Transcript: Retailers' Shelves Make Room For Coconut Water

RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
09-08-2009
Retailers' Shelves Make Room For Coconut Water

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time 11:00-12:00 PM


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And a couple of entrepreneurs in New York have spent the last five years trying to get New Yorkers hooked on a new drink: coconut water. They seem to be having some success enough, at least, to get Pepsi and Coke to buy in.

Ilya Marritz of member station WNYC reports.

ILYA MARRITZ: You could compare coconut water to the soccer World Cup, a huge deal in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In the U.S., not so much. But that's changing. Mike Kirban co-founded Vita Coco in 2004.

Mr. MIKE KIRBAN (Co-founder, Vita Coco): What we're ...

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