the Same... But Different?

[Jamez]

Cherry Coke will always be a firm favourite of mine.

[scottishtv]

What ever happened to Nestlé Flipz?

Nestlé replied:

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

We are sorry to inform you that Pretzel Flipz were withdrawn from our range in March 2000 due to the high cost of production and the relatively low level of sales. We would like to assure you that the decision to withdraw any product is reached only with great reluctance and we regret any disappointment this product's absence has caused you.

Whilst sales do well in America, consumer research in this country has indicated that demand here would not be sufficient to warrant the long production runs necessary to ensure good value.

Our experience with this and other brands lead us to conclude that tastes can sometimes vary markedly between different countries and I regret that is unlikely to be available in the UK in the near future. However, our marketing policy is constantly under review and your comments have been noted.

Kind Regards

Karen Short
Consumer Services

[Johnny]

What ever happened to Nestlé Flipz?

Nestlé replied:

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

We are sorry to inform you that Pretzel Flipz were withdrawn from our range in March 2000 due to the high cost of production and the relatively low level of sales. We would like to assure you that the decision to withdraw any product is reached only with great reluctance and we regret any disappointment this product's absence has caused you.

Whilst sales do well in America, consumer research in this country has indicated that demand here would not be sufficient to warrant the long production runs necessary to ensure good value.

Our experience with this and other brands lead us to conclude that tastes can sometimes vary markedly between different countries and I regret that is unlikely to be available in the UK in the near future. However, our marketing policy is constantly under review and your comments have been noted.

Kind Regards

Karen Short
Consumer Services

They were available in milk chocolate & white chocolate


The American's love their preztles over there

[stu]

Where did Doritos 3D disappear to? Loved those!

[nwtv2003]

Where did Doritos 3D disappear to? Loved those!

The cheese ones were very nice, last time I saw them on sale was on the Walkers rack at a branch of Subway a year or two ago.

Also does anyone remember Vice Versas from Nestlé? They were around in the mid 1990's, then my local Morrisons were selling them for a brief period last year and disappeared again! One would presume that they have ceased production of the product.

It's always odd when your in other countries that sell the same products, but never always the same in terms of content and packaging, as in the USA Kit Kat's are in a different packaging, I also believe Twix is also different too. When I was in the USA a few years ago I tried Nestlé's Butterfinger, it wasn't too bad, though I never see why it hasn't been launched in the UK.

[WW Update]

One example of a single company using different logos was common in the 1990s: China did not allow airlines to fly to both the mainland and Taiwan (for political reasons, as the PRC does not recognize Taiwan), so it forced airlines to adopt slighltly brands and different logos -- usually lacking national symbols -- for their Taiwan services. It was still the same airline flying there, but both China and the airlines could pretend it wasn't. For example, instead of British Airways, you had "British Asia Airways":


^^^ Note the absence of the Union Jack that was used by BA at the time. (Image: avsim.com)

Similarly, Swissair (photo) was known as Swissair Asia (photo) on some routes -- and the Swiss Cross was gone.

[WW Update]

BTW, as you can see here, Australia's QANTAS went one step further: Its "Taiwan subsidiary" had a completely different name: Australia Asia Airlines. The famous kangaroo was gone as well, replaced by an abstract shape that nevertheless retained the traditional white-on-red pattern. The font used for the logo also stayed unchanged.

[Johnny]

Anyone know the reason for this:

UK:



Australia:



Europe:



I'm not sure if there are diffrent names anywhere else or where the Oz & European names come from. But I know Vauxhall got it's name from the South London Town where the original Vauxhall factory is now a Sainsbury's.

They unvield a commemrotive plaque there on the 100th anniversary of Vauxhall Motors

[Johnny]

They're all owned by GM in the US aren't they?

Yes they are all owned by GM but those particular brands are traditionally only found in the countries they originate from & all have the exact same models (Vectra, Corsa & Astra) although Opel used to call the Astra Estate the Kaddet.

It's just that's the only example I know of a motor company doing that

[WW Update]

One more: In Latin America, the Corsa, the Vectra, and the Astra carry the Chevrolet brand, another GM property.

Chevrolet Corsa:

[rdobbie]

And what we know in Britain as the Vauxhall Nova was called the Opel Corsa in the rest of Europe. They finally changed the name in Britain to coincide with the bubble shaped version launched in 1993.

I seem to recall they couldn't call it Nova in Europe because in Spanish and Italian it translated as "won't go".