Competition
Many of the brands available from the three largest soda producers, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, are intended as direct, equivalent competitors. The following chart lists these competitors by type or flavor of drink.
| Flavor/type | PepsiCo | The Coca-Cola Company | Dr Pepper Snapple Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cola | Pepsi | Coca-Cola | RC Cola |
| Diet Cola | Diet Pepsi / Pepsi Light Pepsi ONE Pepsi Max Pepsi Next |
Diet Coke / Coca-Cola Light Tab Coca-Cola Zero |
Diet Rite Diet RC |
| Cherry-flavored cola | Pepsi Wild Cherry | Coca-Cola Cherry | Cherry RC |
| "Pepper"-style | Dr Slice | Mr. Pibb / Pibb Xtra | Dr Pepper |
| Orange | Mirinda Tropicana Twister Tango Slice |
Fanta Minute Maid |
Crush Sunkist |
| Lemon-lime | Teem Sierra Mist 7 Up (in countries other than US) |
Sprite Lemon & Paeroa |
7 Up |
| Other citrus flavors | Mountain Dew Kas Izze |
Mello Yello Vault Fresca Lift Lilt |
Sun Drop Squirt |
| Ginger ale | Patio | Seagram's Ginger Ale | Canada Dry Schweppes Vernors |
| Root beer | Mug Root Beer | Barq's Ramblin' Root Beer (until 1995) |
A&W Root Beer Stewart's Rootbeer Hires Root Beer |
| Cream soda | Mug Cream Soda | Barq's Red Creme Soda | A&W Cream Soda |
| Juices | Tropicana Dole |
Minute Maid Fruitopia Simply Orange |
Mott's Nantucket Nectars Snapple |
| Iced tea | Lipton Brisk |
Nestea Gold Peak Tea |
Snapple |
| Sports drinks | Gatorade Propel |
Powerade Aquarius Vitamin Water |
All Sport |
| Energy drinks | AMP | Full Throttle NOS Relentless Monster |
Venom |
Read more about this topic: Cola Wars
Famous quotes containing the word competition:
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)
“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)