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Why Marlboro Country ends at the border

Published: 2 August 2012

Marketers spend plenty of time defending their brands against copycats, but it is not often that a product copycats itself.

... Creating confusion with a more well-known product can be highly valuable for a competitor, said Chun Qiu, a marketing professor at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, who focuses on the subject. At most, a consumer will be misled into buying the copycat product once, but that's all a generic brand needs.

Read full article: , August 2, 2012

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