A&W Cream Soda is a cream soda carbonated soft drink introduced by A&W Root Beer in 1986. A&W was established in 1922 by Frank Wright and Roy Allen. The first product they created was A&W Root Beer. It was not until 1986 that A&W came out with A&W Cream Soda and A&W Diet Cream Soda. Although cream soda had been created in 1852 by E.M. Sheldon, A&W was one of the first American companies to make it commercially. In 1995, A&W Cadbury Schweppes purchased the Dr Pepper/Seven-Up Company, which made A&W a part of the Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. This acquisition put A&W within the same company as the top soda brand companies and made A&W Cream Soda the top brand in cream sodas.