Top Deck (drink)

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Top Deck was a low alcohol shandy drink available in a variety of flavours and marketed to children in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1980s. [1] It was a brand of the Beecham Group until 1986 when it was sold along with the more popular brand Tango, along with the UK franchises for Pepsi and 7-Up, to Britvic. [2]

Top Deck remained available until 2012. [3] [ better source needed ]

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References

  1. BBC News Vanished UK drink is toast of Caribbean, April 2007
  2. www.competition-commission.org.uk Archived 2008-07-29 at the Wayback Machine Carbonated drinks: a report on the supply by manufacturers of carbonated drinks in the United Kingdom, Chapter 8 para 8.51 Approved Food (archived)
  3. "Approved Food product page" . Retrieved 2021-09-03.