Lucozade: version 1
Saved 2026-09-14 12:42 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Lucozade Energy Original 1 l** (GTIN 05000134040564) from the wanted queue, plus the five stubs it needed. **Identity.** The lookup found the barcode in no catalogue but Open Food Facts, whos. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# Lucozade <!--brand-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Lucozade
website: https://www.lucozade.com/
founded: 1938
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------- | ------ | ------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/gsk | | | 2013-09 | true | sourced | ^wikipedia | 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 | company/lucozade-ribena-suntory | | 2013-09 | | | sourced | ^wikipedia | Suntory's British company for the two brands; Companies House shows it incorporated on 10 July 2013, weeks before the sale completed. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Glucozade | name | en | 1927 | 1938 |
| Lucozade Energy | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucozade | Wikipedia: Lucozade | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| lucozade | https://www.lucozade.com/ | Lucozade: official home of the UK's Lucozade soft drinks brand | 2026-09-14 | Lucozade Ribena Suntory | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| ch-lrs | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08603549 | Companies House: Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited (08603549) | 2026-09-14 | Companies House | registry | | 08603549 | | | | |
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## About <!--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.[^wikipedia] 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.[^wikipedia] 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.[^wikipedia][^ch-lrs] The brand's current ranges are Energy, Sport, Alert and Zero.[^lucozade]
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