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Products with Dismal First Year US Sales
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Products with Dismal First Year US Sales
VW Beetle – 300 cars
(Sales peaked at over 200,000 in 1962. On 30 July 2003, the 21,529,464th and final original Beetle rolled off the production line in Puebla, Mexico.)
Scrabble – 532 sets
(Annual US sales now vary from one to two million.)
Liquid Paper – 1,200 bottles
(Liquid Paper was invented in 1951 by Bette Nesmith, mother of Michael Nesmith of Monkees fame. By the time she sold her company to Gilette in 1979, the product was generating US$38 million in annual sales.)
Remington Typewriter – eight units
(This was the first ‘commercial typewriter, introduced in 1874. By 1910, two million typewriters were being sold annually in the USA. By the late 1980s, global sales had reached 10 million units per annum.)
Coca Cola – 25 bottles
(In 2002, Coca Cola sold 5.6 billion cases of soft drinks in the USA, equivalent to 134.4 billion 8oz cans.)
VW Beetle – 300 cars
(Sales peaked at over 200,000 in 1962. On 30 July 2003, the 21,529,464th and final original Beetle rolled off the production line in Puebla, Mexico.)
Scrabble – 532 sets
(Annual US sales now vary from one to two million.)
Liquid Paper – 1,200 bottles
(Liquid Paper was invented in 1951 by Bette Nesmith, mother of Michael Nesmith of Monkees fame. By the time she sold her company to Gilette in 1979, the product was generating US$38 million in annual sales.)
Remington Typewriter – eight units
(This was the first ‘commercial typewriter, introduced in 1874. By 1910, two million typewriters were being sold annually in the USA. By the late 1980s, global sales had reached 10 million units per annum.)
Coca Cola – 25 bottles
(In 2002, Coca Cola sold 5.6 billion cases of soft drinks in the USA, equivalent to 134.4 billion 8oz cans.)
