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Crox -- beauty is foot deep, but ugly goes right to the bone

Posted Jul 12th 2007 5:39PM by Tom Barlow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Bad News, Competitive Strategy, Crocs Inc (CROX)

I had a notion once to start a guerrilla marketing company, offering to destroy competing brands by dressing the ugliest, most loathsome people I could find in that competing brand's product.

Now, I don't mean to suggest that Dean Cain (Superboy) or G.W. Bush (Superpresidenter guy) fall into that category, but Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) has to be a little concerned when the brand shows up on C-list actors and unpopular politicians.

This caused me to jot down a list of Crocs-killers -- people who, by adopting the footwear, could trash the brand. In no particular order --

Kim Il Jong
Larry King
Ziggy
Mike Tyson
Osama bin Laden (only in U.S., however)
Draco Malfoy
Joan Rivers
Al Gore
Tom Barlow (if you knew me, you'd understand.)

There's a reason trendy nightclubs have doormen to weed out us dweebs. Perhaps Crocs should consider the same.

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With Titanic hopes, Warner Bros. announces Clash of the Titans remake

Posted May 1st 2006 11:29AM by Anne Metz (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and Services, Industry, Time Warner (TWX)

Former Latin students of the world:

Salvete! I have good news!

No, your Latin teacher didn't actually give herself a lethal paper cut on your shoddy translation of Virgil's Aeneid. And, no, your local school board didn't finally decide that Latin was, in fact, "dead enough" to give up on trying to teach it.

But it's almost as good. Earlier today, Warner Bros. movie studio, a unit of Time Warner, announced plans to remake the old Latin class stand-by Clash of the Titans. The original feature film, which follows the codpiece-wearing hero, Perseus, as he fights monsters and Medusa, to save the beautiful Princess Andromeda. Andromeda, in typical princess style, spends most of the movie chained up to a rock, waiting to be rescued by the divinely chartered hero.

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