Polar Beverages
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[[Category:Soft drinks]]
{{Infobox Company
| company_name = Polar Beverages
| company_logo = [[Image:Polar-Logo-for-Web.gif]]
| company_type = [[Privately held company]]
| foundation = 1882
| location = [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]], [[Massachusetts|MA]], [[United States of America|USA]]
| key_people = Ralph Crowley, Jr.
| industry = Beverages
| products = Polar Seltzers, Sodas and Mixers
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| homepage = [http://www.polarbev.com/default.html Polar Beverages website]
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'''Polar Beverages''' is a fourth- generation, family-owned business that traces its roots back to 1882 and is based in [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]], [[Massachusetts]]. The company is currently run by [[Ralph Crowley, Jr.]], the great-grandson of founder [[Denis Crowley]]. It is the largest independent soft-drink bottler in the United States.
The company creates many of its own beverages including a full line of [[Soft drink|sodas]], [[Carbonated water|seltzers]], and [[mixer]]s, while also bottling other regional and national brands. Polar products are often personally "imported" to the New York Tri-State area due to the large population of Bostonians now living in the area.
==Other brands that Polar bottles and distributes==
* [[7Up]]
* [[AriZona Beverage Company|AriZona]]
* [[Cape Cod Dry]]
* [[Country Time]]
* [[Gatorade]]
* [[Izze]]
* [[Hydrive]]
* [[Squirt]]
* [[Nantucket Nectars]]
* The Beast
* [[Sunkist (soft drink)|Sunkist]]
* [[Snapple]]
* [[RC Cola]]
* [[Fiji water]]
* [[Monster Energy]]
* [[All Sport]]
* [[Moxie]]
* [[Rush!]]
* [[Glacéau|Glacéau Products (Vitamin Water)]]
* [[O Beverages]]
* [[Steaz]]
* [[Stewart's]]
* [[Caribbean Iced Tea]]
==Orson the bear==
Polar is famous for its billboard off of [[Interstate 290 (Massachusetts)|I-290]] in Worcester. Next to the billboard sits the company mascot, Orson the inflatable [[polar bear]]. Orson is known for "disappearing," due to vandalism.
==Conflict with Coca-Cola==
In 1994 Polar made a TV commercial where a polar bear considers drinking a Coke, but throws it away and drinks a Polar seltzer instead. Coke sued Polar and got a restraining order against the ad which they claimed infringed on their previous television advertisements which contained polar bears.<ref>Steven M. Cordero. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property/respect/antibarbie.html Cocaine-Cola, the Velvet Elvis, and Anti-Barbie: Defending the Trademark and Publicity Rights to Cultural Icons]. Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, 1998.</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.polarbev.com/default.html Polar Beverages website]
* [http://www.hoovers.com/polar-beverages,-inc./--ID__108689--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml information from Hoovers.com]
[[Category:Soft drinks]]
[[Category:Beverage companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Worcester, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Companies based in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1882]]