Our History

The company founder, Bill Fosdick, moved his family to the Grand Traverse area in 1988. He did so, with the purpose of starting his own soft drink company and with the idea of making a better quality of life to raise his four children.

By the end of the first year Bill had acquired two distributors, a local restaurant chain, and about twenty individual customers. Bill’s wife, Maureen, and their children have all worked in the family business since its inception. When the children were little, their favorite job was “taste testing”, which helped to develop the flavors that Bill uses now. Upon graduating from college with a business degree, Bill’s son, David, joined the business as his father’s partner, helping their business to expand.

Quality has always been at the foundation of Northwoods Soda, making it easy to offer a full money back guarantee on every product they manufacture.