Dubai Refreshment: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 22:30 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Mountain Dew 1.5 L** (UPC 012000803864, wanted list: the 2007 page's "mountain dew", 1.5 Liter). - **Identity.** The lookup flagged a conflict between Open Food Facts ("dew") and USDA ("MTN D. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Dubai Refreshment <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Dubai Refreshment
disambiguation: PepsiCo franchise bottler in the United Arab Emirates
legal_name: Dubai Refreshment (P.J.S.C.)
country: AE
website: https://pepsidrc.com
founded: 1959
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role        | target             | market | from | until | ended | status  | source | note                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ----------- | ------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| distributes | brand/mountain-dew | AE     |      |       |       | printed | ^pack  | Mountain Dew 1.5 L (UPC 012000803864) is printed as bottled by this company under licence from PepsiCo; the company's history page records its Mountain Dew can launch in 1982. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                         | type  | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Dubai Refreshment (P.J.S.C.) | legal | en     |      |       |
| دبي للمرطبات (ش.م.ع.)        | legal | ar     |      |       |
| DRC                          | name  | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref  | url                                                                     | title                                                                                                           | accessed   | publisher         | kind         | published  | record_id             | locator     | licence      | attribution                  | upstream |
| ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------------------- | ----------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| pack | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/001/200/080/3864/1.jpg | Photograph of the 1.5 L bottle's side label: barcode, Arabic and English ingredients, bottler line, energy icon | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts   | pack         | 2022-07-09 | 0012000803864 imgid 1 | Side label  | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors |          |
| drc  | https://pepsidrc.com/who-we-are/                                        | Who We Are - Dubai Refreshment Company                                                                          | 2026-09-14 | Dubai Refreshment | manufacturer |            |                       | Our history |              |                              |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Dubai Refreshment, known as DRC, is the PepsiCo franchise bottler and distributor of the United Arab Emirates. Its factory was established in Deira in 1959 with one line for returnable Pepsi bottles, it was appointed sole PepsiCo franchisee and distributor in 1962, launched Mountain Dew cans in 1982 and became a public shareholding company in July 1994.[^drc] The Arabic label of Mountain Dew 1.5 L names it as the bottler, "دبي للمرطبات (ش.م.ع.)", P.O. Box 420, United Arab Emirates, under licence from PepsiCo Inc.[^pack]
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