Great State Beverages, Inc. history

1921: Company changes name to Faygo.

The Feigenson brothers also purchased their first delivery truck and began to make home deliveries in 1923.

The company was incorporated in 1946, operating in a garage on Rimmon Street in Manchester NH under the direction of Thomas J Fillon.

1961: Royal line is introduced; Orange Pineapple flavor is recalled after bottles burst.

Faygo began advertising its products on broadcasts of Detroit Tigers baseball games in 1965.

After a few years Gordie decided to leave Amoskeag and Tom Bullock joined Bo as a business partner. It wasn’t until 1974 when Robert “Bo” Dickson and Gordon Welch purchased Amoskeag Beverages Inc from the Cloutier family that things began to slowly change.

1978: Michigan container deposit bill is passed; Faygo has difficulty adapting.

In 1979 having outgrown the facility on Rimmon Street, Amoskeag moved to a new warehouse on Route 3-A in Hooksett NH. Just prior to the move Mark Janulis entered as a business partner with Bo and Tom.

The company went through five firms before returning to Doner in 1980.

However, a few months later TreeSweet sold the firm to National Beverage Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a holding company which had been formed in 1985 to buy Shasta Beverages from Sara Lee Foods.

June 1988 proved to be a turning point for Amoskeag Beverages Inc! Good Life Beverage Company’s contract to distribute Miller Brewing Company’s products for the state of New Hampshire was terminated and the rights were awarded to three companies.

The following year, 1997, marked Faygo's 90th anniversary, and the company published a special recipe book in celebration that included dishes that used Faygo sodas as ingredients.

Mark Janulis passed away April 23, 1999.

In the summer of 2001 a line of retro-styled 16 ounce glass-bottled sodas was also introduced.

December 31, 2004 Amoskeag Beverages Inc, closed on the acquisition of the distribution rights for the Miller Brewing Company products in Cheshire and Sullivan counties and parts of Hillsboro and Grafton counties from Senecal Beverages.

In May of 2008 Amoskeag closed on the acquisition of the distribution rights for Boston Beer, Crown Imports, Mikes Hard Lemonade, and Genesee from Senecal Beverages in the same geography as the Miller acquisition.

February 11, 2009 Amoskeag Beverages Inc and Capitol Distributors Inc entered into an agreement to merge the two companies into a new entity named Amoskeag Beverages LLC. Amoskeag is operated by Tom Bullock COB, Ed Murphy President.