Dr Pepper/Seven Up Beverage Sales S-4 Registration of securities issued in business combination transactions

Exhibit 3.116

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

GROUX DISTRIBUTION, INC.

I

     The name of this corporation is GROUX DISTRIBUTION, INC.

II

     The purpose of this corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the California General Corporation Law other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.

III

     The name and address in the State of California of this corporation’s initial agent for service of process is:

S. Lee Hancock
18400 Von Karman, Fourth Floor
Irvine, California 92715-1597

IV

     This corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock; and the total number of shares which this corporation is authorized to issue is one hundred thousand (100,000).

V

     The liability of the directors of this corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law.

VI

     This corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of agents, as that term is defined in Section 317

of the California General Corporation Law, in excess of that expressly permitted by said Section 317, for breach of duty to the corporation and its shareholders, under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, to the fullest extent such indemnification may be authorized hereby pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 204 of the California General Corporation Law.

DATED: January 15, 1990

/s/ S. LEE HANCOCK                              
S. LEE HANCOCK Incorporator

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