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Coca-Cola supports SA Brand Museum project

By Gillian Abrahams · AdVantage archive
From the AdVantage archive. This report was published on this domain when AdVantage covered the South African media, marketing and advertising industry as a monthly title. It is kept online for reference and has not been updated; people, prices and companies named in it have moved on.
Coca-Cola supports SA Brand Museum project
Cape Town City Hall. Photo: Martie Swart from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Coca-Cola, arguably the world’s strongest and best managed heritage brand, is joining Europcar, McDonald’s, Sanlam, Vega, Avis, Vital, Telkom, Business Connexion, Kulula and PPC as a founder sponsor of the planned Rosebank Brand Museum.

“The Museum’s stated goal of promoting the past, present and future of branding could equally describe Coca-Cola’s 126 year heritage, current success and future prospects” says the Brand Museum’s founder Ken Preston, publisher of Brands & Branding in South Africa.

The Museum Council has recently welcomed to its ranks several more well-known figures from branding, advertising and academia, who share the same belief in the benefits the Brand Museum will bring to the industry, education, tourism and the people of South Africa.

The Council now comprises:

Alison Tucker Added Value
Andre Oberholzer Sappi
Andy Rice Yellowwood
Chris Moerdyk Industry commentator
Gareth Leck Joe Public
Gordon Cook Vega
Greg Garden Nedbank
Hans Muhlberg Moore Attorneys
Heidi Brauer Comair
Howard Fox GIBS
Janet Kinghorn The Brand Union
Kay Nash Yellowwood
Liesl Loubser HDI Youth Marketeers
Luisa Mazinter Themarketingsite.com
Lyn Jones Continental Outdoor
Muhle Mhlabano Old Mutual
Nikki Twomey Standard Bank
Patrick Collings Sagacite
Sizakele Marutlulle Grey
Thomas Oosthuizen BrandWealth
Wilson Khumalo Bull Brand
Yvonne Johnston SABC

“We are deeply grateful to the Founder Sponsors and the Museum Council for supporting this project.  Our goal is quite simply to create the best brand museum in the world.  One that presents the saga of branding, right up to the present, and even takes a look into the future”, says Preston.

Filed under: advertising and academia · avis · branding 2 · business connexion · coca cola · europcar · featured · ken preston

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