 Brewer/bottler #1291 | | | Name | The Grand Pop Bottling Company |
| | Address | 810 West Fifth Street
1333 Versailles Road. |
| | | | | | | | Extra info | In 1921, the New York Mineral Water Co. on 822 Richmond St., Cincinnati changed its name to the Grand Pop Bottling Co.
In 1925, two women named Nell Gross and Esther Jarson worked in the office of the Grand Pop Bottling Co. in Cincinnati. With the early stages of the depression taking place, the owner of Grand Pop decided to put the company on the market. Nell Gross and Esther Jarson asked their husbands, Walter Gross and Isaac N. Jarson if they would be interested in becoming equal partners in purchasing the business. Walter and Isaac agreed and all four put in 25% and became equal partners in the company.
In 1935, a representative from the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company called upon the families and offered them a Pepsi franchise. The Gross and Jarson families accepted the offer and started selling Pepsi soon afterward.
From Cincinnati they sent trucks as far as they could in all directions. The Pepsi-Cola Company stopped them only after they had gone so far that they could no longer handle the production necessary in Cincinnati. In 1939 they built a production facility in Hamilton, Ohio. In 1940 they built a production facility in Lexington, KY and bought the Portsmouth, Ohio franchise, which was already in operation.
The business prospered, but in 1955, the Pepsi-Cola Company told them that they needed to build a new production plant in Cincinnati. Rather than go into heavy debt, they decided to sell only the Cincinnati franchise portion of the business, which was roughly half of the sales of the whole company. They decided to build a production facility in Ripley, OH, which left them plants in Hamilton, Ripley, Portsmouth, OH and Lexington, KY.
Today: G&J Pepsi Bottlers is the nation’s largest wholly owned franchise bottler with its growth over the years stemming from the combination of seven franchises. Many third-generation Gross and Jarson family members have active operating roles in the company. The corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati, operates distribution and production centers in Athens, OH; Chillicothe, OH; Columbus, OH; Campton, KY; Hamilton, OH; Harrodsburg, KY; Lexington, KY; Portsmouth, OH; Ripley, OH; Wilmington, OH; Winchester, KY; and Zanesville, OH.
Tom Collins Jr. was a trademark brand owned by the company.
The I-C brand was copyrighted in 1947 |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | Grandpa Brands Corporation |
| | | Name 2 | Tom Collins Jr. Co. (Cincinnati, OH) |
| | | Name 3 | New York Mineral Water Co. |
| | | Name 4 | The Tom Collins Corporation |
| | | Name 5 | Grandpa Brands Company |
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