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5 unusual facts about Schweppes


Hooper baronets

It was created on 11 July 1962 for Frederic Hooper, Managing Director of the Schweppes Group of Companies and adviser on Recruiting to the Minister of Defence.

Johnny Woodward

He continued to play football throughout the 1960s and regularly turned out for the Ex–Spurs XI while employed by Schweppes and then the British Oxygen Company.

Lucketts Travel

The company’s haulage business continued to grow in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with Ready Mix Concrete and Schweppes major clients.

Pitkeathly Wells

Schweppes took over the springs in 1910 and bottled the water in a plant employing thirty people.

Rosalie Gascoigne

Some of her other best-known works use faded, once-bright drinks crates; thinly-sliced yellow Schweppes boxes; ragged domestic items such as torn floral lino and patchy enamelware; vernacular building materials such as galvanised tin, corrugated iron and masonite; and fibrous, rosy cable reel ends.


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Economy of Birmingham

Famous brands from the "city of a thousand trades" include Bird's Custard, Typhoo Tea, the Birmingham Wire Gauge, Brylcreem, Chad Valley Toys, BSA, Bakelite, Cadburys chocolate, HP Sauce, Epsc and the MG Rover Group; although no Rover cars are set to be produced in the future, with Nanjing Automobile Group to focus on the MG cars.

Food and drink in Birmingham

Famous food brands that originated in Birmingham include Typhoo tea, Bird's Custard, Blue Bird Toffee, Bournville cocoa, Cadbury chocolate and HP Sauce.

Sinebrychoff

Sinebrychoff owns the license for manufacturing The Coca-Cola Company's Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Bonaqua and Powerade brands in Finland, as well as the license for manufacturing Schweppes and Dr Pepper.

Spendrups

Among the brands that it manufactures under license include Heineken, Schweppes, Pago, El Coto, Gallo, Bergstrands Kafferosteri (coffee roastery) .


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