Katy Gillett, The National, Middle East fizzy drinks brands enjoy sales surge as Pepsi and Coca-Cola face boycott battle, 19 Feb 2025 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“While soft drinks have historically been popular across the region, demand for big-name alternatives is being driven by the Palestinian-led\u00a0Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which campaigns against brands it accuses of links with Israel, including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, experts said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I thought this was a useful reflection on the impact of MENA consumer regional boycotts on certain products. I’m not a soft drinks fan, but I would try the \u2018date cola\u2018 discussed in this article! Katy Gillett, The National, Middle East fizzy drinks brands enjoy sales surge as Pepsi and Coca-Cola face boycott battle, 19…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446,320,275,310,277,276],"tags":[654,402,55,280],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gaza","category-mena","category-palestine","category-saudi-arabia","category-uae","tag-mena-business","tag-palestine","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}