

In September 2014, following a Facebook campaign by consumers, The Coca-Cola Company reintroduced the soft drink Surge, leading to speculation in the public and amongst media about the return of Crystal Pepsi. Revival and rereleases Ĭanadian label of a Crystal Pepsi 20 oz. Once you have a great idea and you blow it, you don't get a chance to resurrect it. It would have been nice if I'd made sure the product tasted good. A lot of times as a leader you think, "They don't get it they don't see my vision." People were saying we should stop and address some issues along the way, and they were right. I still think it's the best idea I ever had, and the worst executed. In a December 2007 interview, he stated this: Novak is credited with introducing the Crystal Pepsi concept. On August 22, 2008, PepsiCo filed for trademarks on the product names "Pepsi Clear" and "Diet Pepsi Clear". In 2005, a new clear Pepsi was sold in Mexico as Pepsi Clear for a limited time. Full-sized sample bottles were distributed with the Sunday paper deliveries such as the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. This commercial was parodied by Saturday Night Live with their "Crystal Gravy" commercial.
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A series of television advertisements featuring Van Halen's hit song " Right Now" premiered on national television on January 31, 1993, during Super Bowl XXVII. Both of them were dead within six months." Marketing Ī large marketing campaign was launched, for which the company invented the world's first photo-realistic, computer-generated bus wrap printing. Zyman said "Pepsi spent an enormous amount of money on the brand and, regardless, we killed it. The "born to die" strategy included using the poor-performing Tab brand rather than Coke, labeling the product as a "sugar free" diet drink to confuse consumers into thinking Crystal Pepsi had no sugar, and marketing the product as if it were "medicinal". Īccording to Coca-Cola's chief marketing officer, Sergio Zyman, Tab Clear was an intentional "kamikaze" effort to create an unpopular beverage that was positioned as an analogue of Crystal Pepsi in order to "kill both in the process". Pepsi returned several months later with a reformulated citrus-cola hybrid called Crystal From Pepsi, but that was short-lived as well. īy late 1993, Pepsi pulled the drink off the market, and the final batches were delivered to retailers during the first few months of 1994. Eisenhower and the Soviet Union in the 1940s, to disguise the American beverage as vodka, and was named White Coke. That company's previous clear cola had been a secret one-off made as a particular political favor between President Dwight D. Coca-Cola followed suit by launching Tab Clear on December 14, 1992. soft drink sales, approximately $474 million.
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In its first year, Crystal Pepsi captured a full percentage point of U.S. Pleased with the results, PepsiCo began to sell the cola nationwide in December of that year. On April 13, 1992, PepsiCo introduced Crystal Pepsi to test markets in Denver, Sacramento, Dallas, Providence, and Grand Rapids, and the product generated a positive response. Its marketing slogan was "You've never seen a taste like this". Other clear colas had already been released outside of Pepsi, and Crystal Pepsi was marketed as another caffeine-free "clear alternative" to normal colas. This began with the remake of Ivory soap, whose marketing slogan had already been "99 and 44/100 percent pure", adapted from its classic milky solution. In the early 1990s, a marketing fad called the Clear Craze equated clarity with purity. Its flavor is greatly similar to standard Pepsi, with the absence of caramel color allegedly making the drink less "acidic" tasting. Crystal Pepsi is notable for a fanatical revival by the public decades later, leading to a corporate response with these re-releases. The product's original market life was admittedly sabotaged by competitor Coca-Cola, in a "kamikaze" plan to create and market the diet soda Tab Clear as its competitor to Crystal Pepsi, in an attempt to mislead the public into believing that Crystal Pepsi was a diet soda. It was briefly sold in the United Kingdom and Australia. The United States and Canada received it from 1992 to 1994, with brief re-releases throughout the mid-2010s. It was first sold in Europe in the early 1990s. test markets) ġ994 27 years ago ( 1994) (then reintroduced)Ĭrystal Pepsi is a soft drink made by PepsiCo.
