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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 1986 and owned by the Sobeys chain of supermarkets,[2] which is also headquartered in Stellarton, the company produces fizzy soda drinks of a wide range of flavours, and also bottles mineral water.

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Big 8 Cola

Type	Soft drink
Manufacturer	Big 8 Beverages
Distributor	Sobeys
Country of origin	Canada
Introduced	1930; 92 years ago (1930)
Flavour	Cola
Variants	Spring water, lemonade, limeade, orangeade, root beer, ginger ale
Website	big8beverages.ca

History

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, under which 7-Up is sold, gave the label to Sobeys free of charge in 1986.

Soft drink flavours

• Cola
• Diet Cola
• Diet Cola Caffeine-Free
• Big Up
• Diet Big Up
• Root Beer
• Spruce Beer
• Ginger Ale
• Diet Ginger Ale
• Golden Ginger Ale
• Cranberry Ginger Ale
• Blackberry Ginger Ale
• Cranberry/Raspberry
• Sparkling Lemonade
• Diet Sparkling Lemonade
• Lime
• Grape
• Cream Soda
• Mountain Burst
• Orange
• Diet Orange
• Pineapple
• Vanilla Cola
• Big 8 Dr Zip (Similar to Dr Pepper)

Bottled water

• Soda Water
• Sparkling Lemon-Lime Water
• Sparkling Water
• Tonic Water
• Spring Water

References

External links

• Official website

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