Which beverage company licensed Sunkist orange soda in 1986?!
Which beverage company licensed Sunkist orange soda in 1986?
Answers:
Cadbury Schweppes
In 1986, Cadbury Schweppes plc, a British beverage company, acquired the Sunkist Orange Soda license, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, Sunkist continues to be the #1 Orange Soda. It’s like sunshine in a can with its real Orange smell and taste. Sunkist Soda fills people with that good energy they can only get from hanging out with friends and doing things they love to do. That’s what it means to Feel all Orange Inside?, something only an authentic brand like Sunkist can really say.
Sadly I knew the answer before looking it up lol, worked too many years in grocery store mgmt.!
Source(s):
http://www.sunkistsoda.com/noflash.html#...
Sunkist is the name of a brand of orange-flavored soft drink launched in 1978. In Canada, a decaffeinated version of the drink is marketed as Cplus, although packaging indicates a small quantity of Sunkist-brand juice is present.
It was first licensed by Sunkist Growers to General Cinema Corporation, which was the leading independent bottler of Pepsi-Cola products at the time. The soft drink was the idea of Mark Stevens, who foresaw the potential based on market research which indicated that, worldwide, orange was the third best selling soft drink flavor (largely due to The Coca-Cola Company's Fanta brand).
(as often the case -- someone (SugarPie) beat me to it)
my source says 1978;
Manufacturer Sunkist Growers, General Cinema Corporation USA;
"Introduced 1978 (nation-wide)" --
Ingredients by-the-way (marked on 20oz. bottle):
Carbonated water, High fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, Citric acid, Sodium benzoate (preservative), Food starch, Natural flavors, [unlike most orange soda brands] Caffeine, Glycerol ester of wood rosin, Ascorbic acid [Vitamin C, to you & me] (preservative), Yellow 6.
In Canada -- my area of the planet -- known as "CPlus"