Sinalco is a German

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s first marketed in 1902, with sales in now more than 40 countries. Sinalco is the oldest soft drink brand in Europe. It is produced by Sinalco International, a company headquartered in Detmold, Germany. In 1902, German

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Friedrich Eduard Bilz invented "Bilz Brause", a sherbet powder, and started to sell it in partnership with

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Franz Hartmann. As imitations started to appear, they held a prize competition for a brand name, and chose "Sinalco" (an abbreviation of the

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''sine alcohole'', "without alcohol"). As one of the first

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brands, Sinalco came to be exported worldwide, particularly to

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was registered in 1937. A distinctively-shaped

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was launched in the 1950s, and updated at the end of the century. Besides the original Sinalco Orange, today the company also bottles Sinalco Cola and a few other kinds of soft drinks. As of 2009, Sinalco was the third most popular lemonade brand in Germany, after

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and Sprite. In

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Sinalco soft drinks are produced by food tech company Dana, licensed by Sinalco International GmbH & Co.

Products

Sinalco's basic line of products includes:https://sinalco.de/produkte. German-language website. Retrieved October 4, 2023. *Sinalco Cola (light; without sugar; without sugar + lemon; without sugar + cherry) *Sinalco Cola Mix *Sinalco Orange (without sugar) *Sinalco Zitron (without sugar) *Sinalco Orange Passion Fruit *Sinalco Bitter Lemon *Sinalco Lemon Lime *Sinalco Cloudy Lemon *Sinalco Special *Sinalco Apple *Sinalco Rosso (Blood Orange and Passion fruit) *Sinalco Fresco (Lemon and Elderberry) *Sinalco Caribico *Sinalco iced tea Peach *Sinalco iced tea Lemon In addition, Sinalco bottles energy drinks, teas, water and much more.

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