Local bars and restaurants raise a toast to Ale-8-One, which turns 90 this year
Ninety years ago, Kentuckian G.L. Wainscott tinkered with several ginger-based recipes until he settled on his favorite carbonated soft drink formula. On July 13, 1926, Ale-8-One was launched into the market, putting Wainscott and his town of Winchester, Ky., on the map for producing...
Ale-8-One: Entrepreneurial lessons from a century-old company
Ellen McGeeney knew she had landed in a different kind of company when her boss at family-owned soft drink maker Ale-8-One told her to generate a 50-year plan. She said Fielding A. Rogers, the great great nephew of founder G. L. Wainscott, also told...
Ale-8-One CEO Ellen McGeeney to keynote the next Venture Connectors Luncheon
The CEO of the company that makes the only soft drink invented in Kentucky still being sold will give the keynote at the Wednesday, Dec. 2, Venture Connectors Luncheon. Ellen McGeeney joined Ale-8-One in September 2013 as the first person outside the founding family to run day-to-day operations....
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February 20, 2019
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