Good old Vladimir Zhirinovsky - he’s such a generous man. His latest wheeze is to help out a small Scandinavian furniture company that is struggling to enter the Russian market - IKEA.
IKEA’s trademark is quite similar to LDPR’s, Zhirinovsky explained in an e-mail to Lennart Dalgren. Both IKEA and LDPR are four-letter words and both have yellow and blue as their corporate colors.
Considering the two brands’ obvious similarity and the historical justice, the MP went on to say, IKEA should change its name to LDPR. The company would anyway benefit from the rebranding, for it would boost the company’s sales enormously.
Besides, Zhirinovsky suggested widening IKEA’s product range by offering the customers the Zhirinovsky perfume, Zhirinovsky vodka, caps and t-shirts with LDPR’s logo.
As a bonus, every customer would receive an LDPR booklet and a record of Zhirinovsky’s songs for free, the suggestion reads.
I don’t know about you, but I’d certainly pop down to my local IKEA more often if I could be sure of picking up a bottle of Zhirinovsky perfume for my girl.
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Tim Newman 11.26.05 at 1:21 pm
Bit close to home this subject….the chap I was staying with in Kazan is the manager of that branch of Ikea and the enormous adjoining shopping mall that has just opened.
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