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By the early 1970s, A&W was losing ground to McDonald's and KFC in both sides. The Canadian operations were sold to Unilever in an attempt to let the chain stay afloat. In 1972, A&W's newly-independent Canadian branch appointed Ron Woodall for a television commercial and a new mascot. The goal was to create a new commercial campaign for A&W ...
A&W cream soda also spent $1.5 million in ads commemorating "a little sparkle in a vanilla world." A new A&W campaign from New York, which featured regular people, kids to grandparents, all describing their satisfaction of A&W. The campaign took a different direction from A&W's common and past humorous ads, using sepia-toned images.
In December 2000, A&W announced new openings in less conventional locations, such as casinos, airports, gas stations, convention centers and convenience stores, for 2001, as part of its growth plans. At the time, the chain had more than 1,000 locations in 47 states and over 200 international locations in 14 countries. [71]
In 1983, United Brands sold A&W Root Beer to a group of investors. In 1986, Hicks & Haas and management bought A&W from the investor group. [9] In 1986 A&W Cream Soda and A&W Diet Cream Soda were introduced and distributed nationally, followed in 1987 by the reformulation of A&W Sugar-Free as Diet A&W. Also in 1986, A&W acquired Squirt.
The new, free IRS system called Direct File — which is open to many but not all taxpayers in 25 states this tax season — includes new features this year to make it similar to commercial tax ...
The Partnership licenses the trademarks to A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. in exchange for a royalty of 3% of the sales of A&W restaurants in Canada. A&W Food Services owns ~21% of A&W Trade Marks Inc. which is the sole general partner in the Partnership, while the rest is owned by A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund. [35]
A&W Restaurants: 1963–1974: The Great Root Bear (Rooty) A&W Root Beer A&W Restaurants [1] debuted 1974: The Aflac duck: Aflac insurance: 2000–present: originally voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, fired in 2011; now voiced by Daniel McKeague. [2] The Ajax pixies: Ajax cleanser: 1948–1950s: speaking voices are Joe Silver, Hans Conreid and June ...
Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants. Yum! was founded as Tricon Global Restaurants after PepsiCo finalized the split. In 2002, they took their current name after they merged with Yorkshire Global Restaurants, which at the time was the parent company of A&W, who also spun off an international branch.