32 Companies and Corporations Who Blew It, Plain and Simple

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32 Companies and Corporations Who Blew It, Plain and Simple

Johnson! Put that cronut down and meet me in the boardroom for an emergency meeting! Oh, and bring some shovels, because we have to dig ourselves out of this massive hole! No, not real shovels! Give those back to the groundskeepers! 

See, that’s the problem right there, Johnson. When we’re not on the same page, we end up making massive marketing and/or social media blunders. Worse yet, we lose billions of dollars. 

Great! Now we’ve found ourselves on this list of huge corporate blunders!

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CRACKED CITIBANK Citibank made a mistake and accidentally sent $900 million to the wrong people, and the lenders refused to return the money. The lenders were taking advantage of the situation due to a longer running saga between them and Revlon, the company that borrowed the money.

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CRACKED Weinerville -Netscape 5 x File Edit View Go Communicator Help My N Back Forward Reload Home Search Netscape Print Security Stop Bookmarks Location: http://www.geocities. s.com/Heartland/Meadows/7322/ Welcome to Wienerville Where dachshunds will walk all over your heart YAHOO! Yahoo purchased Geocities in 1999 for over $4 billion, but the acquisition was ultimately unsuccessful and the site was shut down in 2009.

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When KFC first moved to China, it must have curbed appetites by accidentally promoting self-cannibalism. KFC REAL In an attempt to translate their signature catchphrase Finger- lickin' good, some misused Chinese characters had them saying, Eat your fingers off. CRACKED.COM

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While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE MARK PEPSI The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM

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In 2002, McDonald's Norway released the M MCAFRIKA. It was a McAfrika DISASTER. It came at Fra kr. 32,- a time when many African countries were facing MASS FAMINE. Following a backlash, McDonald's allowed some locations to have donation boxes for humanitarian efforts. GRAGKED.COM

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In 2011, Timothy's World Coffee ran a campaign asking people to Like their Facebook page and receive four boxes of their single-serve coffee (which contains 24 packs in each box). WORLD Timothy's COFFEE Their stock of said boxes was depleted in just three days, and it took them more than two weeks to amend the terms that it would be on a first-come, first-served basis. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM To promote their upcoming runway show in Shanghai, Dolce& Gabbana released a series of videos which depicted a Chinese model struggling to eat Italian food with chopsticks. Many Chinese people interpreted the campaign as a mockery of their culture. The campaign cost D&G the Shanghai show and an undisclosed amount of money after their products were boycotted by multiple Chinese retailers.

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IN 1994, COCA-COLA TRIED TO APPEAL TO GEN XERS WITH OK SODA, DISTINGUISHED MORE BY ITS DRAB, GRIM CAN DESIGNS THAN BY ITS ODD, CITRUSY TASTE - OK. WHICH REALLY 12 FL OZ (355 mL) WAS JUST (355 A CARBONATED BEVERAGE OF OK- CONCEPT 12 HAR MA DON'T BE FOOLED INTO THINK E OK. OK® III. WHAT'S THE POINT OK AMEPHING DBE NYTHING THAT IS NOT HNG THAT IS. TINK OF OTHER PEOPLE i A I I I | I 1 PAR MARKABLE ABILITIES ESCOMATED BEVERAGE 12 FL OZ (355 mL) CARBONATED BEVERAGE 12 FL OZ RAPPENED 2 MARKET TESTS WERE A BUST,

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