Posted on 05/22/2023 2:03:47 AM PDT by Morgana
Harley Davidson death by Budweiser can!
Harley Davidson and Budweiser decide to partner together for a beer can. This is a great idea if you want to tank your stock value. I am rethinking my channel and the brands I support, Harley Davidson will feel this in their stock value.
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It is rather strange HD picked now to join a sinking ship of Bud Light.
chances are good that this was in planning and production for a year
When you think about the discussions they had to have, the contracts drawn up, reviewed by lawyers, people hired, scripts made, filming to begin...
All that doesn’t happen in a month. And I doubt they would have STARTED after this disaster.
“chances are good that this was in planning and production for a year”
Very true but as soon as HD saw the disaster at AB could someone not had not put the breaks on the plan to go forward?
At the very least HD should have said “lets wait for this tranny storm to blow over with AB” and waited to go forward. I just find it hard to think that no one is “thinking” things out.
HD is about to commit suicide. Enjoy the woke.
HD is going to take a huge anal hit.
That process is already underway.
Harley Davidson CEO says the brand ‘will be all-electric’ in the future
Electric Harley’s? Really?
For something whose primary use is to go on road trips, rather than short supermarket trips?
The electric Harleys are sure to appeal to the man-bun crowd.
In the video the guy spoke about this I believe. I didn’t understand it because I don’t own a HD and never did.
I got the impression what ever the change is would be something that most HD owners would not like and is outlandish.
I think you are correct. HD should pull out ASAP and sue for damages and expenses.
Harley Davidson isn’t going to get their stock crashed for this.
A motorcycle purchase is not a beer purchase.
Beer is a consumable commodity… millions, if not tens of millions of beers are bought daily. You buy it, you drink it, you buy another one.
HD sells less than 200k motorcycles worldwide annually.
Beers are bought a one to a few a day by each consumer. Motorcycles? Maybe a few over the course of their lifetime.
Beer has hundreds of brands to choose from, motorcycles, without getting into the custom or boutique builders there are maybe 10ish brands of note
HD is the brand people who want an American roadster many people aspire to own….
If HD put a trans on a bike in their direct advertising and said we are here for the queer then, you would see that mystique be affected, but letting Bud put your brand on their can? This isn’t going to cause folks by any large number to abandon their brand and stop buying their motorcycles.
Perhaps they will get their ESG score dinged by proxy and that could force some institutional ESG funds to have to liquidate the stock, which might creat a short term drop, but from a fundamentals perspective no I wouldn’t be worried if I owned HD stock unless I was day trading it over this.
HD had its lowest sales in 15 years last year, and given the continued inflation and recession fears I would be more worried about that impact on the stock long term. motorcycles are not a necessity item for the majority of consumers, the tighter house budgets are the less the desire to have a bike is likely to be able to be acted on.
Yes the hard core will still buy a motorcycle when they need a new one, but the other 90%+ of the customer base will hold off doing so.
This will make for an interesting set of tattoos
Plus there always is Kawasaki or Yamaha motorcycles.
Harley sales are probably dropping. Everyone who wants a Harley already has one.
Just another aspect of society the left wants to kill. In the meantime those with massive amounts of stock in the company and in the know will short everything and be out when the crash finally hits.
This is happening to public companies all over America. It is meant to destroy the middle class and more specifically conservatives.
The love I have had for HD for 60 years and the Road King I have sitting in my garage just turned very bitter in my mind. I also have my first bike, a ‘46 74 cu. in. sitting next to the Road King. Harley drivers are the very last individuals on earth to sign on to wokism, which says those running the company are brain dead. The suicidal ideologues just will not leave well enough alone.
Companies / advertisers are going after the younger market. sad
But....the Problem is, I think for the most, part younger people are into cell phones more than motorcycles. Most of us riders, I notice, are now gray heads.
Budweiser isn’t Budlight
Is Harley American owned? Is a German its CEO?
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