Archive for July 22nd, 2009

Psychology of Tropicana Re-Branding Failure

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

tropicana-again-2Back in February we wrote about the failure Pepsi company ran into while re-branding their orange juice line, Tropicana. Today there was an unveiling of an updated redesign that is much more faithful to the original design that consumers rebelled so strongly to have back for their Trop50 product.

One of the interesting points that wasn’t mentioned in our previous post was the effect that the current economic situation might have had on this re-branding effort. It was referenced to during a CNN interview back in February and felt its premise relevant to share here.

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