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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemite-how-you-eat-it-is-what-counts/ So the new name for Vegemite iFail ver. 3.1 is finalised and we can at last put this brand-rape of a national icon behind us. Cheesybite. There. It’s done. And let us thank gawd they didn’t go with Creamymate (which received six per cent of the vote and sounds like a menu option at a brothel). Anyway, let us celebrate this new name by going and buying a nice big jar of the original (ver 1.0) and be happy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemite-how-you-eat-it-is-what-counts/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemite-how-you-eat-it-is-what-counts/#item1414 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/and-you-think-youre-having-a-stressful-day/ You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/and-you-think-youre-having-a-stressful-day/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/and-you-think-youre-having-a-stressful-day/#item1401 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-you-give-something-loved-a-bad-name/ WHAT’S in a name? Everything - especially if you pick a dud one - as any marketing graduate will tell you. So why did Kraft put its reputation and that of one of Australia’s best known brands on the line by selecting a ridiculous name like iSnack2.0 for a new variety of Vegemite? That’s what many Australians have been asking themselves since the infamous iSnack2.0 moniker was unveiled just over a week ago and then, within days, dumped after a rally of public disapproval. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-you-give-something-loved-a-bad-name/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-you-give-something-loved-a-bad-name/#item1388 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/isnack-was-a-registered-name-before-kraft-closed-comp/ Was the doomed trade name iSnack 2.0 really the choice of an open competition or was Kraft up to something craftier? The trade name for the Vegemite-based spread, which was abandoned today amid a hail of ridicule, was registered in Hong Kong two weeks before the competition closed, The Punch can reveal. Kraft registered iSnack2.0 along two other trade names, Snackerific and Crackertime, on July 30. The competition closed on August 14. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/isnack-was-a-registered-name-before-kraft-closed-comp/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/isnack-was-a-registered-name-before-kraft-closed-comp/#item1363 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemitegate-was-it-all-one-massive-con-job/ The good people at Kraft have just released the following press release announcing that they are scrapping the name iSnack2.0 for their new spin-off spread and holding another competition. We’ve run their statement in full - and we want to know from Punch readers - has this whole exercise been one big con job? 30 September 2009: Kraft Foods Australia/New Zealand has today announced that it will change the name of the new Vegemite. Since the new Vegemite hit supermarket shelves in July 2009, Australians and New Zealanders have been invited to come up with a name for the new product; just as Australians did when Vegemite was first launched in this country in 1923. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemitegate-was-it-all-one-massive-con-job/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/vegemitegate-was-it-all-one-massive-con-job/#item1358 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lets-vandalise-some-other-aussie-brands-2009-style/ What would happen if everyone followed Kraft’s lead and decided to rebadge great Australian brands with whimsical zeitgeist names? Perhaps something like this. (If you haven’t come across it, “FTW!” means for “For the Win!” and is an expression of approval. Find out more here.) Penbo wrote about the iSnack 2.0 debacle here today and it has kicked off a most amusing set of comments including one reader who complained the new product was incompatible with Toast 9.0. Anyway, potentials for Penfold’s Grange, Akubra, and R.M. Williams are over the jump. Suggestions in the comments, please - you can offer new slogans for Aussie brands or email your own poorly-Photoshopped offerings to photos (at) thepunch.com.au. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lets-vandalise-some-other-aussie-brands-2009-style/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lets-vandalise-some-other-aussie-brands-2009-style/#item1340 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-vegemite-row-gets-the-hitler-parody-treatment/ Someone’s seen the funny side of the iSnack 2.0 national disaster. This is worth watching all the way to the end. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-vegemite-row-gets-the-hitler-parody-treatment/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-vegemite-row-gets-the-hitler-parody-treatment/#item1343 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-just-smiled-and-gave-me-a-isnack2.0-sandwich/ The above headline is a Vegemite-free reworking of Men At Work’s “Down Under”, shamelessly pilfered from Twitter as an example of the hundreds of negative and abusive comments being directed at Kraft over the iSnack2.0 debacle. On current projections the iSnack2.0 disaster will be taught for years to come in marketing courses as a step-by-step example of how to upset everybody - the oldies who are fiercely loyal to Vegemite in its existing incarnation, and the youngsters who regard the internet-driven name of this (woeful) new brand as patronising gimmickry, akin to Sorbent trying to corner the youth market with a “hip and groovy” new toilet tissue called iShit. AS any student of yeast-based food extracts can attest, the history of sandwich spreads is a volatile one where passions run high and careers, even entire companies, have risen and fallen on the back of their marketing campaigns. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-just-smiled-and-gave-me-a-isnack2.0-sandwich/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-just-smiled-and-gave-me-a-isnack2.0-sandwich/#item1338 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 You’re locked in a room with a small team and a big decision to make. Everyone is hanging on your ruling. Which way will they go? What are the ramifications? The announcement will be carried by the national media as soon as its made. No, you’re not the Reserve Bank board - you’re the marketing team at Kraft.