Cott Beverages
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : BCB : COT |
| Industry | Beverage |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario, Tampa, FL, Canada, United States |
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Number of locations
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33 beverage manufacturing and fruit processing facilities, including 20 in the United States, five in Canada, six in the United Kingdom and one in Mexico, as well as one vertically-integrated global concentrate manufacturing facility in Columbus, GA. |
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Area served
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Worldwide (Except U.S.A.) |
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Key people
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Chairman: David T. Gibbons President and CEO: Jerry Fowden CFO: Jay Wells |
| Products | soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, teas and water |
| Services | Private label |
| Revenue | $2.25 Billion |
| $109.7 Million | |
| $47.8 Million | |
| Total assets | $1.6 Billion |
| Total equity | $622.9 Million |
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Number of employees
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3,960 |
| Subsidiaries | see below |
| Website | www.cott.com |
The Cott Corporation is a supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks distributing to the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Europe. In addition to producing private-label beverages for retailers, Cott also has portfolio of its own brands, including Cott, RC (excluding the United States, where it is part of Dr Pepper Snapple Group), Ben Shaws, Stars & Stripes, Vintage and Vess soft drinks, ready-to-drink teas, sparkling and flavoured waters, sports and energy drinks, juice drinks and smoothies. Newer Cott brands include Orient Emporium, GL-7, Red Rain Energy and After Shock Energy.
Cott Beverage Corporation was founded in 1923 by Solomon Cott, a Polish immigrant, and his son Harry, in Port Chester, New York. Harry Pencer, a clothier from Montreal, Canada, began to import Cott sodas into Quebec, Canada, in 1952. In 1955 Pencer acquired the Canadian rights to the Cott label and established Cott Beverages (Canada) Ltd., to bottle the Cott line of sodas. From 1976 to 1991, Cott expanded its distribution throughout Canada and back into the US and into Europe. During the 1960s and 1970s, labels for its products were printed with the slogan "It's Cott to be good". Vess Beverage assets and its division, Vess Specialty Packaging Company, was purchased in 1994. In 1969, the name was changed to Cott Beverages Ltd., and in 1991 to Cott Corporation.
From 1992 to 1996, Cott was headed by Heather Reisman, founder of Indigo Books & Music.
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