{"id":1739,"date":"2003-11-18T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T04:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/18\/rebranding-germany\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T04:14:31","slug":"rebranding-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/18\/rebranding-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebranding Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1829'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/klinkk.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"187\" align=\"left\"><em>Heard<br \/>\n        about the new German-Chinese restaurant? The food is great, but an hour<br \/>\n        later, you&#8217;re hungry for power&#8230;<br \/> <br \/>\n      <\/em><\/p>\n<p>      FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Hard working, dull and humorless?<\/p>\n<p>      Germany, which has been saddled with negative stereotypes since World War<br \/>\n      II, is actually hip, hedonistic and laid back, a team of image consultants<br \/>\n      is trying to persuade Britons.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;We are known for being aggressive, thorough and pushy,&quot; said<br \/>\n      Ulrich Sacker, director of the Goethe Institute in London.<\/p>\n<p>      Given the weight of skepticism about Germany at home and abroad, advertising<br \/>\n      executives say the task of rebranding will not be easy.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;It&#8217;s much more complex than branding Coca Cola,&quot; said Eberhard<br \/>\n      Beutler, managing director at Saatchi and Saatchi in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;We have an image problem but there is a lot of potential. People<br \/>\n      need to stop being so pessimistic. There are lots of strong points about<br \/>\n      Germany,<br \/>\n      people just need to wake up to that.&quot;    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/odd\/article\/id\/364682%7Coddlyenough%7C11-04-2003::07:30%7Creuters.html\">from<br \/>\n            Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard about the new German-Chinese restaurant? The food is great, but an hour later, you&#8217;re hungry for power&#8230; FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Hard working, dull and humorless? Germany, which has been saddled with negative stereotypes since World War II, is actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/18\/rebranding-germany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}