $28 billion in annual revenue. The combination of Mars and Wrigley brings together two strong, International businesses and creates one of the world’s leading confectionary companies. The portfolio spans a variety of categories such as confectionary items, main meals, side dishes, beverages, snack foods, frozen snacks, organic foods, pet foods, and now also includes Wrigley’s vast portfolio of gum brands and sugar items. Mars Drinks is the market leader in drinks vending systems in its markets, namely UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan. A business with a turnover in excess of $350 million, Mars Drinks produces over one billion drinks per year with its two brands: FLAVIA® single portion fresh beverages; and KLIX® in-cup beverages. For further information please visit: http://www.marsdrinks.co.uk/ or www.mars.com/global/home.htm
2:
Telefónica O2 UK Limited
is a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 19.1 million mobile customers and over 260,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2008.
• Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc which is a business division of Telefónica S.A. and which owns O2 in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 44.9 million customers.
• In 2006 Telefónica Europe acquired Be, the UK fixed broadband provider, and in October 2007 O2 launched its broadband service using the Be network.
• O2 is the naming rights partner of The O2, the world-class entertainment venue.
• O2 was ranked the 6th best place to work in the Best Companies to Work for 2008 List and has been awarded a three-star accreditation denoting an ’extraordinary’ company.
• O2 was launched on 1 May 2002 and now has more customers than any other UK mobile network.
• O2’s UK mobile network covers 99% of the UK’s population. O2’s 3G network covers over 80% of the UK population and is fully HSDPA-enabled, providing speeds of up to 1.8 MBps for customers with an HSDPA-enabled device.
• Telefónica Europe also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany.
• For b-roll footage of O2, please visit www.digitalnewsagency.com
• For further press information about O2 go to http://mediacentre.o2.co.uk/ and the O2 Digital News Centre at www.o2.co.uk/dnc
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