Zamzam (soft drink)

Iranian soda brand

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Zamzam Cola
A bottle of the cola variant of Zamzam^{[needs update]}
Type	Soft drink
Manufacturer	Zamzam Group
Country of origin	Iran
Introduced	1954; 70 years ago (1954) (as a subsidiary of Pepsi)
Variants	Cola, lemon, orange, lemonade, mango, mineral water
Related products	Mecca-Cola, Qibla Cola, Eram Cola, Parsi Cola, Cola Turka,
Website	zamzam.ir#home

Zamzam (Persian: زمزم, Zemzem, formerly Zamzam Cola) is a brand of soft drink produced in Iran by Zamzam Group. The director of the Zamzam Group is Ahmad-Haddad Moghaddam. Zamzam Group is owned by the Mostazafan Foundation.

History

Originally a subsidiary of Pepsi created in Iran in 1954 as the first Iranian carbonated soft drink producer owned by Habib Sabet. Following the Islamic revolution in 1979, the company was taken from its original owner without compensation and the name was changed to ZamZam.

Following the 2002 boycott of Coca-Cola by Saudi Arabia, Zamzam was unofficially dubbed the soft drink of the Hajj.^[1] The product's name is a reference to the Well of Zamzam in Mecca, which is one of the stops on the Islamic pilgrimage of the Hajj.^[2]

References

^ Islam Online- News Section Archived 15 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ Willard, Haley. "The World's Most Popular Sodas — That You've Never Heard of". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

Theodoulou, Michael; Bremner, Charles; McGrory, Daniel (11 October 2002). "Cola wars as Islam shuns the real thing". The Times. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
"Islamic cola 'selling well in Saudi'". BBC News. 21 August 2002. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2023.