A.J. Canfield Company

The company then promoted its beverages and bottles to be of higher quality than other Chicago area soft drink makers.

This plan produced mixed results, as some retailers declined to carry Canfield's products to avoid the extra work required to return the bottles.

Canfield's also used unique reinforced wooden cases for delivery and return of their quart bottles to help prevent breakage.

Canfield's was a large scale advertiser on Channel 9 in Chicago until 1995, when the company was sold to Select Beverages.

[4] Its largest plant, on the south side of Chicago at East 89th Place, was closed in December 1995.