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- Mar. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Marketing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- MARKETING
- A Coke by Any Other Name...</hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Coca-Cola has always been the world's most popular soda. But
- in 1985 its Atlanta-based makers decided to replace it with New
- Coke, a sweeter concoction designed to challenge perennial
- opponent Pepsi. New Coke became the marketing fiasco of the
- decade. Within three months, soft-drink sippers loyal to the
- old formula forced its return; it reappeared as Coca-Cola
- Classic. Since then New Coke's market share has shriveled. Last
- week, in an effort to resuscitate the comatose cola, the company
- announced plans to test market New Coke under a new name: Coke
- II.
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- <p> The campaign is the most blatant attempt yet to take on the
- Real Thing's rival. "Coke II will be directed at Pepsi
- drinkers," Coca-Cola spokesman Randy Donaldson admits. "It will
- offer them two things: real cola taste plus the sweetness of
- Pepsi." Coke II's packaging will even carry the red, white and
- blue colors familiar to Pepsi fanciers. Should Coke II succeed,
- market observers speculate that Coca-Cola Classic would be free
- to revert to its original name: Coca-Cola.
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