Industry Drink Brands Bai5 | Founder Ben Weiss Website www.drinkbai.com | |
Founded 2009 in Princeton, New Jersey Parent Dr Pepper Snapple Group | ||
Bai Brands is a beverage company founded in 2009 in Princeton, New Jersey. Its flagship product is Bai5. In 2015, it launched a brand of water bottles called Bai Antiwater. On November 22, 2016 it was announced that Dr Pepper Snapple Bottling Group had made a cash purchase of Bai Brands for $1.7 billion. On February 5th, 2017 Bai aired their first national commercial during Super Bowl LI due to the success that they had with the regional commercial shown in the previous year's Super Bowl. They spent an estimated 5 million dollars on the ad that also featured Justin Timberlake (the company's Chief Flavor Officer) and Christopher Walken.
Antioxidants lawsuit
A false advertising class action lawsuit was filed against Bai Brands on May 6, 2014. The lawsuit alleges that Bai Brands made misleading claims about the amount of antioxidants in its Bai5 Antioxidant Infusion drinks. On July 13, 2015, a federal judge in California allowed the plaintiffs to move forward with a portion of the lawsuit.