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What bike ads look like when they have car production budgets
So some car company named Audi bought some bike company named Ducati. One spends $48 million a year in advertising in the US alone. The other has the kind of brand people want to attach themselves to. Oh, and there's some race called Pike's Peak in which hardly any companies take part in even a semi-official capacity. Combine the three and you get something called "production values," something ca...
10 August 2012
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What VW means for Ducati
After weeks of rumor, Bloomberg and Reuters are both independently reporting that VW has agreed to purchase Ducati for something in the neighborhood of $1.12 billion. But why does a gigantic auto conglomerate want a tiny bike manufacturer? What will VW do with Ducati? And, what does the deal mean for that most evocative of bike brands? Let’s examine the background, business and speak to experts ...
17 April 2012