Pristine Vodka

When DeCrescente Distributing was founded in 1948, the wholesale beverage distributor used only one truck for its shipments of Fitzgerald s and Miller High Life beer. Today, the company sells a variety of different beers, including Canadian brews, such as Labatt, Molson and Moosehead; microbrews, such as Blue Moon, Sam Adams and Pete s Wicked; domestics, such as Miller, Coors, Killian s and Pabst; and imports, such as Newcastle, Red Stripe, Amstel Light, Guiness and Dos Equis. In all, the company distributes more than 8 million cases of beer annually to grocery stores, bars, restaurants, convenience stores and catering services in an 11-county area of upstate New York. DeCresente Distributing employs more than 300 people at its 170,000-square-foot facility in Mechanicsville, N.Y.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company, located in Albany, N.Y., is a regional plant that bottles and distributes numerous Coca-Cola brand beverages, including Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Minute-Maid, Sprite, Fresca, Frutopia, Mello Yello, Nestea and Powerade. The company manufactures most of its finished products from syrups and concentrates that it buys from The Coca-Cola Company and other licensors. It is a member of Coca-Cola Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company. CCE s bottling territories in North America are located in 46 states in the United States, the District of Columbia and all 10 provinces of Canada. The Albany plant is also a member of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York, which is located in Hawthorne, N.Y. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company, parent bottling company to all others, was chartered in Tennessee on November 30, 1899.