Teem is a brand of

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-flavored soft drink produced by The Pepsi-Cola Company. It was introduced in 1959 as Pepsi's answer to

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and Sprite.

Overview

In the pre-planning stages, Teem was known as “Duet”, however due to a potential copyright dispute with Swift’s, a food manufacturer with a margarine carrying the same brand, the name was changed before marketing could begin. On April 10, 1959, three Pepsi-Cola representatives from Chicago, New York, and San Francisco converged on St. Joseph, Missouri to give the public the first taste of the new drink, as the city was chosen for Teem’s primary distribution market before being shipped elsewhere. Three days later, on the following Monday, advertisements cropped up in area newspapers advertising the drink as being for sale in stores. Teem was sold in the United States and Canada until it was discontinued in 1984 due to declining sales. Lemon-Lime

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on Retroist, 3 Feb 2011 though it was still available at some soda fountains into the 1990s. Later,

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, and then Starry, became Pepsi's lemon-lime soda offerings in the US. By the 1990s, Teem was available almost all over the country. However, in Japan,

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, and several other countries Teem is almost absent and replaced with

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lemon lime. Teem remains on sale today in Brazil, Uruguay, Honduras, Nepal, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and South Africa; it survived into the 1990s in other markets, too, before Pepsi authorized vendors to replace it with rival brand 7up due to the sale of 7up International (excluding the US) to Pepsi by

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. Pepsi has a lemon lime soda monopoly in several countries by selling 7up and Teem together.Gaseosas retro: las bebidas que fueron furor y hoy son un recuerdo para los más nostálgicos
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Products introduced in 1960 Lemon-lime sodas PepsiCo brands PepsiCo soft drinks 1984 disestablishments in the United States {{Soft-drink-stub