Soft Drinks and Water
Soft drinks? Water? North Carolina is the home of a famous cherry drink and bottled water. It also has a number of companies marketing N.C. spring water.
Soft DrinksCheerwine (Salisbury) - North Carolina is the original home of Cheerwine, the unique cherry soft drink, which turned 90 years old in 2007! If you've never had Cheerwine, you don't know what you're missing. (Owner - Carolina Beverage Company)
WaterLe Bleu (Advance) - Well-known bottled water producer, Le Bleu Corporation, was formed in 1990. It produces the highest quality, ultra pure bottled water on the market today (using a patent pending purification process). It also markets its own brand of sports drinks, coffee, soaps, flavored drinks, and muscadine products.
North Carolina Spring Water Association (Mars Hill) - This is a membership organization for North Carolina state certified spring water members. Members include spring water owners, bottlers, and distributor. It also defines "certified spring water."
Clearly Carolina (Concord) - This was started in 1992, and markets state certified N.C. spring water from the N.C. mountains, under its own label.
Creekside Mountain Springs (Newland -office, Hendersonville - bottler) - It markets state certified mountain spring water from Henderson County, under its own label & private, custom labels.
High Country Mountain Spring Water (Greenville - office, Deep Gap - plant) - It markets bottled, state certified spring water under private, custom labels. Its spring is located at the foot of Elk Mountain in Watauga County.
Indian Spring Water Company (Wilmington) - It has been selling purified drinking water, and state certified spring water to the greater Wilmington area since 1986.
Moonshine Bottling (Hendersonville) - It markets bottled, state certified spring water under its own label and private, custom labels. Its spring is in the N.C. mountains.