Your next Pepsi might be made with beet sugar processed in Nampa | Business | Idaho Statesman
A soft-drink bottler said Friday that is about to begin distributing Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback sodas sweetened with 100 percent sugar from Amalgamated Sugar Co.’s Nampa plant.
The new products aim to appeal to Baby Boomers and younger people who find all things retro appealing, Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC said in a news release.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the nation’s largest independent Pepsi bottler, based in North Carolina and operating manufacturing, distribution and sales facilities in seven states including Idaho.
“We are very excited about launching Throwback into our lineup,” said Tim McGee, vice president and general manager for PBV Idaho. “Additionally, we are very close to securing approval from the Idaho Agricultural Commission, which will create even more excitement in a local Idaho product.
“We will literally be buying sugar from our neighbors across the street here in Nampa to manufacture these products.”
Amalgamated Sugar Co. is owned by more than 800 grower-members who grow sugar beets on about 180,000 acres. Amalgamated has more than 1,300 full-time employees at three sugar factories in Nampa, Paul and Twin Falls.