Umm yes exactly detective!! Thats why i said i dont give two ****s. I was born and raised in georgia. I know who John pemberton is!!You do know that Sprite is a Cocacola company product... right? Most of the major soda brands are either owned by Cocacola, Pepsi, 7up, or the Dr.Pepper/Snapple group. An easy way to, for the most part, tell which soda brand is owned by which company is to see how the store shelves are organized; usually one company's brands are stacked side by side until the next company's brands start. This is why Sprite, Fanta, etc are nearly always stacked together; Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc are stacked together; 7up and A&W are stacked together; etc.