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Schweppes (/ʃwɛps/SHWEPS,[1][2][3]German:[ʃvɛps]) is a beverage brand that originated in the Republic of Geneva; it is made, bottled and distributed worldwide by multiple international conglomerates, depending on licensing and region, that manufacture and sell soft drinks. Schweppes was one of the earliest forms of a soft drink, originally being regular soda water created in 1783.[4] Today, various drinks other than soda water bear the Schweppes brand name, including various types of lemonade and ginger ales.
An 1883 advertisement for Schweppe's Mineral-Waters
In the late 18th century, German-Genevan scientist Johann Jacob Schweppe developed a process to manufacture bottled carbonatedmineral water based on the discoveries of English chemist Joseph Priestley.[5] Schweppe founded the Schweppes Company in Geneva in 1783 to sell carbonated water.[6] In 1792, he moved to London to develop the business there. Schweppes had offices in Bristol and were selling carbonated Hotwells water in 1820.[7] In 1843, Schweppes commercialised Malvern Water at the Holywell Spring in the Malvern Hills, which was to become a favourite of the British Royal Family until parent company Coca-Cola closed the historic plant in 2010 to local outcry.[8]
In 1969, the Schweppes Company merged with Cadbury to become Cadbury Schweppes. After acquiring many other brands in the ensuing years, the company was split in 2008, with its US beverage unit becoming Keurig Dr Pepper and separated from its global confectionery business (now part of Mondelez International).[9] Keurig Dr Pepper is the current owner of the Schweppes trademark in Canada and United States.
The Coca-Cola Company owns the Schweppes brand in several territories, including 21 European countries. In a further 22 European countries, the brand is owned by Schweppes International Limited (a subsidiary of Suntory).[10]
In China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Swire's subsidiary Swire Coca-Cola produces Schweppes branded beverages.[11]
During the 1920s and 1930s, the artist William Barribal created a range of posters for Schweppes.[16] In 1945, the advertising agency S.T.Garland Advertising Service Ltd., London coined the word "Schweppervescence",[citation needed] which was first used the following year.[17] Thereafter it was used extensively in advertisements produced by Garlands, who sold copyright of this word to the Schweppes Company for £150 five years later when they relinquished the account.
An ad campaign in the 1950s and 1960s featured a real-life veteran British naval officer named Commander Whitehead, who described the product's bubbly flavour (effervescence) as evanescence.[citation needed] Comedian Benny Hill also appeared in a series of Schweppes TV commercials in the 1960s.
Another campaign in the 1950s and 1960s, "Schweppeshire", was written by Stephen Potter, the inventor of gamesmanship.[18]
Another campaign, voiced by British actor William Franklyn, made use of onomatopoeia in their commercials: "Schhh… You know who." after the sound of the gas escaping as one opens the bottle.[19][20]
References
^"Schweppes Ginger Beer advertisement". The New Yorker. 25 March 1950. p. 115. (rhymes with peps)
^Wells, J. C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edn, Harlow, UK: Longman
^Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, et al. (2011). Cambridge Pronouncing Dictionary, 18th edn, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
^ ab"Schweppes Holdings Limited". Royalwarrant.org. Retrieved 13 October 2021. the world's first ever soft drink, Schweppes soda water [..] the official sponsor of Prince Albert's Great Exhibition in 1851
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