ASA bans press ad for energy drink

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a press ad for energy drink Club Energise, which uses the strapline: ‘Fuelling the passion. Rehydrates 7 times faster than water’, following a complaint from rival GlaxoSmithKline, which owns Lucozade.

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