Big Red (soft drink) by mixing orange and lemon oils with the traditional vanilla used in other cream sodas. Big Red is produced and distributed by various independent soft drink bottlers including Keurig Dr Pepper, CCE, and Pepsi Bottling Group under license from Big Red, Inc., based in Austin, Texas. Big Red was the sixth-highest selling soft drink company in the United States from 2002–2004, after Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper/7Up, Cott and National Beverage Company. As a preeminent red creme soda in the South, it is a staple of many Juneteenth celebrations. In 2007 Big Red Ltd. was purchased by Gary Smith, with backing
Asia (soft drink brand) Asia (soft drink brand) Asia is a brand of Chinese soft drink that are produced by Chinese civilian-run enterprise Xiangxue Pharmaceutical via a subsidiary Xiangxue–Asian Beverage. However, the brand was still owned by Guangzhou Municipal People's Government (via GLIG). Asia's sarsaparilla was considered as a collective memory of the citizen of Guangzhou. The "Asia" brand soft drinks were started to produce in Guangzhou in 1946 and survived after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. However, the brand and the factory, were nationalized. Along with its sister brand "Pearl", they also exported to the nearby British colony