History of Minute Maid®

It was started during World War II, where The National Research Corporation (NRC), based in Boston, Massachusetts, was creating dehydrated medical supplies for use during World War II. The U.S. Army decided to partner with them to create orange juice in a dehydrated form.

The U.S. Army wanted to extend this technological advance into the area of providing its troops nutritious food, especially orange juice. Previous attempts to concentrate orange juice through boiling the water out of the juice failed because the boiling process destroyed the flavor.

In 1945 National Research Corporation organized Florida Foods Corporation to build a production plant in Plymouth Florida. The plan was to fulfill contract with army. As the war ended, Florida Foods Corp. discovered that there was a domestic demand for great tasting orange juice in the months when fresh oranges simply weren’t available. Therefore, the company diverted its focus to consumer market. They explored the possibility of marketing an “intermediate step” in the production process – frozen orange juice concentrate. Florida Foods, renamed Vacuum Foods Corporation, ships the first frozen concentrated orange juice product in the U.S., which is named Minute Maid® and it was success.

A few years later Florida Foods Corporations was renamed as The Minute Maid Company. The name Minute Maid® was originally created by a Boston marketing firm back in 1946, implying the convenience and ease of preparation of this delicious orange juice

By 1960, Minute Maid had become a household name. This popularity drew the attention of yet another household name and later that year The Coca-Cola Company acquired Minute Maid, which served as the Company’s first foray outside the soft drinks category.

The Coca-Cola Company acquired Minute Maid through a stock swap. The Coca-Cola Company then introduced ready to drinks chilled juice in 1973 and in 1996 ‘Minute Maid Premium, 100% Pure Squeezed Juice. 

History of Minute Maid®

Sprite Coke in history

Sprite was developed Fanta Klare Zitrone in West Germany in 1959. It is believed that sprite was manufactured as Coca Cola’s response to the popularity of 7UP owned by PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple group.

Sprite, a lemon-line beverage was introduced by Coca Cola on February 1st, 1961. Now it’s become world’s leading flavored soft-drinks in category of lemon. It is sold more than in 190 countries worldwide and believed to be ranked no 3 of the most consumed soda in the world as of 2019.

The target consumer is the young people and they enjoy because it tasted crisp and clean. It’s really quenching the thirst.

In the 1990’s, Sprite launched the ‘Jooky’ ad campaign, which poked fun at other soft drinks and their lack of authenticity.

By 2008, Sprite becomes the third Company product to sell more than 2 billion cases annually, joining Coca‑Cola and Diet Coke/Coca‑Cola light.
Sprite Coke in history

History of beverage: Fanta

Fanta is a global brand manufactured by Coca Cola Company for international markets. It is best known as orange soda, although it comes in grape, lemon, lime and other flavors. There are over 90 flavors worldwide, but most of them are only available in certain countries.

Fanta was born in the austerity of post-war Germany, when the Coca-Cola company had to use sugar beet rather than cane to sweeten it, and the name is based on ‘Fantasie’. The name was chosen in collaboration with Coca Cola HQ in the US, who weren't impressed by the product and thought it needed an exciting word to sell it.

In the period leading up to World War II, between 1930 and 1936, Coca-Cola set up a division of the company in Germany, and continued that venture during the war.

Coca-Cola was growing rapidly in Germany and the rest of Europe in the pre-war years. Between 1933-39 the numbers of crates of Coke sold in Nazi Germany rose from about 100,000 to 4.5 million per year, and 50 factories were built to meet demand.

It recreated its image as a German company and allowed the Germans to produce all but two, secret, Coca-Cola ingredients in their own factories.

After war broke out in 1939 it became increasingly difficult to transport the syrups needed to make Coke to the German factories due to various embargoes on imports into the Nazi Reich.

With supplies of syrup rapidly diminishing and ceasing altogether by 1941, the head of German operations, Max Keith, looked for an alternative way of driving production and making use of his bottling lines.

In 1941 Max Keith, developed Fanta orange soda using orange flavoring and all the German-made Coke ingredients.

The recipe included scraps and leftovers from various industrial processes. Limited to ingredients available under conditions of rationing, Keith devised a soft drink based on the by-products of industrial cheese and cider production. Whey was used from milk factories and scraps of various fruits, mainly apples, from the fruit pressing factories were added with various other ingredients to make the drink they called Fanta.

The recipe proved successful, with over 3 million cases produced in 1943. The name Fanta itself was decided upon after a brief brainstorming session, when salesman Joe Knipp responded to Keith's request to 'use their imagination' ('Fantasie' in German) by immediately replying 'Fanta!'

Despite the increasing devastation caused by Allied bombing, for most the war the German Coke company maintained profitable annual sales figures of about sixty million bottles.

In 1955, Fanta Orange as the first new product is introduced in Naples, Italy, the first new product to be distributed by the Company. The Fanta line of flavored beverages comes to the United States in 1960. Fanta products, which come in a variety of fruit flavors such as orange and grape, had been sold by Coke bottlers in other countries for many years.

Fanta in the early 1970s, were attacked because they had artificial color. Competitors used this to demean the product even though the coloring was quite safe. The company replaced the artificial coloring with natural coloring, but the impact on product sales was severe for about five years before began to grow again.
History of beverage: Fanta