Slogan Mistakes

[noaim]

It's always good to check into the meaning of your slogans and brands before you start selling in foreign countries, as these companies learned a bit too late...

1. The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted

them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the

Spanish translation read "Are you lactating?"

2. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as

"Suffer from diarrhea".

3. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an

American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".

4. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into German only to

find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the

"manure stick".

5. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same

packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned

that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what's inside,

since many people can't read.

6. Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a

notorious porno magazine.

7. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market

which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the

shirts read "I saw the potato" (la papa).

10. Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "it takes a strong man to make a tender

chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a

chicken affectionate".

11. When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed

to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the

company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so

the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant".

[sharkster]

haha gud stuff man...brilliant

[Kim]

'Nothing sucks like an Electrolux' -

dat was a gud one. ha.