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Type | Soft drink |
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Manufacturer | Big 8 Beverages |
Distributor | Sobeys |
Country of origin | Canada |
Introduced | 1930 |
Flavour | Cola |
Variants | Spring water, lemonade, limeade, orangeade, root beer, ginger ale |
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Big 8 Beverages [1] is a soft drinks company based in the town of Stellarton, near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada. Established in 1930 and owned by the Sobeys chain of supermarkets since 1986, [2] the company produces fizzy soda drinks of a wide range of flavours, and also bottles spring and distilled water.
The Big 8 brand name was created in the 1930s by Fenton and Day Beverages, [3] and is now owned by Sobeys. [4] Created in the 1930s by Fred Day and his brother-in-law George Fenton. They named their cola Big 8 after the eight-cent price for a bottle roughly a litre in size. Coca-Cola wanted to purchase Fenton and Day in 1946, but wouldn't pay what the owners thought the company was worth. Three months later 7-Up Maritimes offered the right price, founders Fenton and Day sold and retired. The Big 8 name stayed idle until Maritime Beverages, the 7-Up distributor for the Maritime provinces, gave the label and trademark to Sobeys free of charge in 1986.