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A donkey event for Mercedes-Benz

Published by on oktober 20, 2005 at 10:50 f m

The big company didn’t listen to an unhappy costumer in China. He was creative and made an event, first he beat up his Mercedes-Benz then he pull it around with a donkey. The story got really big in media with covering photos and did cost the brand a lot.
If the company was ONE with this creative consumer he could pull Mercedes-Benz brand around in Asia – and build a storytelling story that would sell cars. Instead their brand did get associated with a donkey.
The common sense of the story: ONE costumer can cost a lot, especially if he is creative and now a donkey.

Case source: Swedish book “Att göra affärer i dagens Kina.”