Dr Pepper is NOT a Pepsi product

I can't tell you how many times when I tell people that we have Pepsi products (at the restaurant where i work) that people ask for Dr Pepper. I've had a few people tell me that it's a Pepsi product. However, it is NOT. They are sometimes available together in certain restaurants. So here are the facts from Dr Pepper's website, PepsiCo.com and a few other resources.

Dr Pepper/ Seven Up, Inc. is a company under the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. Which came into being after Cadbury Schweppes demerged (originally merging in 1969, according to dr pepper snapple group) in 2008 to Cabury and Dr Pepper Snapple Group. It was in 1986 that 7up merged with Dr Pepper.

Now you might say, "but I see the 7up logo on the PepsiCo site." Yes Pepsi has licensing to distribute 7up internationally. On the 7up website it is listed as a product of Dr Pepper/ Seven Up inc. with no mention of pepsico. In fact Funding Universe , which is a site that focuses on company histories, lists the Coca-Cola Company and Pepsico as Principal Competitors with Dr Pepper Seven Up inc.

So the next time you go into a restaurant and they say they have pepsi products, if they have Dr Pepper it is because they were distrubuted together not because Dr Pepper is a Pepsi product.