139
Number of calories in a 330ml can of Coca-Cola.
20%
Percentage cut in calorie consumption via soft drinks being targeted in the US over the next decade. Coca-Cola,
PepsiCo
and Dr Pepper have pledged to reduce serving sizes and boost the marketing of low- and no-calorie alternatives.
12%
Percentage fall in calories consumed through sugary drinks in the US from 2000 to 2013, according to Beverage Digest. Consumers are opting for water or low-calorie drinks, while high-sugar drinks were removed from school vending machines.
Photo of the week: Climate wobbles
This lady on stilts in New York’s Battery Park is, impressively, not a street performer but a climate activist who is about to join the “Flood Wall Street” demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Monday. The organisers of the march and sit-in, which blocked streets near the New York Stock Exchange in a protest against the role of big business in climate change, said beforehand that they had set up a bail fund “for everyone who will leave Wall Street in plastic zip-tie handcuffs”. In the event, about 100 people were arrested, including a man dressed as “Frostpaw” the polar bear. Let’s just hope, for the sake of their own balance, that no stilts-walkers lost the use of their hands. PHOTOGRAPH: ADREES LATIF/REUTERS
Getty to know: harlene de Carvalho-Heineken As the only child of the late Freddy Heineken, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken inherited a controlling share of the Dutch beer giant, which she used last week to knock back an approach from SABMiller. It was a rare instance of De Carvalho-Heineken showing her hand. As befits one of the richest women in the world ($10 billion-plus), and one whose father was once kidnapped, she prefers to remain enigmatic, living in Knightsbridge in London with her financier husband Michel de Carvalho, a former actor and Olympic skier . After Freddy's death in 2002, the law graduate attended a shareholders' meeting in which she said the family was "part of Heineken's past, present and future". It's just too bad for SABMiller that she appears to be sticking to that policy 12 years later.
The lexicon: Endies Are you Employed but have No Disposable Income or Savings? Congratulations, you are part of a depressing new acronym. The term "Endies" has been coined by the think tank Centre for London, which applied it to people on modest incomes in the UK capital who have given up on the idea of property ownership and can only just about afford to pay city rents. The Endies are characterised by their inability to socialise or splurge due to insufficient funds and so they shop in discount supermarkets, watch TV for entertainment and regard relatively low-cost takeaways as a treat. Ireland never quite got "Yuppies" at the same time as the Loadsamoney-era UK, but as socio-economic labels go, "Endies" does seem very familiar.
The list: Retailers in retreat 1 Mothercare: The maternity chain has announced it will close 50-75 loss-making outlets and modernise the business into a digitally-led affair.
2 Tesco: Hot on the heels of its £250 million profits overstatement, it emerged that Tesco has mothballed a £22 million Cambridgeshire hypermarket just weeks before it was due to open.
3 Phones4U: Some 1,700 jobs are being lost from the UK retailer, after phone networks EE and Vodafone pulled out of deals to sell devices through its stores.
4 Abercrombie & Fitch: It has sold “authentic American clothing since 1892”, but it is now in the process of shutting down about 180 stores and is removing its own logo from its clothes.
5 Crocs: The maker of foam clogs is closing as many as 100 stores, as more consumers decide that fashion trumps comfort.
