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American Beverage Association

American beverage industry lobby organization

Summary

American beverage industry lobby organization

Field	Value
name	American Beverage Association
logo	American Beverage Logo.png
trade_name	ABA
type	Trade Association (501(c)(6))
industry	Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry
predecessor	American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages; National Soft Drink Association
foundation
location_country	United States
locations
key_people	Matthew Dent, Chair
services	Lobbying on behalf of non-alcoholic beverage producers
homepage

The American Beverage Association (ABA) is a government lobbying group that represents the beverage industry in the United States. Its members include producers and bottlers of soft drinks, such as The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper, along with other non-alcoholic beverages.

History

The organization was founded in 1919, and originally named the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages. In 1966, it renamed itself the National Soft Drink Association.

Leadership

Its members are bottling companies and other beverage industry firms, including Bulldog Americas Corporation, several Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola bottlers, Pepsi-Americas Inc, and Royal Crown Bottling Corporation.

Lobbying

The American Beverage Association's lobbying efforts have recently skyrocketed, largely to finance the industry's opposition to legislators’ considering increased taxes on soft drinks given their impact on Americans' health. The Association has annually spent from $391,000 to more than $690,000 annually on lobbying from 2003 to 2008. In the 2010 election cycle, its lobbying grew more than 1000 percent to $8.67 million. These funds are helping to pay for 25 lobbyists at seven different lobbying firms.

Latest news

In September 2009, a New England Journal of Medicine study called for taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages saying that these actions would cut rates of diet-related diseases and health care costs. Written by experts in nutrition, public health and economics, the study called for an excise tax of a penny per ounce on soft drinks and other beverages that have added sweeteners such as sucrose, high fructose corn syrup or fruit-juice concentrates. The expectation is that such a tax could reduce calorie consumption from sweetened beverages by 10% and create revenue that governments could use to pay for health programs. A report on the New England Journal of Medicine study can be read here

To counter these pro-tax efforts, the American Beverage Association and other beverage industry companies have established an "Americans Against Food Taxes" coalition and website. Their efforts include national advertising and other actions positioning the proposed taxes as "taxing hard-working families." This group's actions have been opposed by pro-tax organizations including the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

To date, 33 states have taxes on soft drinks but they are "too low to affect consumption and the revenues are not earmarked for health programs," according to the New England Journal of Medicine study.

References

"American Beverage Association - About the American Beverage Association".
"American Beverage Association : About ABA : It's a 'Bevolution'".
http://www.ameribev.org/about-aba/board-of-directors/ {{Webarchive. link. (2009-12-09 American Beverage Association website, Nov 20 2009)
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?lname=American+Beverage+Assn&year=2009 [[OpenSecrets]], ABA profile
Bauerlein, Betsy McKay And Valerie. "New Report Calls for Tax of Penny an Ounce on Soft Drinks".
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/361/16/1599.pdf New England Journal of Medicine, The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages, Oct 15 2009
http://nofoodtaxes.com/ No Food Taxes website, Nov 20 2009
http://www.cspinet.org/liquidcandy/index.html{{Dead link. (May 2025)
Bauerlein, Betsy McKay And Valerie. "New Report Calls for Tax of Penny an Ounce on Soft Drinks".

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