Monday, June 1, 2009

Playboy!!!!!


Lets start with a somewhat known fact..... Hugh Hefner, the founder of the Playboy magazine, carried no date on the first issue of Playboy - he wasn't sure, if there will be another !!!
(Call it paradoxical, Playboy today has the highest circulated Men's Magazine and in Nov1972, it sold 71,61,561 magazines-its highest ever numbers)

Marilyn Monroe, was the first "Playmate", though she never posed for the magazine! Hefner bought her image from a calendar maker

Digest This-Playboy was all said to be titled “ Stag party” , but was named Playboy after Hefner’s associate Sellers suggested the name after Playboy Automobile Co , where his mother worked


British comedian and actor Peter Sellers became the first man to be on the
cover of Playboy magazine!
( Playboy didnt for very long believe in the concept of- Its a Man's World!)


Friday, May 29, 2009

Why does the raconteur exist???

Every brand has a story, an anecdote, often known , sometimes hidden..... but all having contributed to the personality in some ways....
Here is a sample :
How many of us know that Bill Bowerman came up with the iconic waffle shaped out-sole of Nike shoes by pouring polyurethane in his wife's waffle maker????

The brand raconteur attempts to unravel many such untold and exciting tales that lace the life of some of the most known brands of our times
...delve into the stories that have shaped business history!