(AP) - Leonard Marsh, the co-founder of the Snapple beverage brand, has died at age 80. The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. of Plano, Texas, which now owns Snapple, on Thursday confirmed Marsh's death.

If the secret sauce in Snapple’s decades-long overnight success story was “quirky marketing and bold flavors,” as the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Miller puts it, its saucier was Leonard Marsh, who ...