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Welcome to Industry Focus, a podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host, Vincent Shen. Joining me today via Skype from Orlando, Florida is Motley Fool contributor, Dan Klein. Dan, great to have you back.

How are you? Hey Vince, how you hold it up? I'm holding up okay. It's a long day so far,

but I'm glad you'd come on and record one last show with me.

It's always a pleasure.

So, listeners, my time with the industry focus team will end with next week's show. I think I finally got my

tears under enough control to dig into Cura Dr Pepper, ticker KDP. So Cura Green Mountain and Dr. Pepper Snappell announced in early 2018 that they'd be joining forces

another huge deal for J-E-B Holdings, which is kind of pulling all the strings with its control of Kyrie, which is acquired in 2016,

not to mention the many other businesses that it has purchased over the years, like Pete's

coffee, Caribou coffee, and bigger chains like Crispy Kreme, Panera Bread and all-bon pen.

So in fact, since the Karag Dr Pepper deal announcement, the company has already scooped up

big red, a smaller soft drink brand, and then core nutrition, a premium

water company, that was a over 500 million dollar deal.

And I remember at the time of this deal announcement, Dan, that we were a little puzzled by the decision for these two companies to come together.

You're bringing a non-coffee beverage company into the fold, but Kirk Dr. Pepper is now the third largest beverage company in North America.

So there is some strength I think in safety in having that sort of scale.

So let's bring us up to speed Dan.

If you had to get to some of the core strengths or what has jumped out to you about this combined entity so far, what is it?

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