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Brands and products within the Canadian soft drinks industry are perhaps not as widely known outside Canada as wine and beer. The industry serves mostly the Canadian market with only several firms turning to the export market. The soft drinks industry produces a great variety of non-alcoholic beverages such as colas, ginger ales, iced tea, iced coffee, soda waters, tonic waters as well as fruit juices, fruit drinks, spots drinks and energy drinks. Generally, soft drinks are the ones that contain more than one percent of flavours.

Nowadays soft drinks industries in many developed, including Canada, are going through a though period. Trend of soft drinks consumption are changing dramatically. For example, due the desire of people to maintain a healthy life style, the consumption of soft drinks is declining, while the consumption of bottled water is steadily increasing. Carbonated soft drinks are becoming less and less popular. Due to these changes manufacturers have to seek new solution and come up with new ways to capitalize the market. They have to offer their consumers much more than mere satiation of thirst. Instead, they offer extra energy, essential vitamins and much more. In order to stay on the market, the producers have to come up with more and more new products with the assortment of flavours, forms, functions and prices.

Despite all those changes within the industry one type of soft drink seems to remain as beloved as ever. It is Canada Dry ginger ale. The formula of this drink was created by John J. McLaughlin in 1904 at his carbonated water plant in Toronto. At the time most ginger ales were dark in colour, had a very sweet taste and a consistence of syrup. McLaughlin was trying to create something lighter and in the end he came up with the formula for Canada Dry ginger ale. It took only three years for the drink to gain its enormous popularity. In 1919 McLaughlin started to ship it to New York. The drink became so popular that the second plant was opened there shortly after. In the 1930s Canada Dry began to expand worldwide with equal success and it is still at large.

All in all, despite major and minor changes on the market, soft drinks industry in Canada fights its battle well. Established import and raw materials and Canada’s own water make sure that consumers are supplied with the widest range of products possible.

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