Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Dubuque is the local distributor of Pepsi Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and other Pepsi-Cola brand soft drinks as well as Lipton teas, Dole juices, Tropicana fruit drinks and Aquafina and Klarbrunn drinking waters. The company operates out of one warehouse located on Highway 52 North in Dubuque, Iowa servicing an area which includes Clayton, Dubuque, and Jackson counties in Iowa, JoDaviess county in Illinois, and Grant, Lafayette, and a portion of Iowa County in Wisconsin. The company employs approximately fifty people and has a delivery and service fleet of about thirty vehicles.
The Company is an independently owned company and is the exclusive franchisee of PepsiCo, Inc. within its area of operations. It has been operated by the Gantz family for four generations. Both the Company and the Gantz family have a strong sense of community, and family members serve on the boards of various civic and charitable organizations in the community.