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- <text id=91TT1568>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: Business Notes:Advertising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- Is That All There Is?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The controversy was more familiar to Americans than the
- Lincoln-Douglas debates. For 17 years, argumentative ex-athletes
- wrestled with the weighty question of whether they drank Miller
- Lite beer because it "Tastes great!" or is "Less filling!" The
- ad campaign created a vast demand for low-calorie brews at a
- time when Miller Lite was virtually the only supply--in 1975
- it constituted 96% of light-beer sales. However, the 1980s
- produced challenges from Coors Light and Bud Light, which
- drained Miller's share to 33%.
- </p>
- <p> Miller Lite will counterattack this week by abandoning the
- taste-vs.-calories contretemps in favor of a new slogan. "It's
- It. And That's That," goes the Zen-like outpouring of pronouns.
- The campaign is the creation of Chicago's Leo Burnett agency,
- which landed the $110 million Lite account in March, muscling
- aside Manhattan's Backer Spielvogel Bates. The new theme,
- pitched particularly to women and younger drinkers, seems to
- imply that Lite has supplanted traditional brew as the real
- thing. In one Lite-hearted spot, a delivery truck is seen losing
- the first and last letters of the product's name, leaving behind
- only "it."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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