date:Aug 18, 2014
s in 1989.
At the time South African-born Sacks, now a U.S. citizen, was working for executive recruiter Confidential Assignments in Orange County, California. Schlosberg, a U.K. citizen, was working for J. Bibby Sons, a British conglomerate.
The pair raised more than $5 million from friends and family, bought a publicly traded shell company and spent two years looking to purchase a business to operate.
Name Change
On advice of a banker, they decided to buy family-owned soda maker Hansen Na