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Lucozade

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About

Lucozade is a British soft-drink brand created in Newcastle in 1927 by the pharmacist William Walker Hunter, who sold it as Glucozade; the Beecham Group bought the business in 1938 and sold the drink as Lucozade from then on.[1] A glucose and water solution, it was sold mainly through pharmacies as a drink for the sick until it was rebranded in 1978 as a "pick me up" and in 1983 as a sports and energy drink in a PET bottle, after which British sales tripled to almost 75 million pounds between 1984 and 1989.[1] Beecham became SmithKline Beecham in 1989 and GlaxoSmithKline in 2000, which sold Lucozade and Ribena to Suntory in September 2013 for 1.35 billion pounds; the British company for the brands is Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited.[1][2] The brand's current ranges are Energy, Sport, Alert and Zero.[3]

Product families

Products (1)

Relations

  • Owned by GSK until 2013-09[1] sourced
    GlaxoSmithKline, successor of Beecham, held the brand until it sold Lucozade and Ribena to Suntory in September 2013 for 1.35 billion pounds.
  • Owned by Lucozade Ribena Suntory since 2013-09[1] sourced
    Suntory's British company for the two brands; Companies House shows it incorporated on 10 July 2013, weeks before the sale completed.

Also known as

  • Glucozade en 1927–1938

References

  1. ↑ Wikipedia: Lucozade Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-14. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
  2. ↑ Companies House: Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited (08603549) Companies House. registry. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 08603549.
  3. ↑ Lucozade: official home of the UK's Lucozade soft drinks brand Lucozade Ribena Suntory. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-14.
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