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by skocznymroczny on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:17AM
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Is the name change related with coronavirus in any way? As in it's considered a negative brand right now?
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by barbecue_sauce on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:35AM
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Corona and Isis are two common branding gotos that will now be forever out-of-favor.
Also, you probably can't name anything COVID, but I think that's a less likely scenario.
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by Loulybob on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:33AM
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Tell that to Oxfordshire - plenty of companies still have Isis in the name (due to the local name for the Thames near Oxford being Isis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isis)
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by helldritch on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:39PM
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Interesting, in the UK Corona seems to be doing quite well, anecdotally I'm noticing it popping up as an extra option on a lot of food delivery restaurants, and a lot of friends posting pictures of their bottles after work.
Perhaps this is purely attributable to the British sense of irony.
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by airstrike on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:14AM
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I do wonder what will happen to the beer...
Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by qz_ on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:01AM
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It's already been renamed to Coronita here in the Netherlands
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by freehunter on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:00PM
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Are you sure that’s the reason why? I can buy both Corona and Coronita, the difference is the size of the bottle. -ita in Spanish means “little” so Coronita bottles are 210ml while a bottle of Corona is 330ml.
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by ciceryadam on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:38PM
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all while in colder beer drinking climates, the small beers are 330ml, and regular ones are 500ml :)
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by vvillena on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:30PM
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Corona probably already held the Coronita trademark, because that was how it was branded in Spain until recently, because the brand was held by a winery.
It would be fun to see them reverting the brand once again. What bad luck!