The company that popularized coffee pods now owns a piece of Margaritaville.
The merger of Dr Pepper Snapple and Keurig Green Mountain, announced Monday, will create a new giant in the food and beverage industry—but there’s a lot more to the deal than the marquee brands that spring to mind when you hear the company names.
Dr Pepper Snapple has extensive holdings of smaller, but still very familiar brands, including the Margaritaville mixers. (Jimmy Buffett still owns the rights to the name itself and other Margaritaville holdings.) Other properties include a popular root beer and an apple juice/applesauce manufacturer.
Here’s a deeper look at some of the brands the new combined company will control:
7 Up (United States only)
A&W Root Beer
Big Red
Cactus Cooler
Canada Dry (North America)
Clamato
Crush
Dejà Blue Water
Diet Rite
Dr Pepper
Hawaiian Punch
Hires Root Beer
IBC Root Beer
Margaritaville
Mistic
Mott’s
Mr & Mrs T
Nantucket Nectars
Nehi
Orangina (North America only)
Peñafiel
RC Cola (North America only)
ReaLemon
ReaLime
Rose’s
Schweppes
Snapple
Squirt
Stewart’s Fountain Classics
Sun Drop
Sunkist (manufactured under license)
Tahitian Treat
Venom Energy
Vernors
Yoo-hoo