Cottee's is an Australian food and beverage brand founded in 1927. Cottee's make a variety of products including cordial, jams, marmalades and other spreads, toppings, jellies and puddings. The company is owned by

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with its drinks manufactured under licence by

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History

The company was founded in the early 20th century by dairy farmer Spencer Milton Cottee (ca.1864 – 8 June 1944) from Lismore. Cottee was a champion of the dairy industry and began processing and marketing the milk by-product

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. He diversified into processing

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into

Passiona Passiona is an Australian passionfruit-flavoured soft drink currently manufactured by Schweppes Australia and originally Cottee's. History Originally developed as a cordial by Lismore dairy farmer Spencer Cottee during the 1920s to avoid wast ...

soft drink. A factory was opened in Leichhardt in the 1930s. Passiona was also bottled in

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by Geo. Hall and Sons. Apart from Passiona, the most popular Cottee's carbonated soft drinks were Tango (orange), and Coola (lime), with other flavours including lemon, cola, and lemonade. 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). In 1965, Cottee's was acquired by the American company General Foods and, in 1984, by Cadbury Schweppes. Schweppes Australia was acquired by

in 2009.

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