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- THE WEEK, Page 17BUSINESSThe Clear Alternative
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- Colorless products aim to capture the clean generation
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- Let's be absolutely clear about this: if you can see through
- it, it's got to be good. Take underarm deodorants. There's Ban
- Clear and Mennen Lady Speed Stick Crystal Clean. No more of that
- opaque green stuff. Dishpan hands these days go for Procter &
- Gamble's lucid Liquid Ivory -- clear soap in a clear bottle --
- over white Ivory detergent. Booze? Vodka is in, or maybe a glass
- of light white wine, or a beer in a clear glass bottle.
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- The trend, a reflection of the nation's prohealth,
- proenvironment leanings, has also invaded the $48 billion
- soft-drink market. Coca-Cola has the latest entry: Tab Clear,
- a colorless, calorie-free version of its 29-year-old diet drink.
- Coke says it's being positioned as a "mainstream cola," though
- it will have to swim against Crystal Pepsi, a low-sodium,
- no-preservative version of the industry's second-best-selling
- soft drink, as well as a pack that includes 30 other transparent
- rivals, such as 7-Up, Sprite and, for the real back-to-basics
- crowd, water.
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