Posted on 11/21/2016 11:27:36 AM PST by Rio
Nice to pick a nebulous meaningless name to replace a household and historic name. I am sure that will work out well.
That dialogue, substituted for the original “Smith and Wesson…and me” line from Clint Eastwood’s tough guy Dirty Harry Callahan character just doesn’t have the same ring.
74% of Millenials surveyed respond “a company that makes some kind of cooking oil”.
Bad idea.
Stupid with a capital “S”.
That should be the name of some active, outdoorsy subsidiary of Smith & Wesson. Otherwise, they’re giving up something for nothing. The new name is meaningless, uninspired and has no heritage nor legacy behind it.
They’ll change back in 2-5 years or they’ll go out of business.
This would be one of the dumbest moves any nationally known brand ever made. I hope wiser minds at Smith & Wesson prevail.
Nor does, meet my friends the American Outdoor Brands Corporation!!!
LOL! Okay - YOU WIN! LOL
Is there a particular course...”stupid” in business school that maybe is the source for these silly ideas?
Ask the wankers in charge if Webley, Scott, Pederson, Wilkenson, would have allowed this shenanigan.
KYPD
“Smith and Wesson is such a non-inclusive name. It also is a constant reminder of the evil capitalists that exploited the Native American Indians by creating the firearms that destroyed them and their way of life by exterminating the buffalo. S&W must rid themselves of the evil reminders of their exploitive past or be disinvited from the parties of rich and beautiful.”
LOL. Yep.
And there are those who say the diseases of carried by the white man exterminated many Indians . More bull malarkey.
The firearms division won't change names.
This story is a bit misleading. They have no intention of removing the name Smith & Wesson from their firearms.
Any time a significant name or packaging is changed, it is to distract from another, critical change.
We should look for the critical change.
“Smith... and Wesson... and me.”
Google now has a parent company, Alphabet Inc. (Which no one has ever heard about, mostly.)
If S&W is doing some corporate restructuring in a similar vein, the guns would still be marketed under the S&W brand. There would be some other brands under the common corporate umbrella. So what? (JMHO what this is about - feel free to correct me.)
To what, Jones and Mazola?
Shooting themselves in the foot.
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