And in the real world....Coca-Cola, Lloyds, Shed Media, Irn Bru, Tizer, Gordon Brown

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The World...latest business news

Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft drinks company, says it is "ramping up" efforts to stress the importance of a healthy lifestyle in combating obesity, in response to a growing push by health advocates for a federal tax on sugared drinks and sodas.

Europe's competition chief gave her strongest signal yet that Lloyds Banking Group may have to be broken up

Shed Media has signed a product placement deal for the US edition of its genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? , which it hopes will help persuade the UK government to allow similar advertising.

AG Barr, the producer of Irn Bru and Tizer, exceeded expectations with a strong advance in interim sales and profits fuelled in part by the relatively clement British summer.

Banking executives will be disqualified from holding directorships if regulators believe they have overpaid themselves and their employees, Gordon Brown declared yesterday.

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