FAIR GOES OUT LIKE A LION

A lot of 7-Up has gone over the counter at the 7-Up International Sandwich Gardens since the World's Fair opened in April of 1964 -- some five million 9-ounce cups, to be exact!

. . . Not including some 100,000 7-Up "Floats," sold mainly during 1965!

Plus, of course, more than five and a half million cups sold through World's Fair restaurants, bars, venders and concession stands!

Total figures? We're too tired to count. No matter how you slice your statistics, you will still come up with one big fact . . .

Seven-Up was up front . . . up big . . . at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair!

Production and delivery would have kept a good-size 7-Up bottling plant busy for the 12-month run of the Fair. In fact, it required the facilities of one of the biggest ones -- the 7-Up Bottling Company of Brooklyn, who produced the 7-Up for the Seven-Up World's Fair Associates. The six New York Metropolitan Area 7-Up Developers in Brooklyn, N.Y., Norwalk, Conn., Hackensack, Plainfield, Newark and Washington, N.J., joined with The Seven-Up Company in forming the Seven-Up World's Fair Associates, which was designed to operate the 7-Up International Sandwich Gardens.

All these facts are very fine -- and we don't want to minimize them. But -- the sale of 7-Up at the World's Fair was actually a secondary purpose for 7-Up participation.

We wanted . . .

• To establish 7-Up, both domestically and internationally, as a major industrial force -- The 7-Up Company, its Canadian and Export subsidiaries, and especially 7-Up Developers.
• To demonstrate the affinity of 7-Up for food . . . through the medium of the unique trays of "International Sandwiches."
• To sample potential 7-Up customers who would be retuning to Developer territories all over the world.
• And to make all of us even prouder to be associated with 7-Up.

Were we successful?

Or perhaps first -- since we depended on the Fair itself for our visitors -- was the New York World's Fair a success?

It has been a very popular and convenient ploy for the press to suggest that it was not. Yet more than 50 million people attended in 12 months -- more people than have ever paid admission to gather in one place over a similar period of time in the history of the world.

We believe it was a great success -- but we'll let the World's Fair stand on its record.

We doubt if one of the 50 million people attending the World's Fair missed seeing the International Sandwich Gardens. Spread over 45,000 square feet of ground at the center of the Fair, with its clock tower rising 107 feet into the sky, the 7-Up Sandwich Gardens was a World's Fair landmark.

From the international sandwiches through the entertainment, to the costumes of the waitresses, the international idea was emphasized at every turn.

The very fact that 7-Up was there as a major participant -- alongside giants of industry and commerce -- spoke eloquently for 7-Up and its stature in the business community.

According to the best estimates available, five million people actually visited the Sandwich Gardens during the two seasons of the Fair -- about 10% of the total Fair attendance. All this against competition from 136 other exhibitors and 236 restaurant or concession stand operations!

Our main exhibit at the World's Fair was food . . . served dramatically in the form of the international sandwiches . . . and enhanced with cups of chilled 7-Up.

The 7-Up international sandwiches were, without question, the most talked-about food item at the Fair. The budget prices helped -- four sandwiches, plus garnishes and dessert, plus a chance to sit in shaded comfort and be entertained by live musicians, all for $1.50 plus tax!

But 7-Up and international sandwiches were not talked about only by budget-minded families. Radio and TV stations, food editors, columnists and food trade writers were captivated by the originality and popularity of the international sandwiches. And they told their listeners and readers about them.

Through one trade magazine spread on the Gardens, a luxury motel owner was so captivated that he decided to open an "International Sandwich Room" in his establishment -- with 7-Up and international sandwiches featured prominently on the menu.

Seven-Up with food? It happened a million times at the 7-Up International Sandwich Gardens.

Almost everyone attending the Fair had heard of 7-Up. And nearly everyone had tasted it. But not everyone was a regular user of 7-Up. "Seven-Up at the Fair" certainly did its part in stamping out this evil!

More than 10 million 9-ounce cups of 7-Up were served at the Gardens or at the Fair -- with each cup being consumed within sight of the towering 7-Up Clock and the 7-Up International Sandwich Gardens . . . 7-Up at its best.

We are . . . and every 7-Up Developer who attended the World's Fair is.

The 14,604 VIP guests of The Seven-Up Company and 7-Up Developers at the 7-Up International Lounge were the best investment we have ever made -- and the most vocal! Sophisticated businessmen, politicians and foreign travelers went out of their way to praise the hospitality they received at the International Lounge. It was a true oasis from the summer heat and the press of surging crowds, and was appreciated far beyond the actual investment the 7-Up hosts made in time, effort or money. How many relationships with key local, regional and national chain store accounts were cemented through a visit to the 7-Up Lounge would be difficult to measure -- but any estimated would probably prove to be low.

On October 17, 1965, the 7-Up International Sandwich Gardens and the New York World's Fair closed their doors. We have posted our banns before the world. Seven-Up is an international business leader -- one of the world's most widely distributed and best known products. We cannot back out of this contract.

Where the momentum of the World's Fair will carry us lies with the future. But the image of 7-Up will be bigger and brighter because of it.