Example: A soft drink bottler may run 16oz glass bottles one day, perform a changeover on the line and then run 20oz plastic bottles the next day.

There are also local soft drink bottlers, who make various local varieties of soda.

"All you read every day is mafia, crime and gangs," said Aybar Toker, the local soft drink bottler.

Soft drink bottlers and beer wholesalers say that lower taxes will create jobs.

The claim was that 27 soft drink bottlers and fountain syrup distributors were a part of the franchise.

Throughout the past decade, the number of independently owned soft drink bottlers declined through mergers and acquisitions.

The contracts are especially dangerous because soft drink bottlers have increased the average container size, with 20 ounces now common.

"The challenge is how Pepsi can distribute the products through soft drink bottlers in an economically viable manner."

The president suggested that local soft drink bottlers (in an era before bottled water was an American staple) make their inventory available.

Today, Pascual Boing is the only remaining wholly Mexican owned major soft drink bottler.