1977 Beechams Hot Lemon commercial.

Beecham was a British pharmaceutical company. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Beecham, after having merged with SmithKline Beckman, merged with GlaxoWellcome to become GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

History

Beecham was the family business of Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), a chemist. He was the grandfather of the conductor also named Thomas Beecham (1879–1961). As a boy, he worked as a shepherd, selling herbal remedies as a sideline. He then started as a travelling salesman or peddler.

Their first product was Beecham’s Pills, a laxative, in 1842. Subsequent success enabled him to open a shop in Wigan in 1847.

Beecham opened its first factory in St. Helens, Lancashire, for the rapid production of medicines in 1859.^[1] Under Thomas’ son, Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848–1916), the business expanded, but remained a patent medicine company and engaged in little research.

Beecham bought companies for various products, adding the Lucozade glucose drink and Macleans to its product chain in 1938. By buying Brylcreem the following year, it added hair products for men.

In 1943, it decided to focus more on improving its research and built Beecham Research Laboratories. In 1945, the company was named Beecham Group Ltd.

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1978 advert for Topex Zit removal

Vicks Chloraseptic commercial from the 80′s

Ad for Resolve by Beecham 80′s

Advert for Rennie from the 80′s

BOOTS Christmas Commercial from 1985

Boots UK Limited, commercially known as Boots and previously known as The Boots Company is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Boots is also available in the Republic of Ireland, Norway and other territories. The company has been a subsidiary of Alliance Boots since 31 July 2006 after Boots Group plc merged with Alliance UniChem plc and combines the former Boots the Chemist Ltd and Boots Stores Ltd. Management of all staff was moved from Boots UK to Boots Management services on July 1, 2010

BiSoDol advert from 1983.

advert from 1984 for BiSoDol.

70′s advert for Cough Calmers.

90′s TUNES ad

Tunes is a brand of lozenge manufactured by The Wrigley Company in the UK. It is marketed as a cough sweet or anti-congestant lozenge, containing eucalyptus oil and menthol. It is a relative of the now discontinued Spangles brand, and shares the same packaging and dimensions of that brand. In the UK, Tunes no longer have the Spangles style packaging.

There was a memorable TV advertising campaign for the product with the slogan ‘Tunes help you breathe more easily’.  The commercials featured the actor Peter Cleall who would perfectly enunciate the word ‘Tunes’ after taking the anti-congestant.

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