Re: UKNM: The truth about the value of Coke's brand

[Lois Grayson]

You miss the point. Once a year for two months + the Western world is

bombarded by images of a childhood icon - an image which reaches a deep

place inside people's psyche - and in each case that icon is dressed in

Coke's brand colours. If you only consider brand associations to work at the

cognitive level then I'm surprised you do what you do for a living.


Sorry to be rude I'm in a truly terrible mood this morning


Lois

----- Original Message -----

From: Michael Reidy <

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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:27 AM

Subject: RE: UKNM: The truth about the value of Coke's brand



> The Coke Santa Claus illustration is interesting, but I'm not sure it

> illustrates brand-power in that neither Coke nor Father Christmas leads us

> immediately to think of the other (unless we're ad/marketing types!)

>

> Hitching on to existing images, occasions and traditions to establish

> something new is an ancient practice, notably (and successfully) carried

out

> by the world's major religions. I'm not sure they called it branding,

> however.

>

> MR

>

> Michael Reidy

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>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Lois Grayson [loisgdialstart [dot] net (mailto:loisgdialstart [dot] net)]

> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 12:54 AM

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: The truth about the value of

> Coke's brand

>

> Cynics might say that they no longer believe in branding (or

> Father

> Christmas) but that's just so much urban edge shit - a

> fashionable position

> assumed for effect rather than a deeply held opinion. Or so

> I reckon.

>

> Lois



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