{"id":14571,"date":"2022-10-24T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/co-founder-and-owner-of-red-bull-dies-at-78"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:40:04","slug":"co-founder-and-owner-of-red-bull-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/co-founder-and-owner-of-red-bull-dies-at-78","title":{"rendered":"Co-founder and owner of Red Bull dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>The co-founder and owner of Red Bull, Dietrich Mateschitz, died at the age of 78, last Saturday, 22, of this month, after a prolonged illness.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If there is Red Bull today, a lot is owed to the entrepreneur, Dietrich Mateschitz, who on a trip to Thailand found a type of business that would become a gold mine for him, the energy drinks business.<\/p>\n<p>According to the explanation of the website Black-Buddha, the Thai drink had the name of Krating Daeng, which translated literally in English means &#8220;Red Bull&#8221;, it was in 1982 when the Austrian noticed that after drinking the soda it became cured from jet lag, which is characterized by affecting sleep patterns, according to medical experts.<\/p>\n<p>The same source says that Dietrich saw that product had an effect, so he started thinking about recreating a similar drink with the help of the creator of the Thai brand, Chaleo Yoovidhya.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what happened, with a formula that would later be adapted not to refresh rural workers as Krating Daeng was originally conceived, but to please the palate of Westerners.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, Red Bull was launched, a partnership that earned both partners a multi-million dollar business, which is spread across 172 countries and sells almost 10 billion cans of soda a year, in addition to becoming a related brand with extreme sports and with football and motor sports, the best known case being that of F1, which won the constructors&#8217; world championship last Sunday and was able to honor its founder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. 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