Beverages Industry Competitors

Effervescence keeps business bubbling at Anadolu Efes. Part of the Anadolu Group, the company produces and markets beer and soft drinks throughout Turkey, Russia, and Eastern Europe. With the #1 position, Anadolu Efes commands about 80% of the beer market in Turkey....

One of Southern California's and the nation's largest black-owned businesses, Beauchamp Distributing delivers both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to retailers throughout the Los Angeles area. The company is managed by its founder, Pat Beauchamp who located his company in Compton, California in 1984; Beauchamp started up the company in 1971....

Beijing Shunxin Agriculture produces and exports spirits and vegetable and fruit juices throughout Asia and beyond. Its spirits are marketed under the Huadeng and Niulanshan brand names, while its juices are typically branded as Qianshou products. The company additionally processes pork and raises livestock....

It's been a long, long time since Messrs. Berry and Rudd took up their premises on St. James's Street in London. Berry Bros. & Rudd, which touts itself as the oldest wine and spirits merchant in Britain, has sold its wares from the same headquarters shop for more than 300 years....

C&C Group (also known as Cantrell & Cochrane) is the beverage company behind such brands as Bulmers cider. C&C also exports its Magners brand cider to Europe, UK, and the US; its Carolans Irish Cream Liqueur, Frangelico liqueur, and Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey are imported to more than 80 markets outside Ireland....

Castle Brands hopes to earn a king's ransom selling imported distilled spirits. Among its brands are Boru vodka (accounts for a third of sales), Sea Wynde rum, and Knappogue Castle whiskey. The company also owns 60% of the Celtic Crossing brand of Irish liqueur....

Cherokee Distributing Company is a wholesaler of Miller, Corona, Molson, and Beck's beer. The distributor, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, also sellsPabst Blue Ribbon and Heineken....

Click Wine Group imports mostly Australian wines to the US but has gained more fame from its French label, Fat Bastard. The company is a co-owner of the label, which sells for $10 to $12 a bottle and aims to strip wine of its perceived haughtiness. The wine is the third largest selling French brand in the US....

Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. (CCE) makes sure you can buy "The Real Thing" in the UK, as well as Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The company is the UK subsidiary of the world's #1 bottler of Coke products, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE manufactures and distributes more than 650,000 cases of Coca-Cola products -- including Coke, Capri-Sun, Fanta, Sprite, Lilt, Powerade, Nestea, Minute Maid, and Oasis -- every day, which equals about 240 million cases of soda, juice, water, and sports drinks annually....

There's something for just about every thirst at Constellation Europe. A subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Constellation Europe produces wine, flavored alcoholic beverages, cider, and bottled water. Available in approximately 50 European countries, the company's brands include Arbor Mist; Babycham; Blackthorn; Diamond White; Gaymer's Olde English and K ciders; Grants of St James's Wines; Old England, Pony, Red C, and Snoball alcopops; K Vodka Ice; QC; Stowells of Chelsea wine; Stone's Green Ginger Wine; Stowells of Chelsea; and Strathmore bottled waters (the UK's #1 bottled water)....

Duvel has a thing for blondes. Born in 1871, the Belgian brewer specializes in blonde, bottle-conditioned, high-fermentation beers that are enjoyed in more than 40 countries. Its brands include Maredsous, Bel Pils, Steendonk, Bernard, Ommegang, Vedett, and flagship Duvel (originally named Victory Ale to commemorate the end of World War I)....

Some may consider Eckes & Stock International the wild one of the Eckes AG family. Unlike its sister company juice-maker Eckes-Granin, this subsidiary sells wine and spirits. Eckes & Stock manufactures and sells more than 60 brands in 40 countries, including Austria, Italy, and the US....

Most famous for its Edensoy organic soymilk, Eden Foods offers approximately 250 other organic food products including canned beans and tomatoes, condiments, dry pasta, fruit and juices, oils and vinegars, and teas. Eden's products are made using ingredients from more than 300 certified-organic North American farms....

You could say that Eldridge Pope is the elder statesman of the British hospitality business. Founded in 1837, Eldridge, Pope & Co. operates about 135 pubs and inns in England and Wales, primarily in the south and west of England. During the past several years, the company sold off its high-street Toad bars or converted them into their Que Pasa Bar format....

Embotelladoras Arca, S.A. de C.V. (Arca) wants you to have some Joya in life. The second largest distributor of Coca-Cola products in Mexico (Coca-Cola FEMSA is #1), Arca sold its Joya trademarks and formulas to Coca-Cola in 2004 but continues to produce and distribute the brand itself....

Empresas Polar is the king of beers in Venezuela. Its Polar beer is one of that country's most popular brews. Empresas Polar also sells both domestic and imported wines and distributes PepsiCo beverages (through its Pepsi-Cola Venezuela subsidiary)....

The fortunes of Future Brands rest on the purveyance of potent potables. The company is a joint venture formed bythe US's Fortune Brands and Sweden's V&S Group. The Future Brands collaboration was prompted in part by V&S's major push in 2001 to increase distribution of Absolut, which is the top-selling imported vodka in the US....

Cincinnati-based G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers delivers. And it has done so for the more than 40 years that it has distributed Pepsi products in Ohio and Kentucky. The company is one of the larger Pepsi bottlers in the US, shipping the leading PepsiCo brands, including Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Slice, SoBe, and Aquafina to beverage retailers....

Florida-based Gold Coast Beverages, considered the largest beer wholesaler in the state, also distributes a variety of wine and Zephyrhills bottled water in Miami, Pompano Beach, and Rockland Key. (Zephyrhills is a division of Nestlé Waters.) Among the many brands Gold Coast distributes are Bavaria, Beck's, Corona, Guinness, Heineken, Labatt, Pabst, and Shiner, Miller, and Coors....

innocent's products are as pure as its name suggests. The British beverage producer makes and distributes a line of all-natural fruit drinks; its products include smoothies, thickies (made from yogurt and fruit), juices, and fruit-enhanced water. It has recently added superfoods, which are smoothies that are high in natural vitamins....