The Chinese have yet to figure out branding. Everywhere, all manners of stores and cafes and snack shops have cropped up. The latest was a ubiquitous chain of fast food shops to compete against KFC: with the same color scheme and similar font, the chain was nonetheless called 'Kungfu' and features an icon of Bruce Lee. Not sure that Colonel Sanders and Bruce would ever go toe to toe in a match, but the fight will probably have to go to Bruce. The Nike swoosh has somehow been replaced with what I thought resembled a 'Longevity eyebrow', a brand probably selling sports shoes (that gives you the kungfu skills of a Taoist master with longevity eyebrows?!) . Herewith is a picture with those brands, see for yourself!
Darius and I had a leisurely day, just meeting with various teaware manufacturers, and the boss from Fujian to discuss our flowering tea, Free Leaf, and jasmine pearls situation. We have to confess, those teas actually pay the bills, folks, so we can have a wonderful teashop hawking High Mountain Oolongs.
We had fun with one of the kids of the stores who was probably the cutest kid to ever condescend to a picture with Darius. Tomorrow: a city bigger, louder, more chaotic: Shanghai!
Taken from http://teapersonality.blogspot.com/
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