The American Bottling Company, formerly Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group (1999–2006), Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group (2006–2008), and Dr Pepper Snapple Bottling Group (2008), is the
bottling company of
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of that company.
It is analogous to the bottling companies
Pepsi Beverages Company
PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufa ...
and
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the bottlers of its main competitors.
History
By 1998
Dr Pepper/Seven Up, a subsidiary of
Cadbury Schweppes, was hindered by its bottling and distribution systems; owning no private bottling plants, it was dependent on independent bottlers or those controlled by
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta ...
or
Pepsi
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961.
History
Pepsi was ...
to bottle its beverages, and those two giant competitors also had better distribution systems and more influence with retail and fast-food chains.
In February 1998 Cadbury Schweppes and U.S. private equity firm
Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and pri ...
formed a joint venture named the American Bottling Company, initially consisting of the merger of two leading independent bottling groups in the Midwest: Beverage American and Select Beverages.
In 1999 the American Bottling Company was combined with the Dr Pepper Bottling Company;
the consolidated company, renamed Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group (DPSUBG),
[ was designed to give Dr Pepper/Seven Up greater control over the distribution of its brands.]Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink. It was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is now also sold in Euro ...
and Snapple
Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks which is owned by Keurig Dr Pepper and based in Plano, Texas, United States. The company (and brand), which was originally known as Unadulterated Food Products, was founded in 1972. The brand achieved som ...
.[
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 resulted in the bottling company being renamed Dr Pepper Snapple Bottling Group.
In 2008, the Dr Pepper Snapple Bottling Group merged with its own subsidiary, The American Bottling Company, and renamed itself The American Bottling Company.][
]
See also
* List of bottling companies
References
External links
The American Bottling Company
at ''Bloomberg.com
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Companies based in Plano, Texas
Carbonated drinks
Drink companies of the United States
Food and drink companies established in 2006
American soft drinks
Bottling companies
Keurig Dr Pepper
Food and drink companies based in Texas