- Ribena is an English origin brand of blackcurrant-based uncarbonated and carbonated soft drink and fruit drink concentrate that until 2013 was produced by GlaxoSmithKline
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Ribena facts
- The brand originally had a strong reputation as a healthy product for children, stemming from its distribution to children as a vitamin C supplement during World War II by the British government
- Beecham (a company that has been part of GSK since 2000) bought the brand in 1955 and developed many soft drink versions
- A series of scandals in the 2000s, concerning vitamin C levels, sugar levels, and the amounts of actual fruit in some of the brands, damaged its reputation as a healthy product
- By 2013 the brand was widely seen as being similar to other soft drinks
- In 2013 annual worldwide sales were around £500 million
- That year, GSK sold Ribena and another consumer line, Lucozade, to the Japanese multinational Suntory for £1
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