Coca Cola Versus the Public – container recycling as a branding challenge

Coca Cola, Lion Nathan and Schweppes have successfully challenged the Northern territory’s compulsory container deposit recycling scheme in the Federal Court. The scheme had seen recycling rates jump by 30% in just a few months and was widely applauded by the public as the right thing to do. Despite the overwhelming public support, Coca Cola and others chose to have the scheme over turned. In this chat with ABC Darwin’s Vicki Kerrigan we

 

look at the type of thinking behind Coca Cola’s decision, and ponder whether their brand could take a hit as a result of their strategy to go against public opinion. You canlisten to the podcost via this link: Marcus Barber and Vicki Kerrigan on ABC Darwin Cash for Containers. For those interested, you can permanently download the podcast also

Advanced Organisational Strategy (AOS) Events

Jan 24, 2007

Your Advanced Organisational Strategy events coincide with a specific need for your business and lead to excellent outcomes. These events are customed tailored to help you solve an organisational challenge or to answer a key exploratory question for you. The AOS focuses on two main objectives – to create a specific ‘How to’ for solving…

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Innovation & Counter Intuitiveness

Jan 23, 2007

The idea behind Innovation is to create something new, that has yet to be conceived. A lot of the times that requires Counterintuitive thinking and that can be a very difficult challenge because it needs to break the habits in our thinking styles. For me the essence of being a futurist is the essence of…

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