The company anticipated to sell $500,000,000 of A & W soft drinks in Asia within the span of ten years to make the company's brands as prevalent as Pepsi, which was already distributed in Guam and Indonesia. worked together over a signed agreement to increase the spread of A&W's bottled products in Asia. Īlso, in 1992 Pepsi-Cola International and A&W Brands Inc. "They are white, which is the color of innocence, even though in this case it's 800 pounds of skin-ripping innocence," Mr. The polar bears are used as a marketing technique to appeal to a large audience. They use the real bear yawning to embody the regular cream soda, and they use the ice-skating polar bear to represent the sparkling cream soda. The commercial used the polar bears to distinguish a difference between regular A&W cream soda and sparkling A&W cream soda. In that commercial, a real polar bear is seen in contrast to a mechanical polar bear that is ice-skating in a fancy skirt. A&W, the leading root beer marketer, filmed their own commercial using polar bears in the summer of 1992. These images can be seen on regular A&W cream soda as well as Diet A&W cream soda cans.Ĭoca-Cola's first polar bear print advertisement made its debut in France in 1922, and for the next 70 years, polar bears appeared sporadically in print advertising. These cans were very popular among buyers. Snoopy can be seen playing baseball, having a cookout, lifting weights, surfing, walking the beach, riding a bike, jumping hurdles, and listening to music. Snoopy and Woodstock are characters from the Peanuts Gang comic strips written by Charles M. They produced a summer advertisement with Snoopy and Woodstock displayed on the entire can.
In 1991, A&W had its most popular cream soda campaign.