# Teem

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Brand of soft drink

Not to be confused with [Team](/source/Team).

Teem Product type Lemon-lime drink Owner PepsiCo Country Mainly Middle East & Africa Introduced April 10, 1959 (1959-04-10) Discontinued 1984; 42 years ago (1984) (U.S. only) [note 1] Related brands Sprite, 7 Up (successor, internationally), Slice (successor), Sierra Mist, Starry Markets Worldwide (majority in Africa, Indian subcontinent, & Latin America)

**Teem**[2] is a [brand](/source/Brand) of carbonated [soft drink](/source/Soft_drink) introduced by [PepsiCo](/source/PepsiCo) in 1959 as a [lemon-lime](/source/Lemon-lime_drink)-flavored competitor of [7 Up](/source/7_Up). It was discontinued and delisted in the US in 1984, but it continues in use in Brazil and Uruguay.[1]

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.[1]

## 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](/source/St._Joseph%2C_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](/source/Slice_(drink)) was introduced to replace Teem,[3] though it was still available at some soda fountains into the 1990s. Later, [Sierra Mist](/source/Sierra_Mist), and then [Starry](/source/Starry_(drink)), became Pepsi's lemon-lime soda offerings in the US.

Teem remains on sale today[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] 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 7up due to the sale of the international rights of that brand to Pepsi by [Philip Morris](/source/Altria). Pepsi has a lemon-lime soda monopoly in several countries by selling 7up and Teem together.[1]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-still_2-0)** That year discontinued in the U.S.; 1990s in some other markets, still produced in some countries.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-cuci_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-cuci_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-cuci_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-cuci_1-3) [Gaseosas retro: las bebidas que fueron furor y hoy son un recuerdo para los más nostálgicos](https://www.cucinare.tv/2021/03/05/gaseosas-retro-las-bebidas-que-fueron-furor-y-hoy-son-un-recuerdo-para-los-mas-nostalgicos/) on Cucinare.tv, 5 Mar 2021

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["TEEM - Trademark Details"](https://trademarks.justia.com/972/69/teem-97269685.html). *[Justia](/source/Justia) Trademarks*. Retrieved February 24, 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Teem Soda was Delicious](https://retroist.com/teem-soda-was-delicious/) on Retroist, 3 Feb 2011

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