Fowl Loves and Other International Branding Disasters
Branding Strategy Insider: Branding and Cultural Differences
The classic branding mistake that even I had heard of was the Chevy Nova: "No va" is "doesn't go" in Spanish, a bad name for an automobile. Derrick Daye lists a number of other quite funny examples.
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