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Punchy drinks enter hydration market

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Punchy has launched two canned hydration drinks that it claims are the first of their kind in the UK. It hopes the new drinks will help premiumise a market still dominated by sports-led, plastic packaged, artificial variants. They join Punchy’s current range of Sipping Sodas,…

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