Blue Ridge Beverage Company, Inc., founded in 1938, is a full-service distributor of beer, wine, cider, flavored malt beverages, hard seltzers, canned cocktails, and non-alcohol beverages in Southwest and Central Virginia. Blue Ridge Beverage employs more than 500 people and services more than 4,300 retail customers, including grocery and other large-format stores, convenience and other small-format stores, and restaurants. The company is headquartered in the Roanoke Valley and has four community-based facilities servicing 49 counties and 16 independent cities, representing more than 60% of the state’s geography. Blue Ridge Beverage offers beverage suppliers the most experienced, sophisticated route-to-market in the region.
Independent Beverage Company is a bottling company located in Charlotte, NC. Founded in 1992, Independent Beverage produces bottle and can soft drinks, sparkling water and other cold-fill beverages for National Brand, Private Label and Contract Pack customers.
Independent Beverage bottles Private Label brands for retailers as well as national brands including: Cheerwine, Canada Dry, 7-Up, Sunkist, A&W, Sundrop, Country Time, Hawaiian Punch, Sunny D and others. Independent Beverage bottles and cans various sizes and flavors of beverages, including our own brand of sparkling waters called CLEAR FROST.