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===2000s Ribena===
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There were concerns in the 2000s about the sugar and vitamin content of [[Ribena]], a [[blackcurrant]]-based [[syrup]] and [[soft drink]] owned by GSK until 2013. Produced in England by H.W. Carter & Co from the 1930s, the company's unbranded syrup was distributed to children as a source of [[vitamin C]] during World War II, which gave the drink a reputation as good for health. [[Beecham Group|Beecham]] bought H. W. Carter in 1955.<ref>Oliver Thring, [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/sep/07/consider-squash-cordial "Consider squash and cordial"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510110645/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/sep/07/consider-squash-cordial |date=10 May 2017 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 7 September 2010.{{pb}}
[http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Frank-Vernon-thank-Ribena/story-19804329-detail/story.html "We have Frank and Vernon to thank for Ribena"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418215501/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Frank-Vernon-thank-Ribena/story-19804329-detail/story.html |date=18 April 2015 }}, ''The Bristol Post'', 17 September 2013.</ref>

In 2001, the British [[Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom)|Advertising Standards Authority]] (ASA) required GSK to withdraw its claim that Ribena Toothkind, a lower-sugar variety, did not encourage tooth decay. A company poster showed bottles of Toothkind in place of the bristles on a toothbrush. The ASA's ruling was upheld by the High Court.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gregoriadis |first=Linus |date=18 January 2001 |title=Makers of Ribena lose fight over anti-decay claims |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1318417/Makers-of-Ribena-lose-fight-over-anti-decay-claims.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324132820/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1318417/Makers-of-Ribena-lose-fight-over-anti-decay-claims.html |archive-date=24 March 2010 |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> In 2007, GSK was fined US$217,000 in New Zealand over its claim that ready-to-drink Ribena contained high levels of vitamin C, after two schoolgirls showed it contained no detectable vitamin C.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431253 |title=Judge orders Ribena to fess up |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |last=Eames |first=David |date=28 March 2007 |access-date=15 April 2018 |archive-date=18 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618025623/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431253 |url-status=live }}{{pb}}
Tony Jaques, [http://issueoutcomes.publishpath.com/Websites/issueoutcomes/Images/Ribena%20icon%20stumbles%20CCIJ.pdf "When an Icon Stumbles – The Ribena Issue Mismanaged"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044727/http://issueoutcomes.publishpath.com/Websites/issueoutcomes/Images/Ribena%20icon%20stumbles%20CCIJ.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }}, ''Corporate Communications: An International Journal'', 13(4), 2008, pp.&nbsp;394–406.{{pb}}
Michael Regester, Judy Larkin, ''Risk Issues and Crisis Management in Public Relations'', Kogan Page Publishers, 2008, p.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=MIIx4NVTz6EC&pg=PA67 67ff].</ref> In 2013, GSK sold Ribena and another drink, [[Lucozade]], to the Japanese multinational [[Suntory]] for £1.35{{nbsp}}billion.<ref name="Monaghan"/>