Top 6 Failed Products From Major Brands

# Crystal Pepsi

Crystal Pepsi was a caffeine free soft drink made by Pepsi in Canada and the U.S. Introduced in the year 1992, it just stayed around for a year in these two countries and for much more shorter time in the Australia. It was introduced by the company to test the markets in Denver, Dallas and many more places which received quite good response.

Pleased with it, the Crystal pepsi was released which sold pretty well initially and but the sales gradually dropped drastically. Pepsi pulled the drink off the market and several months later came back with a reformulated citrus drink called Crystal From Pepsi, which short-lived in the market as well.  

# Life Savers Soda

Life savers is one of the most liked brands of candy famous for their ring shaped ones. Its range of mints and artificial fruit flavors are known for its distinctive packing in paper wrapped aluminum foils. The company focuses on the different flavors of the candies producing around 3 million a day. Candies being the prime focus of the Life Savers, it produced a candy flavored soda in the 1980’s which did not fare well on the sales records.

Even though the Life savers soda did well in the taste tests it was not well received by the consumers and according to the time website, a brand critic wrote that the brand name gave the impression of drinking liquid candy to the consumers.

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