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Pepsi-Cola is one of the drinks that trace its root back to the corner drugstore. In 1893, Caleb D. Bradham, a pharmacist of New Bern invented it.
Bradham poured a sample of his mixture into a beaker and gave it to his assistant to taste it. Then he saw his assistant’s face light up upon tasting it, Bradham knew he had created a winner.
Like many drugstores of its time, Bradham provided ‘soda’ mixes for his customers and friends. His favorite was ‘Brad’s Drink’.
The name ‘Brad’s Drink didn’t convey the nature of the beverage and he decided to rename it ‘Pepsi-Cola’ in 1898.
The word “Pepsi’ was probably a reference to the idea that his drink would aid digestion like pepsin, an enzyme found naturally in the body.
By 1900, Pepsi-Cola had become so popular, that Bradham started the Pepsi-Cola Company. At first, the Pepsi-Cola Company simply sold Pepsi-Cola syrup to drug stores in eastern North Carolina.
By 1905, demand for Pepsi Cola had increased so much that Bradham decided it was time to offer Pepsi-Cola for sale in bottles. To facilitate the sale in bottles Bradham issued the first of many franchise agreement. Soon the name of Pepsi-Cola was known throughout the southeastern.
By end of the first decade of 20th century, Bradham had organized a network of more than 250 bottles in 24 states.
Early History of Pepsi Cola
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In 1902, he launched the Pepsi-Cola Company in the back of his New Bern pharmacy room and applied to the U.S. Patent Office for a trademark. At first, The Pepsi-Cola Company simply sold Pepsi-Cola syrup to drug stores in eastern North Carolina. He mixed...
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Early History of Pepsi Cola
Bradham poured a sample of his mixture into a beaker and gave it to his assistant to taste it. Then he saw his assistant’s face light up upon tasting it, Bradham knew he had created a winner.
Like many drugstores of its time, Bradham provided ‘soda’ mixes for his customers and friends. His favorite was ‘Brad’s Drink’.
The name ‘Brad’s Drink didn’t convey the nature of the beverage and he decided to rename it ‘Pepsi-Cola’ in 1898.
The word “Pepsi’ was probably a reference to the idea that his drink would aid digestion like pepsin, an enzyme found naturally in the body.
By 1900, Pepsi-Cola had become so popular, that Bradham started the Pepsi-Cola Company. At first, the Pepsi-Cola Company simply sold Pepsi-Cola syrup to drug stores in eastern North Carolina.
By 1905, demand for Pepsi Cola had increased so much that Bradham decided it was time to offer Pepsi-Cola for sale in bottles. To facilitate the sale in bottles Bradham issued the first of many franchise agreement. Soon the name of Pepsi-Cola was known throughout the southeastern.
By end of the first decade of 20th century, Bradham had organized a network of more than 250 bottles in 24 states.
Early History of Pepsi Cola
- Caleb Bradham And Pepsi Cola Company
In 1902, he launched the Pepsi-Cola Company in the back of his New Bern pharmacy room and applied to the U.S. Patent Office for a trademark. At first, The Pepsi-Cola Company simply sold Pepsi-Cola syrup to drug stores in eastern North Carolina. He mixed...
- History Of Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew, the ultra sweet, odd-colored lemon lime drink, a caffeinated marketed by Pepsi, is today one of the fastest growing and most popular products in the carbonated soft drink category in the United States. The formula invented back in the 1940s...
- History Of Barq’s Root Beer
In 1898 Edward Charles Edmond Barq opened Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works and next two years he produced the product later known as Barq’s Root Beer. It remained a family owned business based in Biloxi, Mississippi, until the company was purchased by...
- History Of Sprite Coke
Sprite was introduced by Coca Cola in 1961. Before that Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company sold fruit flavored drinks under the name ‘Sprite’ during the 1950s and became the first bottler to market Sprite in 1961. Now it’s become world’s leading...
- History Of Soft Drink Fanta
Fanta is manufactured by Coca Cola for international markets. It is best known as orange soda, although it comes in grape, lemon, lime and other flavors. Fanta was born in the austerity of post-war Germany, when the Coca-Cola Company had to use sugar...