Who can I contact regarding a Snapple endorsement / sponsorship for a touring UK band?

July 4, 2011 9:26 AM

Who can I contact regarding a Snapple endorsement / sponsorship for a touring UK band? I have searched the internet for an e-mail address or phone number to no avail. Any help much appreciated. Thank you!
posted by FuckingAwesome to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Are you trying to set one up? I would imagine their PR would be the first place to go - if you can tell us the band I may know someone who knows where to start. Tour sponsorship is less common over here but it does occasionally happen. Not sure what you mean here by 'endorsement', though - I understand this to be more of a personal recommendation by the band rather than their tour being sponsored, which is a different thing.

(Though I wasn't aware you could even get Snapple over here.)
posted by mippy at 9:40 AM on July 4, 2011

There seems to be a Grants/Sponsorship page at the Dr Pepper/Snapple Group website: http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/contact/
posted by Magnakai at 9:42 AM on July 4, 2011

Response by poster: @Magnakai, that form is only for the US/Canada/Mexico.

@mippy Basically we want to get some free Snapple in exchange for promoting it at the shows / festivals we're playing. The band is Last Witness (http://www.facebook.com/LastWitnessUK)
posted by FuckingAwesome at 9:58 AM on July 4, 2011

My googling leads me to suspect that it isn't officially distributed in the UK anymore. However, if you do see a bottle, look at the back and see what it says. I'm pretty sure I still see it in central London from time to time. Then get in touch with the distributors or bottlers.

I helped someone contact breweries for free beer at a film festival, and we ended up calling tons of companies all over the place. Tons of resounding "no"s, and then one "yeah sure" and we had about 4 times as many crates as we needed!
posted by Magnakai at 10:42 AM on July 4, 2011

Snapple is owned by Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages ( now owned by Kraft), which is represented by Ruder Finn in the US. I don't think it's distributed in the UK, but you could try Kraft UK.
posted by Ideefixe at 12:52 PM on July 4, 2011