{"id":91459,"date":"2020-10-16T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/coca-cola-is-getting-rid-of-tab-after-nearly-60-years\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:38:10","slug":"coca-cola-is-getting-rid-of-tab-after-nearly-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/coca-cola-is-getting-rid-of-tab-after-nearly-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Coca-Cola is getting rid of Tab after nearly 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Coca-Cola is getting rid of Tab after nearly 60 years<\/strong>”
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\n Coca-Cola is finally getting rid of Tab, the pioneering diet soda that kept a small but diehard fanbase for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

The move is part of the beverage giant\u2019s efforts to slim down its portfolio of more than 500 brands to focus on products with the most potential for growth, Coke announced<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n

Coke rolled out Tab in 1963 as its first foray into the budding diet soda market. The saccharin-sweetened drink \u2014 which Coke promoted as the soda \u201cfor beautiful people\u201d in a 1973 ad<\/a> \u2014 went on to become a cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Tab grew to be the leading diet soda by 1980 but fell by the wayside after Diet Coke debuted in 1982, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. However, there were reportedly enough \u201cTabaholics\u201d who loved its polarizing, metallic taste that Coca-Cola continued to produce it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s partly because Tab fans were notoriously aggressive about lobbying for the drink\u2019s survival, calling Coca-Cola headquarters and signing petitions if their soda wasn\u2019t available locally<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure those who want Tab get Tab,\u201d Douglas Daft, Coca-Cola\u2019s then-chairman and chief executive, said in 2001, when Tab\u2019s market share had fallen below 1 percent. \u201cIt shows you care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year,, Tab accounted for just 0.1 percent of the world\u2019s $22 billion in diet cola sales and the drink hasn\u2019t been big enough for Coke to spend any money marketing it since 2008, the Journal reported. The top-selling diet sodas are Diet Coke, with a 35-percent market share, and Coke Zero, with 22 percent, according to Euromonitor International.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re forever grateful to Tab for paving the way for the diets and lights category, and to the legion of Tab lovers who have embraced the brand for nearly six decades,\u201d Kerri Kopp, Coca-Cola North America\u2019s group director for Diet Coke, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Tab\u2019s demise is part of Coke\u2019s plans to streamline its beverage offerings that were accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, the company said. Discontinuing flailing brands frees up money to invest in growing labels like Minute Maid and roll out new products such as the recently announced Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, according to Coke.<\/p>\n

Other drinks being put out to pasture by Dec. 31 include Zico coconut water, Diet Coke Feisty Cherry and regional names such as <\/span>Delaware Punch and Northern Neck Ginger Ale. Earlier this year, Coke closed its Odwalla juice and smoothie business.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about continuing to follow the consumer and being very intentional in deciding which of our brands are most deserving of our investments and resources, and also taking the tough but important steps to identify those products that are losing relevance and therefore should exit the portfolio,\u201d Cath Coetzer, Coke\u2019s global head of innovation and marketing operations, said in a statement.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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