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:
“Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition and cooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)
“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)
“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.”
—T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)