Hanes
John Wesley Hanes' brother Pleasant H. Hanes founded the P.H. Hanes Knitting Company in 1901. The brothers previously operated a tobacco manufacturing business, that they sold to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1900. The P.H. Hanes Knitting Company merged with Hanes Hosiery in 1965. The P.H. Hanes Knitting Company complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Consolidated Foods (later renamed Sara Lee) announced its purchase of Hanes in 1978.
Hank's Root Beer
Hank's Gourmet Beverages, the parent company behind Hank's Root Beer and many other critically acclaimed flavors, has a rich and colorful history that's inextricably tied to Philadelphia, the city that both founder Frank “Hank” Salvatore loved and served as the nation's birthplace for the Company's flagship product, root beer. Starting as a division of a larger family enterprise in 1995, nobody realized that the brand would ultimately help the company to ignite America's craft soda boom with the debut of its critically acclaimed line of gourmet sodas.