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Barometer: The brands regretting calling themselves ‘Corona’

issue 15 February 2020

Going viral

A few of the businesses which chose ‘Corona’ as a brand name and now have a bit of an image problem:

— Corona beer — brand of lager owned by Anheuser Busch InBev.

— Corona Energy — gas and electricity supplier to businesses and the public sector.

— Corona Pine Furniture — range from Mercers Furniture of Rotherham.

— Corona ‘the 2D game engine’ — software for designing video games.

— Corona, the ‘lemon capital of the world’, a city of 160,000 people 45 miles from LA.

— And one which changed its name in time: Corona lemonade — South Wales manufacturer taken over by Britvic in 1987 and rebranded.

Bridge too far

The government was confirmed to be undertaking a scoping study into a possible bridge linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.

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