The A.J. Canfield Company produces and bottles soda beverages including Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge, primarily in the Chicago area and was founded in 1924. Production for the midwestern United States is handled by the American Bottling Company, a subsidiary of Dr Pepper Snapple Group and distribution by Kehe Foods of Chicago.
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History
The company was started in 1924, at 67th Street and South Chicago Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, by A. J. Canfield, a former railroad worker.
In 1995, the A.J. Canfield Company was sold to Select Beverages for an undisclosed sum. Its largest plant, on the south side of Chicago at East 89th Place, was closed in December 1995.
In 1998, Select Beverages was acquired by the American Bottling Company, a joint venture company owned by Cadbury Schweppes and the Carlyle Group, now the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
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Products
- Canfield's 50/50 is a grapefruit- and lime-flavored soft drink marketed by the Canfield's company. In the late 1980s-early 1990s the 50/50 soft drink brand was bottled at Laurel Packaging, Inc. (now Pepsi Bottling Group), Johnstown, PA, and was distributed by the Will G. Keck Corporation (Kecksburg, PA) and also by D & M Management, Inc. (Davidsville, PA), an independent beverage distribution firm, in the West Central Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC, and the Northern Virginia areas.
- Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge, since 1972
- Canfield's Dry, a brand of ginger ale
- Grandpa Graf's, a brand of root beer
- Green River
References
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