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Schweppes Australia is a licensed manufacturer and distributor of brands such as Pepsi, Sunkist, Mountain Dew, and Gatorade. They also produce Schweppes range of soft drinks, as well as many other Australian brands, including Solo , Passiona , Cottee's Cordial , Spring Valley Beverages, Pop Tops and Cool Ridge , and Frantelle spring water.
Saxbys Soft Drinks - Australia's oldest family owned and operated soft drink company, based in Taree est. 1864; Solo – lemon-flavoured drink, owned by Schweppes Australia. Schweppes – a range of mineral water/fruit juice drinks developed in Australia, with flavours that include orange-mango, and lemon, lime and orange.
Solo was first launched by Tarax in 1968, then Cadbury-Schweppes took over in 1973. In April 2009, Asahi Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd acquired Cadbury-Schweppes Australia and in turn Solo. [4] [5] Asahi is a foreign owned, private company which is owned by Asahi Group Holdings Limited, a Japanese brewery and soft drink company. [5]
In 1926, a factory was set up in Sydney, and in 1927 the drink was marketed to the public. [4] Newspaper reports from the 1930s mention Australians taking the drink with them overseas to Canada and Jerusalem. In 1934, Cottees Passiona Ltd reported a gross profit of £609. [citation needed]
In Australia and New Zealand, "soft drink" ... the Schweppes company commercialized Malvern Water at the ... featured a wide range of drinks on their price list in ...
The brand's popularity reached its zenith in the 1960s. Cottee's Coola flavour is the most popular cordial in Australia (Coola, Australia's Flavourite Cordial). [4] In 1965, Cottee's was acquired by the American company General Foods and, in 1984, by Cadbury Schweppes. [5] Schweppes Australia was acquired by Asahi Breweries in 2009.
Schweppes (/ ʃ w ɛ p s / SHWEPS, [1] [2] [3] German:) is a soft drink brand founded in the Republic of Geneva in 1783 by Johann Jacob Schweppe; it is now made, bottled, and distributed worldwide by multiple international conglomerates, depending on licensing and region, that manufacture and sell soft drinks. Schweppes was one of the earliest ...
Lemon-lime drink Sprite. A lemon-lime soft drink or lemon-lime soda (also known as lemonade in the United Kingdom, Australia [1] and New Zealand and as cider in Japan [citation needed] and South Korea [2]) is a carbonated soft drink with lemon and lime flavoring.