::ETEHAD AFGHAN GROUP::

Name:	Etehad Afghan Group (EAG)
Type:	Private
Foundation:	1983
Founder:	Atequllah Ahmady

      Etehad Afghan Group established in 1983 in Afghanistan and also one branch was established in Dubai 1996. Etehad Afghan Group deals with various businesses like; transport, money exchange, construction, plastic factory, beverages factory and cake factory in various countries like USA, Afghanistan, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, UAE, Iran and Pakistan.

      Mr. Ahmady established a beverages factory in the year 2005 in Kandahar province Afghanistan. The company is producing its productions under the brand name Double cola which is an American based company’s brand.

      This company is registered with the ministry of commerce as well as AISA (Afghan Investment Support Agency) Afghanistan.

Our vision

      We as a legal business would prefer to increase the standard of living of Afghanistan’s people.

Our mission

      For the prosperity of all people, we are enthusiastic to help them in terms of employment and producing of safe and standardized products. We intend to build the nation. We work hard to become a reliable leader of the beverages industry in Afghanistan. We are trying to extend our business to all provinces of Afghanistan.

      Double Cola is a regionally manufactured U.S. brand of soft drink, predominantly distributed east of the Mississippi River, and available in select international markets. The Double Cola Company is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was purchased in 1980 by K.J. International, Inc., of London, England, from Canadian firm Pop Shops International, which acquired it from a consortium of private investors and remains wholly privately held. The company was originally founded in 1922, primarily to market "Double Orange" and "Good Grape", now called "Jumbo Orange" and "Jumbo Grape". The Double Cola product was developed in 1933 and soon became the company's flagship product and the company was renamed for it shortly afterward. It was soon followed by "Double-Dry" ginger ale. In 1956, the company developed Ski, which is comparable to Mountain Dew or Mello Yello. Bottlers were formerly small, community-based affiliated operations, as were many other brands of soft drinks. Today much of the production is bottled in Huntsville, Alabama.

      Marketing It was formerly available in a somewhat-wider area of the South. Yet Double Cola is a distinctive part of culture in Southern Indiana, especially around Evansville. It was once marketed as a lower-cost alternative to Coca-Cola and other soft drinks, but Double Cola is now marketed as a premium brand in that area, with the same or higher price than Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola.[citation needed] The company hopes to continue re-entry in all of its former U.S. markets, and expand into the Midwest, in the near future.[citation needed] Diet versions of both Double Cola and Ski have been developed in recent years, as has Cherry Ski, which tastes like Mountain Dew Code Red and was developed several years before. The "Jumbo" line of fruit-flavored drinks has been expanded to include peach, strawberry, pineapple, fruit punch, root beer, and blue creme soda. Some of these drinks are available only in very limited areas. Speculation that expansion to Middle Eastern markets was at least in part a chance to exploit the company's low profile and consequent lack of political connotations now inherent in the Coke–Pepsi struggle. Though the Double Cola company's international sales are not as large as Coke or Pepsi, their presence in South Asia, South America, the Middle East and consumption in 17 nations comprises their international market. Their two other brands, Oranta orange drink and Chaser lemon-lime drink, are available only in the international markets, and represent the extent of the international product line other than Double Cola itself.