Brands, Products and Promotions

and yet their own website has this spiel.. (my bold emphasis)

Today, First National Real Estate is Australia’s most advanced real estate network and the trademark ‘Swash’ is the country’s most recognised symbol for real estate, operating Australia wide, and in New Zealand and Vanuatu.

:man_facepalming:

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You would hope not.. but who knows :roll_eyes: I used to like Mountain Dew back in the days of all you can eat Pizza Huts.. but haven’t touched it since they added the caffeine to the local product. Just seems needless and wrong to me.

Absolutely nuts to drop it.

If people see it anywhere they know it’s real estate. Now they’ll think it’s a bank or insurance or a liquor shop. :wink:

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No, Allen’s Mountain Dew lollies don’t contain caffeine. I find the back label on the Woolworths website.

Mountain Dew chews
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Mountain Dew jellies

Coca Cola encouraging people to “collect” 18 cans of teams at the FIFA World Cup.

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Limited Edition Dairy Milk PB&J: Peanut Butter & Jelly.

It’s peanut flavoured cream, peanut pieces and raspberry flavoured jelly, covered in Dairy Milk chocolate. Doesn’t taste like peanut butter at all and rather than raspberry jam it’s actually like jelly.

Brand revamp for UK-based MVNO operator Lebara:

Currently rolling out in the Netherlands only, but it’s ready for other markets according to the designers:

The rebrand is now live in the Netherlands, and rolling out across Germany, France, Denmark and the UK over summer. And through licensing partners spanning Nigeria, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Spain, the identity is built to travel.

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This sounds like the Katie/Katy Perry lawsuit all over again…

And Patagonia doing this to a drag performer is pretty ironic, given how overlapped the fanbase between the two can be.

Ew…?

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/tas-boags-ends-tasmanian-production/106748810

Lion has owned James Boag since it bought the business and the Launceston brewery from Philippine conglomerate San Miguel for $325 million in November 2007.

The company branded itself as “from the pure waters of Tasmania” but that history now comes to an end.

Now it comes from “the pure waters of a tap on the mainland” :rofl:

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“We wish this lawsuit had not been necessary, and we want to acknowledge any hurt it has caused, especially in the LGBTQ+ community,” Patagonia said on Instagram.

“We don’t want to argue trademark law on social media. Importantly, we continue to want to resolve this.

“As we have said to Pattie Gonia, we can do that if they withdraw all trademark applications, stop using our logos, stop selling and promoting apparel and other products as Pattie Gonia.”

New Darrell Lea products.

Rocklea Road bites. Traditional and Raspberry.

Coconut Rough with cookies collab with H2 COCO

Strawberry Matcha Balls

Popular giant Bunnings has swallowed two large firms whole in a mega merger – including the owner of Hard Yakka and Australia’s biggest industrial and safety supplies firm.

This after parent company Wesfarmers handed Bunnings Group control of Australia’s largest industrial and safety distributor Blackwoods as well as a national workwear empire Workwear Group which owns brands like Hard Yakka and King Gee – as well as a network of distribution centres stretching from Canningvale to Carole Park.

A while ago, I mentioned how “protein” had started to be added to the packaging of a lot of products to attract people people who want to consume more of it. I think it was last year that Gruen also featured this phenomenon and how dodgy the claims are. A lot of foods contain protein anyway and others don’t have that much protein, so the claims are laughable.

Anyway, I’ve noticed this spreading to so many more products like pasta, milk and even cakes. In some cases, they’re even dropping the product description in favour of the word Protein. Here are some I noticed recently. Uncle Toby’s Muesli Bars without a mention that they are actually muesli bars. Dairy Farmers Milk that doesn’t say it’s milk. And the Rokeby Protein snack which gives you no idea what it is exactly. Very strange development.

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