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Business Overview

Mars Drinks

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Bite-sized facts:

  • More than 650 Associates
  • Two manufacturing sites
  • Five brands in total: KLIX®, FLAVIA®, ALTERRA™, THE BRIGHT TEA CO.™ and DOVE®/GALAXY® hot chocolate drinks.
Our KLIX® system offers a selection of leading drinks brands matched to the local market

Mars Drinks provides more than a billion drinks to more than 35,000 businesses each year. With U.S. headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and U.K. headquarters in Basingstoke, we employ 670 Associates in 10 locations. Our business categories are KLIX® drinks vending systems and Mars Drinks single-serve technology.

The KLIX® system offers a selection of leading drinks brands matched to the local market, including our own-brand hot chocolate drink, CHOCAMENTO™. The Mars Drinks single-serve brands are available in FLAVIA® machines, and include ALTERRA™ coffees, THE BRIGHT TEA CO.™ teas and DOVE®/GALAXY® hot chocolate, served using the FLAVIA® FRESH RELEASE™ System.

Our Principles in Action

We are committed to helping our customers on their sustainability journey. By 2013, we will purchase 100 percent of our coffee beans from certified sources and 100 percent of our black tea and cocoa from certified sources by 2015. With our support, the cooperative we source Kenyan coffee from became the first smallholder cooperative in Kenya to receive Rainforest Alliance certification. We are also working toward making 100 percent of our Freshpacks recyclable by 2015.

We are proud of the energy efficiency of our machines. For example, in the U.K. our FLAVIA CREATION® 400 machine was found on average to be more than 50 percent more energy efficient over a typical week than those of our three leading competitors1. We also have a strong focus on our Associates and operations. The Mars Volunteer Program is active at most of our sites, and our two factories have achieved zero production waste to landfill.

1The three leading competitors: Keurig B3000, Starbucks ICup and Wolfgang Puck CAFEEXPRESS

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