bottling company type private industry beverage founded 1918 1918 headquarters allentown pennsylvania united states area served northeastern united states products carbonated soft drinks revenue usd 10 million 1998 1 website http www.a treat.com the a treat bottling company is a beverage company with headquarters in allentown lehigh county pennsylvania in the united states that manufactured and bottled the regionally popular a treat brand of carbonated soft drinks . a treat temporarily stopped production in 2015 but was then revived by jaindl companies after a local outpouring of support . 2 contents 1 history 2 products 3 distribution 4 see also 5 references history edit a treat was formally established in 1918 by joseph c. and john l. jack egizio . 3 their father gioacchino egizio started a beverage business in the family home in the 600 block of front street in allentown and later built a small manufacturing facility behind the home . 4 their mother vincenza munjone also came from a family involved in the beverage business in allentown . in 1932 the egizio brothers moved the business to union boulevard in east allentown 3 where it remains to this day . joseph c. egizio served as the board chairman of a treat bottling co. until retiring in 1989 . he died in 2000 at the age of 96 . 5 john l. egizio who had started working at the company at the age of 13 delivering sodas on his bicycle served as vice president and co owner until his death in 1990 . 4 in 1991 the company was the subject of regional news coverage when a smear campaign was launched against a treat as it tried to sell its sodas in new york city . the campaign which targeted african americans claimed certain brands of carbonated beverages including those produced by a treat were actually manufactured by the ku klux klan and contained stimulants that would sterilize the black man . 6 investigations by the u.s. food and drug administration and new york city s department of health found the claims to be unsubstantiated and untrue . 6 see also tropical fantasy on july 21 2015 it was announced that the jaindl companies had purchased the a treat brand including its name trademarks formulas and related intellectual property . a co packing agreement was reached with the coca cola company that keeps production in the lehigh valley with production scheduled to resume in august 2015 . a poll was held on july 27th 2015 to decide the first flavors a treat would release onto store shelves . orange cream with 17 % of the votes and black cherry with 8 % were declared the winners and production of the two flavors was immediately started alongside the eight previously announced flavors birch beer cream big blue ginger ale sarsaparilla orange root beer grapefruit and diet cream . on may 20th 2016 a treat launched orange cream onto store shelves . it was the company s first new flavor in more than six years . incidentally it was revealed that the winning flavor was the result of one person voting over 10 000 times in the two polls . 2 products edit the company formerly distinguished itself by producing sodas in the traditional manner e.g. using essential oils and cane sugar rather than extracts and high fructose corn syrup . as of the final production the company used both cane sugar syrup and high fructose corn syrup . a treat produced soft drinks in at least 16 different flavors including big blue blue raspberry birch beer black cherry champagne kola cola cream soda fruit punch two kinds of ginger ale pale dry and golden formerly peppery golden grape grapefruit white birch beer pineapple sarsaparilla two kinds of orange regular and orange dry lime formerly tom collins mixer tonic water formerly quinine water strawberry treat up and root beer . most if not all of these flavors were also produced in a diet formulation . 7 a treat birch beer and sarsaparilla are rated highly by connoisseurs of these types of beverages . 8 distribution edit a treat beverages had limited distribution throughout pennsylvania maryland new jersey and as far away as bermuda but only large scale distributors tend to carry the less ordinary flavors . however all flavors were sold online . the website was limited and ordering over the phone was listed on their basic site . josh jaindl runs daily operations for the company . see also edit list of bottling companies references edit cattabiani mario f. february 23 1998 . state offers soda monopoly state offers park soda monopoly pa . seeks big money from soft drink deal to help upgrade recreation areas and museums . . the morning call . pp . a. 01 . a b a treat back on some lehigh valley shelves . wfmz tv . retrieved 29 august 2015 . a b a treat about us . retrieved 2009 03 16 . a b john l. egizio 82 co owner executive of a treat bottling . . the morning call . july 31 1990 . pp . b. 06 . joseph c. egizio 96 founder of a treat bottling company . . the morning call . march 29 2000 . pp . a. 15 . a b herzog david july 4 1991 . rumor attacks sales of allentown soda company sterilizing soda rumor campaign attacks a treat drinks . . the morning call . pp . a. 01 . a treat soda sales online . 2003 . archived from the original on 23 august 2006 . retrieved 2006 08 03 . anthony s root beer barrel . archived from the original on 9 august 2006 . retrieved 2006 08 03 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title a treat bottling company & oldid 742168198 categories companies based in allentown pennsylvaniaprivately held companies based in pennsylvaniadrink companies of the united states1918 establishments in the united statesamerican soft drinksbottling companies1918 establishments in pennsylvaniaamerican companies established in 1918food and drink companies established in 1918 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to 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