RENEE MONTAGNE, host: NPR's business news starts with Coke juicing up its China business.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The world's biggest soft drink maker is about to become the biggest juice seller in the world's most populous country. Coca-Cola has struck a deal to pay more than $2 billion for China's largest juice company. Coke must have really wanted this deal, because it's agreed to pay three times the current share value of China's Huiyuan Juice Group. It'll be Coke's biggest ever overseas deal, and it shows how much the U.S. company is banking on oversea markets like China for future growth.
The world's biggest soft drink maker is about to become the biggest juice seller in the world's most populous country. Coca-Cola has struck a deal to pay more than $2 billion for China's largest juice company. It'll be Coke's biggest-ever overseas deal.