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Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. [1]
Sunkist was first licensed by Sunkist Growers to the General Cinema Corporation, 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 Fanta).
Under the leadership of George Newell Armsby, in 1916, CFCA added Alaska Packers Association, Central California Canneries, two canners, and Griffin & Skelley, a food brokerage house, incorporating itself as California Packing Corporation, or Calpak, and began selling its products under the Del Monte and Sunkist brands.
Fanta (/ ˈ f æ n t ə /) is an American-owned brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks created by Coca-Cola Deutschland under the leadership of German businessman Max Keith.
Sunkist may refer to: Sunkist (soft drink), a brand of carbonated soft drink made under license from Sunkist Growers, Inc. Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, a citrus growers cooperative; Sunkist Kids, an American wrestling club; Sunkist the Perfect Dog, a character in the web series Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware
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. [2]
By 1916, the company was battling Sunkist as both of them had nationally recognized products and Limoneira refused to exclusively brand their oranges as "Sunkist" but later reluctantly agreed. By the 1920s, the company's acreage under cultivation had quadrupled in less than 30 years and numerous building and expansion projects were underway.
The Packing House opened on May 31, 2014, and is located in a renovated 1919 [2] former Sunkist citrus packing house built in Spanish Colonial Revival style. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is one of the few remaining packing houses in Orange County, and the only one in Anaheim. [ 5 ]