Monster Beverage
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| Company type | Public (Nasdaq: HANS) |
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| Founded | 1930 in Southern California |
| Headquarters | Corona, California |
| Products | Soft drinks, natural juices, energy drinks |
| Revenue |  $511 million |
Number of employees | 2,157 average in 2009 |
| Subsidiaries | Blue Sky Beverage Company |
| Website | hansens.com |
Hansen Natural Corporation (Nasdaq: HANS) manufactures natural soft drinks and fruit drinks including Monster Energy, Hansen's Natural Soda, Hansen's Energy, Ace Energy Drink, Joker Mad Energy, and Blue Sky.
Hansen’s Natural Sodas® have been a leading natural soda brand in Southern California for the past 30 years. According to Information Resources, Inc.'s Analyzer Reports for California, in 2009 Hansen's natural sodas recorded the highest sales among comparable carbonated new age category beverages measured by unit volume in the California market. Hansen’s Natural Sodas®, with cane sugar and Hansen’s® Calorie Free Sodas contain no preservatives, no sodium and no caffeine. The company offers the following sodas under the Hansen’s® brand name: Hansen’s Natural Sodas®, Hansen’s® Calorie Free Sodas, Hansen’s® Natural Soda Mixers, Hansen’s® Natural Sparkling Sleek Beverages, and Hansen’s® Natural Sparkling Sleek Sugar Free Beverages. Hansen's sodas are packaged in 12-ounce and/or 16-ounce aluminum cans and Hansen's sleek beverages are packaged in contemporary 10.5-ounce aluminum cans. [1]
According to Hansen's official website, "In the 1930’s, Hubert Hansen and his three sons began selling fresh, non-pasteurized juices to film studios and retailers in Southern California under the Hansen’s® name. In the 1970’s, Tim Hansen, the grandson of Hubert, developed and marketed a variety of Natural sodas and pasteurized shelf stable, 100% juices also under the Hansen’s® label." [1]
Products
Natural Soda
Hansen Natural Corporation manufactures its Natural Soda in eleven different flavors - Ginger Ale, Key Lime Twist, Cherry Vanilla Creme, Grapefruit, Kiwi Strawberry, Vanilla Cola, Mandarin Lime, Creamy Root Beer, Raspberry, Mango Orange, and Pomegranate [1]. All of Hansen's natural cane soda products are made with real cane sugar.
Diet Soda
Their Diet Soda is available in eight flavors - Black Cherry, Peach, Kiwi Strawberry, Tangerine Lime, Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Grapefruit, and Pomegranate. Hansen's diet soda is sweetened with acesulfame potassium and sucralose.[1]
Signature Soda
Their Signature Soda line includes Black Cherry, Vanilla Cream, Orange Cream, Ginger Beer, and Sarsparilla flavors.[1]
Drink Mixers
Hansen Natural Corporation also manufactures three flavors of 8oz soda mixers - Tonic, Ginger Ale, and Club Soda.
Natural and Diet Tea Sodas
Hansen's has four flavors of natural green tea soda (Lemon Mint, Pomegranate, Ginger, and Tangerine). There are also three flavors of diet green tea soda - Lemon Mint, Ginger, and Tangerine. Additionally, Hansen Natural Corporation makes tea bags.
Fruit Juices
In addition the company has a line of 9 different fruit juices, several of the juice blends are available in small bottles for kids.
Other Beverage Products
Smoothies, Rumba Energy Juice, Energade, Energy Formula, and Fizzit are other minor product lines. They also own Blue Sky Beverage Company, that manufactures several soft drinks. Hansen also produces the Monster, Lost, and Rumba energy drinks, which are distributed in the United States by Anheuser Busch.[2] On November 10, 2008, distribution of the Monster Energy and Monster Java products was turned over to Coca-Cola Enterprises.
Notable events
Hansen's Natural Soda won the American Tasting Institute's Gold Medal Taste Award for 1999-2000.[3]
In April, 2008, the FDA announced that products containing high fructose corn syrup could not be labeled as "natural".[4] Shortly after, Hansen's Natural Corporation announced they had already removed high fructose corn syrup from their recipes, due to consumer demand.[5]
In September 2009, Hansen brand Monster Energy sent a 'cease and desist' letter to Rock Art Brewery about its Vermonster series of microbrew beers. This has resulted in a boycott of all Hansen products by several Vermont retailers. [6] Incidentally, Brooklyn Brewery had been using the name Monster since the late 90's, prior to the creation of Monster Energy drinks. [7]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hansen's Official Web Site Cite error: The named reference "hansens" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Hansen's Official Web Site: News & Events
- ^ [1]
- ^ Mueller, Sue. FDA: High fructose corn syrup not natural, April 22, 2008
- ^ Natural Soda
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]