Arizona Beverage Company

The Arizona Beverage Company is a popular producer of various flavors of iced tea and energy drinks from the United States, based in Lake Success, New York. The Arizona Beverage Company is a branch of Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, which started out as a brewery in New York City.

Arizona is known for its product line of "tall boy" drinks of 23.5 (recently scaled down to a flat 23) fl. oz. iced teas and other beverages for around $0.99 USD.

History

In August 2007, The Tata Group conglomerate of India began looking at a number of acquisition targets in the US beverage market and is expected to mount a $2-billion buyout offer for Arizona Beverages, which would add to Tata's portfolio of tea, coffee, water, juice brands, beer and snacks. If a bid goes through, the Tatas will keep both the bottled and powder beverage operations and may divest the beer and snack businesses. Tatas are believed to have been interested in Arizona Beverages for almost three years. Merrill Lynch is the group’s advisor for the possible bid.

Sweet Tea Label controversy

In early 2008, AriZona changed the label on the packaging of their Southern Style Sweet Tea. On the old label, a southern-style house was shown, along with a couple on the front porch and one more woman in a dress walking away from the house. The controversy arose when the third woman was purported to be a slave working on a plantation. Because of this, the Sweet Tea label now shows two paddle boats on a moonlit river.

Products

Teas

• Black Tea
  • Black Tea with Ginseng
  • Lemon Tea
  • Peach Tea
  • Raspberry Tea
  • Southern Style Sweet Tea
  • Southern Style Unsweetened Tea
  • Diet Lemon Tea
  • Diet Peach Tea
  • Diet Raspberry Tea.
• Botanicals (Decaffeinated Tea) (retired)
  • Botanical Black Tea
  • Botanical Green Tea
  • Botanical Red Tea
• Green Tea
  • Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey
  • Green Tea Lemonade (retired)
  • Extra Sweet Green Tea
  • Red Apple Green Tea
  • Asian Plum Green Tea
  • Mandarin Orange Green Tea
  • Pomegranate Green Tea
  • Peach Green Tea
  • Diet Green Tea
  • Decaf Diet Green Tea
  • Diet Blueberry Green Tea
  • Diet Peach Green Tea
  • Diet White Cran-Apple Green Tea
• White Tea
  • Blueberry White Tea
  • Black and White Tea
• Herbal Tea
  • RX Energy (30mg caffeine per 8 fl/oz.)
  • RX Health (decaf) (retired)
  • RX Memory (decaf) (retired)
  • RX Stress (decaf)

Tea and juice

• Half & Half (lite)
  • Arnold Palmer Black Tea & Lemonade
  • Arnold Palmer Green Tea & Lemonade
  • Green Tea Lemonade
• Tea and 50% Juice (decaffeinated)
  • Apple Green Tea
  • Pomegranate Green Tea
  • White Grape Green Tea

Energy

• Caution Energy
  • Low Carb Energy Drink
  • Performance Energy Drink
• Green Tea Energy
  • Green Tea Energy Drink
  • Diet Green Tea Energy Drink
  • Lite Pomegranate Green Tea Energy Drink
• All City NRG (Coming Soon!)
  • 3 Limited Edition Graffiti Inspired Cans

Coffee

• Cappuccino Shake
  • Double Roasted Cappuccino
  • Kahlua Cappuccino
  • Rich Chocolaty Cappuccino

Juices

• Ades
  • Grapeade
  • Lemonade
  • Orangeade
• Fruit Juice
  • Crazy Cocktail
  • Kiwi Strawberry
  • Mucho Mango
  • Piña Colada
  • Watermelon
• Punch
  • Fruit Punch

Powder

• Black Tea
  • Diet Lemon Tea
  • Diet Peach Tea
• Green Tea
  • Decaf Diet Green Tea
  • Diet Green Tea

Sport Drinks

• Hypotonic

Water

• Infused Water
  • Berry
  • Lemon
  • Orange
  • Peach
  • Banana
• Spring Water
  • Arizona Spring Water

Arizona in the United Kingdom

Arizona's range of products in the United Kingdom is simpler, with only the bottled green tea varieties being available from such retailers as Holland & Barrett.

External links

• Arizona Beverage Company official web site
• American Drinks Limited (distributor of Arizona drinks in the United Kingdom)