private industry beverage fate closed ibc name sold successor northwestern bottling company founded 1919 headquarters st. louis missouri key people griesedieck family products ibc root beer website www.ibcrootbeer.com ibc root beer type soft drink manufacturer independent breweries company 1919 northwestern bottling company national bottling company 1930s 1976 taylor beverages 1976 1980 seven up company 1980 dr pepper seven up cadbury schweppes 2008 dr pepper snapple group 2008 country of origin 1919 in st. louis missouri united states variants ibc diet root beer the independent breweries company was a syndicate founded in st. louis missouri by the combination of griesediecks 1 national brewery 2 columbia alpen brau the gast brewery in baden a.b.c. 1 and wagner brewing company . 2 this combination was ill fated due to high overhead with too many executives and low profits forcing ibc into receivership . the ibc root beer was the main survivor of the syndicate . 1 contents 1 root beer 2 flavors 2.1 currently 2.2 additional flavors 3 see also 4 external links 5 references root beer edit ibc root beer was founded in 1919 by the griesedieck family as the independent breweries company in st. louis missouri . root beer found a market as a legal beverage during the era of prohibition . the independent breweries company closed but the trademark was purchased by the kranzberg family who operated the northwestern bottling company . in the late 1930s it was sold to the national bottling company owned by the shucart family . popularity and distribution declined after world war ii . in 1976 the ibc trademark was sold to taylor beverages which was then sold to the seven up company in 1980 . after dr pepper and 7 up merged in 1986 distribution of ibc became national throughout the united states . ultimately dr pepper seven up was acquired by cadbury schweppes in 1995 . ibc was subsequently organized within the cadbury schweppes americas beverages unit of cadbury schweppes before being spun off into dr pepper snapple group in 2008 . as of july 2016 ibc has reformulated its beverages using cane sugar in place of high fructose corn syrup . this has resulted in what many have perceived to be an inferior product squelching the original bite and providing a cloyingly sweet generic carbonated beverage . 3 the bottles are now distributed in 4 bottle packs instead of the original 6 and no longer have the ibc logo formed into the bottle itself but rather printed on a plain brown bottle . this change has also resulted in increase in average price per bottle . flavors edit currently edit ibc root beer ibc diet root beer ibc cream soda ibc black cherry additional flavors edit ibc tangerine cream soda ibc cherry cola ibc cherry limeade ibc berries and cream ibc birch beer ibc strawberries and cream ibc black cherry wishniak ibc peach cream soda see also edit fitz s another st. louis root beer external links edit official website references edit a b c griesedieck bros. history . griesedieck brothers brewery company . archived from the original on 2008 04 03 . retrieved 2008 06 20 . edited from the st. louis globe democrat by steve debellis a b donald roussin ; 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