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Fritz-kola (stylized as fritz-kola) is a soft drink made in north Germany and shipped to many nations in the European Union. It has a relatively high caffeine content and is sold in glass bottles with labels which were originally black and white, using the faces of the two founders in the logo.

Fritz-Kola

Type	Cola
Country of origin	Hamburg, Germany
Introduced	2003; 19 years ago (2003)
Website	www.fritz-kola.de/en/

History

Two students from Hamburg, Lorenz Hampl and Mirco Wiegert, started selling Fritz-kola in 2003.[1][2][3] They had a brewery help them develop a cola recipe, choosing to use less sugar and more caffeine (25mg of caffeine per 100ml[1]) than Coke or Pepsi, and adding lemon flavour.[2] They polled people outside a shopping centre to choose the company name. To save money, they used black and white labels and a photoshopped version of pictures of their heads as a logo; they sold the first crates to bars on a returnable basis, and did not establish an office for three years.[2]

Hampl left the business in 2016. As of August 2020^[update], Wiegert heads the company and owns two-thirds of it. The company employs 280 people. Five bottling plants produce the cola, which is sold in a number of European countries; in 2019 its 330ml bottles outsold all brands except Coke, and its other major markets are the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, and Austria.[2] Sales in 2015 were €7.4 million.[4]

Varieties

This section relies excessively on references to primary sources. (September 2021)

Through the years Fritz-kola has offered many variants of its cola as well as different kinds of soft drinks, including:

• Fritz-kola:[5]
  • Fritz-kola[6]
  • Fritz-kola kola-coffee-lemonade[7]
  • Fritz-kola sugarfree[8]
• Fritz-limo:[9]
  • Fritz-limo orangeade[10]
  • Fritz-limo melon[11]
  • Fritz-limo lemonade[12]
  • Fritz-limo apple, cherry and elderberry[13]
• mischmasch kola-orange-lemonade[14]
• Fritz-spritz:[15]
  • Fritz-spritz organic cloudy sparkling apple[16]
  • Fritz-spritz organic sparkling grape[17]
  • Fritz-spritz organic sparkling rhubarb[18]
• fritz-mate[19]

See also

• Craft soda

References

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