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Dead Guys Finish Last

How impor­tant is a brand’s her­itage? I’d say it depends on the prod­uct cat­e­gory. With auto­mo­biles, for instance, evi­dence indi­cates that a brand’s her­itage does play a part in the buy­ing deci­sion. For a now rapidly dwin­dling seg­ment of elderly car buy­ers who fondly recall the grand old Gen­eral Motors (GM) brand in its heyday, […]

Made in Japan

Not so long ago the words Made in Japan and Japan­ese could be used inter­change­ably. When used to refer to man­u­fac­tured goods, they meant prac­ti­cally the same thing. Not any­more. When the Japan­ese emerged from the rub­ble of World War II, Made in Japan stood for shoddy prod­ucts, like toys that fell apart. Then Japan­ese manufacturers […]