Jones Soda in Canada
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I was looking through the JSDA 2007 Annual Report, and I found something interesting on page F-24 (the last page in the report). According to this page, 2007 sales in the United States were 33,949,000. It also stated that sales in Canada were $5,393,000 for 2007.
According to Wikipedia, the United States has a population of 304,618,000 and Canada has a population of 33,320,300. You can find these statistics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou…
Using this data, we can find that the per capita sales of JSDA in the United States were 11.14 cents. In Canada, the per capita sales of JSDA were 16.19 cents.
I find it interesting that a company that is based in the US would have per capita sales in Canada that are 45.33% higher than their home operating country.
The greater Vancouver BC area does have a population of 2,249,725 ( http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/data/pop/po… This represents 6.75% of Canada’s population. It is possible that JSDA is doing the majority of their selling here since it is so close to Seattle.
As a comparison, the largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States is New York City with 18,815,988 people ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat… This represents about 6.18% of the total US population.
Anyway, I thought this was some pretty interesting information that I hadn’t seem brought up on these boards before. It would be interesting to hear what sort of explanations other people have for this.