Vita Cola some time, Vita Cola sponsored FC Hansa Rostock, a soccer club from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Vita Cola has since then surpassed Pepsi Cola and is still regaining market share in the former East Germany. In Thuringia, Vita Cola has the biggest market share of colas, even above Coca-Cola. That means that Thuringia is one of the few regions in the world where a regional cola brand is the market leader. Today there is only one other former East German cola brand in production: Club Cola. Natural mineral water, Sugar, Carbonic acid, Acidulants (E270, citric acid, phosphate), Dye E150 d, Natural aroma, Vitamin
Drink can Fraze (1913–1989) of Dayton, Ohio, United States, invented the similar integral rivet and pull-tab version (also known as "ring pull" in British English), which had a ring attached at the rivet for pulling, and which would come off completely to be discarded. He received US Patent No. 3,349,949 for his pull-top can design in 1963 and licensed his invention to Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing Company, the latter of which first introduced the design on Iron City Beer cans. The first soft drinks to be sold in all-aluminium cans were R.C. Cola and Diet-Rite Cola, both made by the Royal Crown