Carbonated Beverages Industry Competitors

Britvic gives thirst a swift kick. Britvic Plc (formerly Britannia Soft Drinks), manufactures and markets bottled juices, carbonated and still drinks, and bottled water internationally. Second only to The Coca-Cola Company in the UK, Britvic's brands include Britvic, J20, Robinsons, and Tango....

Cawy Bottling manufactures fruit-flavored soft drinks such as Jupiña, Materva, and Coco Solo. Its products are distributed throughout the US, Canada, Spain, and Central America. The company, originally established in Cuba in 1948, moved to the US in the 1960s as a result of the island's takeover by Fidel Castro....

If you buy a Coke or a Moxie in the upper half of New England, there's a good chance it was supplied by Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England. (Moxie is regional brand favored by New Englanders, especially those in Maine, since 1876, when it was sold as a patent medicine known as Moxie Nerve Food.) In addition to Moxie, the company distributes products made by The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestlé, and Campbell's....

Since 1929 Coca-Cola has been serving its legendary soft drink in Germany, its third-largest market after the US and Mexico. Coca-Cola GmbH, the German arm of The Coca-Cola Company, offers all the usual Coke products the rest of the world enjoys....

Cott is sweet on its customers. The company is a leading producer of store-brand carbonated beverages in Canada, the UK, and the US. In addition to soda, Cott Corporation makes bottled water, juices, ready-to-drink teas, and energy and sports drinks. The company produces, packages, and distributes more than 75 retailer-, licensed-, and Cott Corporation-owned brand soft-drink beverages for grocery, mass-merchandise, drugstore, and convenience store chain customers, as well as wholesalers. Cott operates 15 beverage production facilities in North America and six overseas....

Grapette International manufactures Grapette and Orangette soda; it also manufactures a variety of beverage flavors for private-label customers around the world. Grapette was first bottled in the 1940s, but the soda disappeared from US stores beginning in the late 1970s due to an acquisition of the brand by a rival beverage maker....

IZZE makes fruit fizzy. Its Natural Sparkling Fruit Juices division offers carbonated spring water and 100% fruit juices without refined sugar, caffeine, or preservatives. (IZZE pasteurizes its juices right in the bottle.) IZZE's more than a half dozen fizzy fruit flavors include apple, blackberry, pear, and pomegranate....

There's nothing average about Jones Soda. The company manufactures brightly colored beverages with wacky flavors like Fufu Berry and Blue Bubble Gum. Seasonal offerings include Turkey and Gravy for Thanksgiving and Chocolate Fudge for Valentine's Day....

Nichols slakes thirsts around the world. The company makes and sells Vimto fruit-flavored soft drinks across the globe and the Panda and Sunkist (licensed) brands of children's soft drinks to customers that include major retail, wholesale and cash-and-carry food and beverage operations in the UK....

Ice cold beverages are the stock and trade of this company. Doing business as Polar Beverages, Polar Corp. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fruit-flavored sodas, ginger ale, mixers, and spring water to customers in the Northeastern US. It markets beverages under its flagship brand, as well as Adirondack and Cape Cod Dry....

Wet Planet Beverages wants to give its thirsty customers a jolt -- a Jolt Cola. The company touts its flagship soda as an alternative to coffee that contains twice the caffeine as the big-name brands manufactured by Coca-Cola and Pepsi....

While the cola wars may leave the ground littered with empty Coke and Pepsi bottles, Big Red proves that niche soft drinks can still win over followers one gulp at a time. The company bottles and markets the Big Red strawberry-bubble-gum-flavored soft drink in about 30 states in the US....

Carolina Beverage makes and distributes cherry-flavored Cheerwine and Diet Cheerwine soft drinks, Blue Mist bottled water, and Savage Energy Drink. Despite its name, Cheerwine does not contain any alcohol, but is named for its red color. Carolina Beverage's products are available in the south and southeastern US -- primarily in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia....

Cool Mountain Beverages offers caffeine-free gourmet sodas in 20 US states and throughout Canada. US production is handled by the bottling operations of Dr Pepper Snapple Group. The company believes it can tap the fond memories of older soda drinkers while introducing GenXers to traditional flavors like Black Cherry and Honey Lemonade....

It's a snap decision about what doctor to choose. Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) is the bottler and distributor of Dr Pepper soda and Snapple drinks for North America. Serving Canada, Mexico, and the US, the company (formerly Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages) offers a large portfolio of non-alcoholic beverages including flavored, carbonated soft drinks and non-carbonated soft drinks, along with ready-to-drink teas, juices, juice drinks, and mixers....

Faygo Beverages believes in flavor. The beverage company offers an array of fruit sodas, ginger ale, root beer, and creme soda. It also offers sparkling water (flavors include orange and lemon lime), non-carbonated beverages (OHANA), energy drinks (RIP IT), and nonalcoholic mixers (club soda, tonic water), but it is best known for its "pop." The wide range of Faygo's pop flavors include Creme Soda, Dr....

Soft-drink lovers who pledge their allegiance to Shasta or Faygo salute National Beverage. The company offers up colas and flavored sodas (Faygo, Shasta -- each of which come in more than 50 flavors), spring and flavored waters (LaCroix, Mt. Shasta), juice and juice-based drinks (Everfresh, Mr....

The PepsiCo challenge (to keep up with archrival The Coca-Cola Company) never ends for the world's #2 carbonated soft-drink maker. Its soft drinks include Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Slice. Cola is not the company's only beverage: Pepsi sells Tropicana orange juice brands, Gatorade sports drink, and Aquafina water....

Everybody needs a Reed's. The company makes all natural soft drinks such as Extra Ginger Brew, Raspberry Ginger Brew, and Virgil's Root Beer, as well as ginger candy, baking bits, and ginger-flavored ice cream. Reed's brews its drinks from roots, herbs, spices, and fruits in a manner similar to how beer is brewed from malt and hops (without alcohol, though -- carbonation is added separately)....

Coke is it -- "it" being the world's #1 soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Its other brands include Barq's, Minute Maid, POWERade, and Dasani water....