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Cola wars
Soft drink marketing rivalry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the soft drink rivalry. For coca wars, see Coca eradication.
The Cola wars are the long-time rivalry between soft drink producers The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, who have engaged in mutually-targeted marketing campaigns for the direct competition between each company's product lines, especially their flagship colas, Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Beginning in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the competition escalated until it became known as the cola wars.[1][2]
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