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Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by helipad on Saturday May 21, 2011 @08:51AM (#2570786)
The beauty of Red Bull's marketing is its focus.

One product, a few versions. Original, sugar free, small shots - that's about all I know of.

How many other companies make billions with essentially just one product?

Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by SoftwareMaven on Saturday May 21, 2011 @03:43PM (#2571555)
I think the more interesting question is which companies make the most money per product.

Apple has 30ish products.

Google is hard to count, because they have a lot of "stuff", but it all could be said to support AdWords. I think that is too lenient of an interpretation. It seems more like AdWords is the Google currency inside of their product ecosystem.

Red Bull as four (according to another post).

Others, especially outside of tech?

Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by neworbit on Saturday May 21, 2011 @01:08PM (#2571172)
Google (AdWords)
Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by chopsueyar on Saturday May 21, 2011 @09:30AM (#2570833)
Coca-cola?
Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by mkuhn on Saturday May 21, 2011 @09:46AM (#2570852)
Taking a look at this Wikipedia Article listing Coca Cola Brands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands you will realize that Coca Cola, the company, is much more than just Coca Cola, the drink.
Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by chopsueyar on Saturday May 21, 2011 @11:15AM (#2570978)
So, are you saying Coca Cola makes less than a billion dollars per year from Coca Cola alone?

PS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_GmbH#Sport_ownership

PPS The Red Bull product page has 4 different drinks, unless you believe Coke and Diet Coke are the same product, why would Red Bull Energy Drink and Red Bull Energy Drink Sugarfree be the same product?

PPPS My open source hair-splitting machine written in Python is almost complete.

Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by rfrey on Saturday May 21, 2011 @02:38PM (#2571387)
You're probably just having some fun with semantics, but I'm sure helipad meant to say, "how many companies with essentially one product make billions?"
Re:Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by chopsueyar on Saturday May 21, 2011 @03:12PM (#2571473)
Red Bull makes 4 products.