This affordable soft drink, renamed Kool-Aid, stirred up a lot of business with kids then, and still to this day. What once started with only six flavors, has ballooned to over 20 on shelves today.

In the 1990s, colorful juice-based drinks marketed to children were a big deal. It's a sector pioneered by Kool-Aid decades earlier, but by the final years of the 20th century, kids eschewed ...