Cottee's
{{Short description|Food and beverage brand}}
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{{Infobox company
|name = Cottees
|logo = Cottee's logo.jpg
|type = Cordials, conserves
|founded = 1927
|founder = Spencer Cottee
|location_city = Melbourne, Victoria
|location_country = Australia
|parent = Kraft Heinz
|homepage = [https://www.asahi.com.au/brands/water-cordial]
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Cottee's is an Australian food and beverage brand founded in 1927.{{cite web |title=Water & Cordial – Asahi.com.au |url=https://www.asahi.com.au/brands/water-cordial |access-date=2 November 2021}} Cottee's make a variety of products including cordial, jams, marmalades and other spreads, toppings, jellies and puddings. The company is owned by Kraft Heinz with its drinks manufactured under licence by Asahi Breweries.{{since when|date=May 2025}}
History
The company was founded in the early 20th century by dairy farmer Spencer Milton Cottee (September 1863 – 8 June 1944{{cite web |title=Obituaries Australia - Spencer Milton Cottee |url=https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cottee-spencer-milton-16133 |access-date=27 March 2025}}) from Lismore. Cottee was a champion of the dairy industry and began processing and marketing the milk by-product casein.{{cite web |title=History |url=https://cottee.com/history/ |publisher=Cottee Group |access-date=2022-05-08}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17910101 |title=Mr. S. M. Cottee Dies |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=10 June 1944 |accessdate=11 December 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He diversified into processing passionfruit into Passiona soft drink. A factory was opened in Leichhardt in the 1930s. Passiona was also bottled in South Australia by Geo. Hall and Sons.
Apart from Passiona, the most popular Cottee's carbonated soft drinks were Tango (orange), and Coola (lime), with other flavours including lemon, cola, and lemonade. The brand's popularity reached its zenith in the 1960s. Cottee's Coola flavour is the most popular cordial in Australia (Coola, Australia's Flavourite Cordial).{{cite web| work=Cottee's Website| title=Cottee's History| url=http://www.cottees.com.au/HTML/PAGES/Story_Today.aspx| accessdate=3 January 2009 }}
In 1965, Cottee's was acquired by the American company General Foods and, in 1984, by Cadbury Schweppes.{{cite web| work=Cottee's Website| title=Cottee's History| url=http://www.cottees.com.au/HTML/PAGES/Story_Beginnings.aspx| accessdate=3 January 2009 }} Schweppes Australia was acquired by Asahi Breweries in 2009.
See also
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External links
- [https://www.asahi.com.au/brands/water-cordial Official Website]
Category:Drink companies of Australia
Category:Food and drink companies established in 1927
Category:Australian companies established in 1927
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