a b "Irn-Bru signs Russian deal". BBC News. 29 January 2002. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016 . Retrieved 13 November 2021. Burke, Darren (February 2020). "Sheffield Irn-Bru factory to go green after striking wind power deal". Sheffield Star. Archived from the original on 8 February 2020 . Retrieved 13 November 2021. Ardbeg to release limited edition Anamorphic whisky 6. Coca-Cola is the number one-selling soft drink nearly everywhere in the world – except in Scotland, Iceland, Peru and the Middle East Graham Barr raises a glass beside a cake to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Irn-Bru company in Glasgow in August 1980. Picture: TSPL The tagline ‘Made in Scotland from girders’ was used to sell Irn-Bru for several years in the 1980s. The`fleet' was a common sight around the region, with many of the animals going on to become famous in their own right, and the giant Clydesdale Carnera (named after boxing champion Primo Carnera) becoming the most famous of all.

Rivets was an iron brew drink launched in 1994 [73] by Meri-Mate Ltd of Dundee as competition for A.G. Barr's popular Irn Bru soft drink. [74] [75] [76]In 2003, an Irn-Bru commercial which showed a midwife trying to entice a baby from its mother's womb during a difficult delivery sparked fifty complaints. Some saw it as upsetting to women who had suffered miscarriages. [57]

A Irn-Bru poster which featured a cow and the slogan "When I'm a burger I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru" attracted a record 700 complaints, while family values campaigners were outraged when an advert showed a young women in a bikini holding a can and saying: "I never knew four-and-a-half-inches could give so much pleasure."Are Irn-Bru supermarket budget-friendly dupes just as good as the real thing? giant". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 9 July 2022 . Retrieved 22 March 2023.

AG Barr to replace colourings in Irn-Bru". just-drinks. 28 January 2010. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013.

Donald, according to the BBCproclaimed: "I can recommend BARR's IRN BRU to all who wish to aspire to athletic fame, signed Donald Dinnie, All-round Champion Athlete of the World." Irn-Bru drinkers won't notice halved sugar content, claims AG Barr". The Guardian. 5 January 2018. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018 . Retrieved 8 January 2018. a b c d e Leishman, David (2017). " "Original and Best"? How Barr's Irn-Bru Became a Scottish Icon". Études écossaises. 19. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017 . Retrieved 28 September 2017– via OpenEdition. Barr, Robin R; Jephcott, Mark M (1 January 2001). Robert Barr 1875 to 2001. Macclesfield: AG Barr plc. ASIN B0012T6H4G. saw the introduction of Low Calorie Irn-Bru: this was re-launched in 1991 as Diet Irn-Bru and again in 2011 as Irn-Bru Sugar Free. The Irn-Bru 32 energy drink variant was launched in 2006.