On 10/19/04 7:53 AM, "John Connolly, Aircooled.Net" <john@AIRCOOLED.NET> wrote: > heres my favorite. > > A city in Japan in the 60s renamed itself "USA", which they proudly > displayed on boxes destined for the United States, when Japanese > manufacturing started to take off. "Made in USA" was completely true, but > very misleading. LOL > > John > Aircooled.Net Inc. > > I was in high school at that time and it was used in one of the classes to show marketing strategies. The japanese gvt took offense to that companies strategy and probably played more at the relabeling afterwards than the US with no real system in place did. At that time is when a company there was exporting heads for bugs to the US as well, but they were in boxes reading US. A US company had contracted them and was boxing them as if they were made in USA. Boy were they crap. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• jimt Planned insanity is best. Remember that sanity is optional. http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info) http://www.westydriver.com |
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