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Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Buffalo Rock Company is one of the largest single-family privately owned Pepsi-Cola bottler. Today it operates 14 distribution centers in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, servicing a population of more than 6 million. In addition, we ship to many distribution points where we do not own the franchise rights. The story of Buffalo Rock spans over 100 years and four generations of the Lee family. Beginning in the late 1800's, with the founding of the wholesale Alabama Grocery Company by Sidney W. Lee, the firm moved into the soft drink business when Lee and a Selma chemist, Ashby Coleman developed Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale. The popularity of the new drink soon eclipsed all other products and in 1927, became the sole business of the renamed Buffalo Rock Company. For the next 30 years, the Company's main products were Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale, Mission Orange, Mission Grape and B-1. Originally located on First Avenue North, Buffalo Rock moved to 10th Avenue and 26th Street North in 1922. The Company's huge electric sign, erected on the roof of the 26th Street plant, fascinated Birmingham residents. Lit by hundreds of bulbs, the sign showed a giant Buffalo Rock bottle pouring its contents into a glass.