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Too busy getting pissed at the distillery to notice and then in a strop when she realised the edit would show her (and Grianne) in an awful light.
It was a truly dreadful name, the story of the adventurer and everything was quite good so if it had been something like Wayfairer, and they had an image of an adventurer picking the spices up on his travels would be good- The orange colour was a disaster as anybody with any sense wouldn't add an artificial colour and it was a particularly murky orange. Alana had the sense to listen to the distiller when they said don't do it No one who had never touched gin, or knew nothing about it, , like Trishna , would know that it wasn't to be coloured, or how alcoholic it was. It could be lemonade from its look. Orange woud have made sense if it had ended up with real orange in it. Begs the question of what the distillers told each team, how it was said, and what each of them knew about gin beforehand. And why in this case Frances - if she knew more - didn't say so, and Grainee didn't ask her. |
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Island gin. Exotica gin, Travellers Gin, would all have done. Colonial was a weird - 1880s or 1930s name
No one who had never touched gin, or knew nothing about it, , like Trishna , would know that it wasn't to be coloured, or how alcoholic it was. It could be lemonade from its look. Orange woud have made sense if it had ended up with real orange in it. Begs the question of what the distillers told each team, how it was said, and what each of them knew about gin beforehand. And why in this case Frances - if she knew more - didn't say so, and Grainee didn't ask her. Frances has an A* in geography. Her concept and story (as if gin needs a story) involved collecting spices from India in the early days of empire. But then she shifted the map right to get England [sic] on the label and this is what placed Africa in the centre. It may also be she'd mistaken the Arabian peninsula for India. The name Colony follows from the story, but it sounded like Frances originally proposed Polynesia -- so perhaps the change was made when she looked at a map and discovered the Polynesian islands are literally on the other side of the world. The question of whether she'd further confused India with Indonesia (which includes what used to be known as the Spice Islands) is left open. |
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But but but Frances got an A* in Geography.
![]() ![]() In fact it was glorious, you put in Africa, tell the drinks guys that it's East Asia, and that India is presumably where his thumb is, but it's okay because you squeezed GB on there (and therefore backed the name up beautifully). If Frances has an A*, then the drinks guys must have PHDs in geography because they all noticed it was wrong.
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That was one of the greatest things ever said in TA. As you are branding your gin "Colony" and you are desperate to get Britain onto the label.
![]() In fact it was glorious, you put in Africa, tell the drinks guys that it's East Asia, and that India is presumably where his thumb is, but it's okay because you squeezed GB on there (and therefore backed the name up beautifully). If Frances has an A*, then the drinks guys must have PHDs in geography because they all noticed it was wrong. ![]()
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I did geography to GCSE in school and we did nothing about where countries are in the world. It was rocks, weather and erosion, formation of cities, volcanos and earthquakes, population densities and things like that.
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And one of the greatest things said on You're Fired was Nathan Caton's quip: she's got an A* in geography, apparently -- if ever there's a school that needs an Ofsted inspection!
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No one who had never touched gin, or knew nothing about it, , like Trishna , would know that it wasn't to be coloured, or how alcoholic it was. It could be lemonade from its look. Orange woud have made sense if it had ended up with real orange in it. I don't understand why, once they knew that the colouring was a mistake, they didn't say that time constraints didn't allow for coloured glass so they had coloured the gin to give the effect of coloured glass but that it would in fact be clear. |
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Orange was a really poor choice of colour as the gin then resembled brandy. Fruit in the bottle is a good idea. The GiiN team could have added raspberries and made the bottle pink, saying their target market was women.
Why weren't they asked to specify target markets? |
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I was amazed that Trishna, as a British Asian, didn't flag up the negative connotations of naming a gin 'Colony' in 2016.
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Originally Posted by Zarla;84834430 [B
I was amazed that Trishna, as a British Asian[/b], didn't flag up the negative connotations of naming a gin 'Colony' in 2016.
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Why weren't they asked to specify target markets?
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Orange was a really poor choice of colour as the gin then resembled brandy. Fruit in the bottle is a good idea. The GiiN team could have added raspberries and made the bottle pink, saying their target market was women.
Why weren't they asked to specify target markets? As you say, if they had time, and resources, to find out they could have asked would you buy this , and then aimed at that market, if enough people said yes, or taken the colour out, if no one would drink it. Who was it, when asked about target markets, who, effectively, said they were aiming at ...........people? |
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In early US apprentice series that came out of came out of the market research . Kendra won series 3 by consistently getting her market right, Here they have never done proper market research, and when thy have done any , its usually to late to change what they are committed to,.
As you say, if they had time, and resources, to find out they could have asked would you buy this , and then aimed at that market, if enough people said yes, or taken the colour out, if no one would drink it. Who was it, when asked about target markets, who, effectively, said they were aiming at ...........people? |
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No one ever seems to complain about the Colony Clubs in Barbados, London, New York etc.
In Portugal there is an area near Estoril referred to as 'the Colony'. Talk about a non-story. |
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Why was this Trishna's responsibility?
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I was lost on the whole map thing, when she was with the designer, the reason she had to have Africa in the picture and not India was due to the fact with Africa as the main focus it still showed the UK. So what happened? because when we saw the label with Africa "front and centre" the Uk was cut off.
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I was lost on the whole map thing, when she was with the designer, the reason she had to have Africa in the picture and not India was due to the fact with Africa as the main focus it still showed the UK. So what happened? because when we saw the label with Africa "front and centre" the Uk was cut off.
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https://twitter.com/emlaurenb/status...402368?lang=en
https://twitter.com/gillianfa/status...675200?lang=en Trish is becoming an expert on who sells orange gin https://mobile.twitter.com/TrishSpurs There's more..... http://www.bing.com/search?q=orange+...c=IE-SearchBox |
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I think if they'd coloured the gin with actual orange rather than food colouring it might have been a different story. I presume that these gins have natural ingredients.
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