Woodroofe

William Woodroofe and to a lesser extent, Bruce Randall, founded the business in 1878 in Norwood, South Australia.

Woodroofe's innovative products and aggressive marketing saw them operate successfully as a regional independent soft drink producer for over a century.

Subsequently, the South Australian Brewing Company purchased the soft drink manufacturing activities and they onsold the business to Cadbury Schweppes, who closed the historic Norwood factory and relocated production to their facility at nearby Payneham.

Generations of South Australian mothers gave their sick children boiled Woodroofe's lemonade under medical advice.

[citation needed] Other distinctive proprietary flavours included "Big Sars" sarsaparilla and "Sno-Top" (a brown vanilla-flavoured cream soda).