Sprite — Wholesale Supply

Almost nobody books a container of Sprite alone. Sprite is the line that completes a Coca-Cola-family load — cola, orange, lemon-lime — and the question buyers actually put to us is not whether to list it but how much of the container it should occupy. FMCG Depot supplies genuine, EU-sourced Sprite in original manufacturer packaging from Aalter in Belgium, shipping by case, pallet or full container load to buyers in more than 60 countries, and beverages for wholesale buyers sets out the wider range it loads with. What follows is a container-composition guide rather than a brand write-up.

Sprite's role in a Coca-Cola-family container

A carbonate container has three jobs: cover the cola decision, cover the fruit decision, and cover the shopper who wants neither a cola nor an orange. Sprite is the third. It is the clear, colourless option that holds a stable share of the fixture in almost every market it reaches, which makes it the line that keeps a container's flavour spread complete rather than the line that drives its volume. Buyers composing that spread almost always take Fanta by the pallet on the same booking, because orange and lemon-lime together cover the non-cola half of the shelf and the two move at similar rates in most import markets.

Deciding the cola, orange and lemon-lime split

There is no universal ratio, and any supplier who gives you one has not looked at your market. The split follows your own sell-through: mature retail markets usually weight cola heavily and treat citrus as a steady secondary, while hot-climate import markets often pull the clear carbonates harder than a European planogram would suggest. What we can do is quote more than one split against the same container so you can compare landed cost per case before committing, and then hold the agreed composition on the pro-forma so the load that ships is the load you modelled.

Single-variant pallets, mixed pallets, and when each is right

The composition decision is really a pallet decision. Single-variant pallets are simplest at the far end: they are quick to check in, quick to allocate to a customer and unambiguous on the packing list, which suits a buyer who is redistributing whole pallets to their own accounts. Mixed pallets suit a buyer breaking bulk themselves — a smaller importer, a cash-and-carry, a distributor testing a range — because they let several lines travel without committing a full pallet position to each. Mixed-brand and mixed-variant pallets are possible where allocation allows, and every one of them is broken out line by line on the packing list so a clearance agent never has to open a pallet to know what is on it. How many cases sit on a layer, how many layers build a pallet and how many pallet positions a 20ft or 40ft takes are all confirmed in writing on the pro-forma against the specific allocation offered.

Sprite formats offered for export

We work across aluminium cans, in loose trays and in shrink-wrapped multipacks, and PET in single-serve and take-home sizes, with availability following current allocation rather than a fixed list. Format matters to composition because it changes weight per pallet: carbonated soft drinks are weight-limited cargo, so a container reaches its payload ceiling well before it fills, and swapping cans for large-format PET changes how many pallet positions you can actually load. The same arithmetic is why buyers pairing carbonates with still water plan the two together — importers taking Evian by the pallet on the same enquiry are usually balancing a heavy still line against a lighter carbonate one to use the payload properly.

Round out the citrus and cola mix

Once the Coca-Cola-family block is set, the rest of the container is about covering the fixture rather than adding volume. A cola such as Coca-Cola anchors it, 7UP can extend the lemon-lime facing where a market carries two, and a premium still line — Fiji Water by the pallet is the usual choice for hospitality and upper-tier retail accounts — gives the load a higher-value item that is not competing with anything else on the invoice.

Consolidating across categories works on the same payload logic. Because a beverage container runs out of weight before it runs out of cube, adding a light category fills the space that would otherwise ship empty: buyers taking Snickers by the pallet on a Sprite booking are using leftover volume to spread the freight cost across more invoice value.

Zero-sugar Sprite and the 2026 Gulf excise banding

If your container is Gulf-bound, the variant split inside the Sprite lines is now a cost decision as well as a demand one. From the start of 2026 the UAE and Saudi Arabia moved beverage excise from a flat percentage of value to a tiered volumetric model keyed to sugar content per 100ml, which means the zero-sugar variant and the regular variant of the same brand can land at different duty. Treat the two as separate lines when you model the load rather than as one line with a minority variant; we quote them separately as a matter of course, and you should confirm the current banding with the authority in your own market.

Documents and origin on a mixed load

A composed container is still one shipment. It travels on one commercial invoice with each brand, format and variant itemised, one packing list mapped to the pallets as they were built, and one export declaration. Where the destination has a preferential trade arrangement with the EU, a EUR.1 movement certificate is what evidences the EU origin of the goods; a Certificate of Origin is issued where the market or the letter of credit calls for one instead. Batch and best-before information is recorded on the shipping paperwork, and remaining shelf life is confirmed against the batches allocated rather than promised in advance.

Questions that come up when composing a Sprite container

Can Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite ship on one container?

Yes, subject to allocation. It remains one booking with one document set, and the brands appear as separate lines throughout the paperwork.

How much Sprite fits on a pallet?

That depends on the exact format and the allocation offered, so it is confirmed on the pro-forma with the rest of the load plan rather than quoted as a standing figure.

Can the composition be changed after quotation?

Up to the point the allocation is reserved, yes — this is exactly why we quote alternative splits, so a change is a re-price rather than a re-plan.

Which Incoterm suits a composed load?

EXW and FOB suit buyers with their own forwarder out of Antwerp or Rotterdam; CIF and DAP suit buyers who would rather we carry the freight arrangement to port or door.

If the ranging decision is still open, our piece on how buyers range Sprite against the rest of the fixture sets out the trade-offs before you fix a container composition.