You know the Coke Zero ad campaign where the brand managers on Coke Classic want to sue the Coke Zero team for taste infringement? Strange as it may seem, a similar scenario is now playing itself out for real thanks to internal squabbling at KFC over the brand’s advertising that touts grilled chicken instead of fried.
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According to Bloomberg, the dispute concerns who’s in charge of setting KFC’s advertising policy, Roger Eaton, KFC’s president and chief concept officer since 2008 or the KFC National Council, a separate corporation composed of franchise and company members.
“Eaton appears to believe that the future of KFC lies with grilled chicken rather than fried” and recent proposals to the council “have been heavily, if not exclusively, lopsided towards grilled chicken,” according to the complaint, made public in Delaware Chancery Court today.
“This is a baseless lawsuit” and Yum “fully expects to win the suit and minimize the waste of time and money spent,” said Yum spokesman Jonathan Blum in an e-mailed statement. He said the new Kentucky Grilled Chicken will generate almost $1 billion in annual sales.
it is funny that so many have to pass the bar exam to work in advertising today. To think a junior college dropout sees through this transparency. It’s not red cellophane in the photo lab.
signed,
self employed