The announcement escalates a remarkable and often bizarre corporate battle for control of China's largest beverage maker.

Its name was soon changed to 7 Up; all American beverage makers were forced to remove lithium in 1948.

([2]) Sinclair was promoted in 1993 to run worldwide operations for the $65 billion food and beverage maker.

Tradewell is now trading that concentrate to another beverage maker in exchange for flavored drinks.

And competing private-label beverage makers regard Cott as a sitting duck.

Four beverage makers from the United States and Australia will be on hand to demonstrate which beverages go with the various cuisines.

Domestic car sales boomed while some foreign food and beverage makers were pushed out of the market altogether.

Several beverage makers, for instance, say that guarana is an aphrodisiac.

Just when every beverage maker in America appears to have jumped on the energy drink bandwagon, though, youth fashions are moving in new directions.

Miller will introduce a clear beer, joining other beverage makers in focusing on consumer interest in colorless drinks.