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mountain dew was created as a whisky mixer.




 

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mountain dew was named after a slang term for moonshine

 

 

 

 

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creation

 

mountain dew was created by the Hartman brothers

 

 

 

 

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pepsi

 

 

pepsi makes mountain dew and was started in 1897

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pepsi

 

 

in WWI there were 250 bottel companys in the chain

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pepsi

 

the founder Bradham left and it was finaly bought by the loft candy company

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pepsi

 

 

in 1939 pepsi did the first radio jingle

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pepsi

 

 

1941 Loft merged with pepsi and became the pepsi cola company

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pepsi

 

 

they later changed the name to pepsico.inc when it merged with frito lay in 1965.

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pepsi

 

from 1960 to 1990 pepsi acquierd many drinks such as mountain dew in 1964 and slice in the same year,mug rootbeer was acquired in 1986 and all sport sports beverage in 1991.

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pepsi

 

in 1972 they started importing a russian vodka know as stolichnaya into the united states and became the first western company allowed to sell in russia.

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pepsi

 

 

in the 1970's and 1980's pepsi branched out and bought fast food chains pizza hut in 1977 taco bell in 1978 and KFC in 1986.

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pepsi

 

in 1997 pepsi got rid of the fast food in a spinoff company called tricon global resturants

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pepsi

 

in 1998 pepsi acquired tropicana products for $3.3 million

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pepsi

 

pepsi's main strategy is to invest in big oppertunities. in 1997 this happened when the company expaned its distribution installing over 150,000 vending machines.

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pepsi

 

in 1997 they got rid of the resturants so they could focus on what they do best

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current flavors

 

mountain dew, regular flavor

caffeine free, no caffeine regular flavor

diet, no sugar regular flavor

caffeine free diet, no caffeine or sugar regular flavor

code red, cherry flavor

diet code red, no sugar or calories cherry flavor

live wire, orange flavor

baja blast, exclusive drink to taco bell tropic lime flavor

supernova, strawberry melon flavor

 

 

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current flavors continued

 

voltage, raspberry citrus flavor

throwback, regular flavor but with natural surgar

white out, smooth citrus flavor

kickstart orange citrus, orange citrus flavor its like coffee

kickstart fruit punch, fruit flavor its like coffee

kickstart black cherry, black cherry flavor

 

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discontinued flavors

 

mountain dew red, fruit flavor

diet red, no calorie fruit flavor

pitch black, grape flavor

pitch black II, sour grape flavor

game fuel halo 3, citrus cherry flavor

revolution, wild berry fruit flavor

game fuel WOW horde red, citrus cherry flavor

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discontinued flavors

 

game fuel WOW alliance blue, wild fruit punch flavor

ultra violet, mixed berry flavor

cherry fusion, cherry flavor

distortion, lime flavor

typhoon, strawberry pineapple flavor

flare, berry citrus flavor

crave, sweet and sour apple flavor

diet supernova, strawberry melon flavor

game fuel MW3, citrus cherry

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discontinued flavors

 

game fuel MW3, tropical flavor

dark berry, mixed berry flavor

game fuel halo 4, cherry citrus flavor

game fuel DR3, cherry citrus flavor

game fuel ryse, berry flavor

 

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Dewmocracy

 

in 2007 mountain dew introduced a public flavor choosing which allowed the public to choose the next mtn dew flavor.

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dewmocracy

 

three flavors were available for testing voltage, revolution, and supernova

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dewmocracy

 

it is cited as one of the earliest and longest runnning examples crowdsourcing. 

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dewmocracy

 

voting was done in online games.

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dewmocracy

 

the event ended on august 17 2008

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dewmocracy

 

the winning flavor was voltage and was released on december 29 2008

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dewmocracy 2

 

started in july 2009 

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dewmocracy 2

 

the voting was more open with facebook twitter and youtube being added to the votes

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dewmocracy 2

 

the three flavors that were available were distortion, white out, and typhoon

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dewmocracy 2

 

voting was available from april 19 2010 until june 14

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dewmocracy 2

 

 white out was the winning flavor

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 game fuel

 

mountain dew used game fuel to market the drink to gamers 

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game fuel

 

shortly after the made a new flavor called game fuel for xbox 360's Halo 3.

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game fuel

 

after 12 weeks the flavor was discontinued

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game fuel

 

two years later they released two flavors for the MMORPG world of warcraft

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game fuel

 

the WOW flavors were discontinued after 12 weeks

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game fuel

 

game fuel returened again for modern warfare 3 on august 24 2011

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game fuel

 

modern warfare's game fuel was discontinued after 12 weeks

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game fuel

 

game fuel returned again in 2012 for Halo 4

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game fuel

 

it also returned in 2013 for the xbox one and its games dead rising 3, forza 5, and ryse son of rome.

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game fuel

 

the original flavor has returned to shelves but not promoting any game. it is unclear if mountain dew has made it a permanate addition.

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mtn dew tour

 

mtn dew has been sponsoring sports since the late 1990's

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fanDEWmonium

 

similar to dewmocracy but with eight diet flavors insted of three regular flavors

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fanDEWmonium

 

five of the flavors were diet variations  of the dewmocracy flavors

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fanDEWmonium

 

diet supernova won with 55% of the votes but was removed from shelves due to poor sales

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back by popular DEWmand

 

mountain dew announced that they would be re relaseing old favorites 

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back by popular DEWmand

 

pitch black and supernova returned to all stores while typhoon came back in 2 liter bottles at walmart only

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"Mountain Dew." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 May 2014. Web. 16 May 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew>.
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Upton, Chad. "Mountain Dew was Invented as Whiskey Mix." Broken Secrets. N.p., 12 Aug. 2013. Web. 6 May 2014. <http://brokensecrets.com/2013/08/12/mountain-dew-was-invented-as-whiskey-mix/>.
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"PepsiCo, Inc." Company Profiles for Students. Ed. Donna Craft and Amanda Quick. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 1013-1018.Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 2 June 2014.
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