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Big summer campaign for Mentos gum

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Mentos is launching a £1.5m media campaign this summer that it claims will deliver a “refreshing boost” to gum sales for retailers across the UK. The campaign focuses on consumer taste tests that the brand says have found Mentos is “Unbeaten on Taste and Flavour”.…

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