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{{Short description|Brand of soft drink}}
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{{Infobox brand
| name           = Teem
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| image          =Teem contemporary logo.png 
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| caption        =Teem logo
| producttype    = [[Lemon-lime drink]]
| currentowner   = [[PepsiCo.]]
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| country        = Mainly Middle East & Africa 
| introduced     = {{end date and age|1959|04|10}}
| discontinued   = {{end date and age|1984}} (U.S.) {{refn|That year discontinued in the U.S.; 1990s in some other markets, still produced in some countries.<ref name=cuci/>|group=note|name=still}}
| related        = [[Sprite (drink)|Sprite]], [[7-Up]], [[Slice (drink)|Slice]], [[Sierra Mist]], [[Starry (drink)|Starry]]
| markets        = Worldwide (majority in [[Africa]], [[Indian Subcontinent]], & [[Latin America]])
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'''Teem''' is a brand of carbonated [[soft drink]] introduced by [[PepsiCo]] in 1959 as a [[Lemon-lime drink|lemon-lime]]-flavored competitor of [[7 Up]]. It was discontinued and delisted in the US in 1984.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Teem is no longer available in most of the world, however Uruguay, and some countries in African and Asian regions produce a Teem branded cola under their manufacturing plants.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

== Overview ==
In the pre-planning stages, Teem was known as "Duet"; however, due to a potential trademark 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 introduced 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 [[Slice (drink)|Slice]] was introduced to replace Teem,<ref>[https://retroist.com/teem-soda-was-delicious/ Teem Soda was Delicious] on Retroist, 3 Feb 2011</ref> though it was still available at some soda fountains into the 1990s. Later, [[Sierra Mist]], and then [[Starry (drink)|Starry]], became Pepsi's lemon-lime soda offerings in the US.

By the 1990s, Teem was available almost all over the country{{Clarify|reason=Which country?|date=January 2023}}. However, in [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], and several other countries Teem is almost absent and replaced with [[Mirinda]] lemon lime or their respective national brands as in South Korea by [[Lotte Corporation|Lotte]] under the name [[Chilsung Cider]], in Japan by [[Asahi Soft Drinks]] under the name [[Mitsuya Cider]], and in [[Turkey]] by [[Tamek]] under the name [[Fruko]] which companies are close associates of PepsiCo. Teem remains on sale today in Pakistan, Brazil, Uruguay, Honduras, Nepal, Nigeria, India, 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 [[Altria|Philip Morris]]. Pepsi has a lemon lime soda monopoly in several countries by selling 7up and Teem together.<ref name=cuci>[https://www.cucinare.tv/2021/03/05/gaseosas-retro-las-bebidas-que-fueron-furor-y-hoy-son-un-recuerdo-para-los-mas-nostalgicos/ Gaseosas retro: las bebidas que fueron furor y hoy son un recuerdo para los más nostálgicos] on Cucinare.tv, 5 Mar 2021</ref>

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[[Category:Products introduced in 1960]]
[[Category:Lemon-lime sodas]]
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