A quick primer from Marketing 101: don’t associate your company with totalitarian regimes. A simple lesson, but one that recently went unheeded in considerable style by a Taiwanese company.

A quick primer from Marketing 101: don’t associate your company

with totalitarian regimes. A simple lesson, but one that recently went

unheeded in considerable style by a Taiwanese company.



The K.E. and Kingstone ad agency decided to pull advertisements for

German-made electric heaters one day after it came under fire from

Jewish and German diplomats in Taiwan.



The posters featured ...