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W.W. Clements, former CEO and president of the Dr Pepper/7-Up Company, described the taste of Dr Pepper as one-of-a-kind, saying, "I've always maintained you cannot tell anyone what Dr Pepper tastes like because it's so different. It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a ...
Completed in 1906, the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, located at 300 South Fifth Street in downtown Waco, Texas, was the first building to be built specifically to bottle Dr Pepper and Dr Pepper was bottled there until the 1960s. The building now houses the Dr Pepper Museum, which opened to the public in 1991. The museum has three ...
Doctor Charles Taylor Pepper (December 2, 1830 – May 28, 1903) was an American physician and surgeon, who is often cited as the namesake for the soft drink brand Dr Pepper. Many stories on the origins of the drink's name exist, of which the Dr Pepper Museum has been unable to confirm or authenticate which one may be the true historical record.
It’s a long way from the company’s origins. Dr Pepper got its start in 1885, one year before John Stith Pemberton developed Coca-Cola. Charles Alderton, the pharmacist who created it, wanted ...
Legally, Dr Pepper Snapple Group was the surviving company; it remained publicly traded and changed its name to Keurig Dr Pepper. [80] This created the third largest beverage company in North America. [81] [82] On July 10, shares in Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. [83] Its stock switched to NASDAQ in 2020. [84]
The full ownership allowed the beverage company to established its own bottling and distribution network for its U.S. soft drink brands, which included Dr Pepper and Snapple. [ 9 ] [ 7 ] The Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group and the other beverage operations of Cadbury Schweppes were spun off in 2008 to form Dr Pepper Snapple Group , which ...
The company itself went on to change its name from Nehi, Inc. to Royal Crown Cola Company in 1951. In the 1950s, Royal Crown Cola and Moon Pies were a popular "working man's lunch" in the American South. [8] In 1954, Royal Crown was the first company to sell soft drinks in a can, and later the first company to sell soft drinks in an aluminum ...
7 Up Bottling Company building in Portland, Oregon (1976) 7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his St. Louis–based company The Howdy Corporation in 1920. [1] Grigg came up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929, and the product was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.