1.   And competing private-label beverage makers regard Cott as a sitting duck.

2.   Bernoff said ReplayTV probably gave the beverage maker a good deal to gain a big-name advertiser.

3.   Beverage makers are hoping to score in the same way, say, that Tommy Hilfiger fashions did.

4.   Camerlin was the vehicle used by Quek earlier this year in his failed takeover bid for Singapore-based beverage maker Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd.

5.   Don Livingston called a major American car manufacturer, several fast-food companies and beverage makers to ask if they would sponsor his dragster for national competition.

6.   First though, the beverage makers have to find out whether consumers actually like the design.

7.   In a statement the beverage maker said trading results in the last three months have not achieved budget expectations.

8.   Its U.S. soft-drink business was hurt in the quarter by a price war with other beverage makers, particularly archrival Coca-Cola Co.

9.   Just when every beverage maker in America appears to have jumped on the energy drink bandwagon, though, youth fashions are moving in new directions.

10.   Moreover, companies like Coca-Cola Co. are trading at lofty prices, based on what analysts expect the beverage maker to earn.