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Mark Ritson: Coke is smart to simplify its can designs, but that won’t save it from decline

on Apr 25, 2016 | 0 comments

By Mark Ritson

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It’s very hard to launch any kind of logo redesign and not look stupidly superficial. To the credit of Coca-Cola and its global team of executives they almost got away with it last week. Repeated references to the company’s ‘One Brand’ strategy and constant mentions of Coke’s long and venerated heritage made it clear that this was a seriously important move. Coke’s Q1 global sales, also announced last week, continue to frighten investors so the company needed to something, anything, to allay their fears.

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Source: Marketing Week