Big 8 Beverages

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Big 8 Beverages
Big 8 Logo.png
Type Soft drink
ManufacturerBig 8 Beverages
Distributor Sobeys
Country of origin  Canada
Introduced1930;95 years ago (1930)
Flavour Cola
VariantsSpring water, lemonade, limeade, orangeade, root beer, ginger ale
Website big8beverages.ca   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Big 8 Beverages [1] is a soft drinks company based in the town of Stellarton, near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada. Established in 1930 and owned by the Sobeys chain of supermarkets since 1986, [2] the company produces fizzy soda drinks of a wide range of flavours, and also bottles spring and distilled water.

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History

The Big 8 brand name was created in the 1930s by Fenton and Day Beverages, [3] and is now owned by Sobeys. [4] Created in the 1930s by Fred Day and his brother-in-law George Fenton. They named their cola Big 8 after the eight-cent price for a bottle roughly a litre in size. Coca-Cola wanted to purchase Fenton and Day in 1946, but wouldn't pay what the owners thought the company was worth. Three months later 7-Up Maritimes offered the right price, founders Fenton and Day sold and retired. The Big 8 name stayed idle until Maritime Beverages, the 7-Up distributor for the Maritime provinces, gave the label and trademark to Sobeys free of charge in 1986.

Soft drink flavours

Bottled water

References

  1. ↑ Katsriku, George. "Big 8 Beverages | Providing high quality water and soft drinks to our customers for over 25 years". big8beverages.ca. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  2. ↑ "Export Spotlight: Big 8 Beverages Ltd. | Nova Scotia Business Inc". www.novascotiabusiness.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  3. ↑ The Halifax Herald 1989
  4. ↑ "Big8 - Corporate Structure". Sobeys Inc. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008.
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