Cervelo story in the Globe & Mail

Sandy

Dans le message de
news:4941cf4d-5fd0-4eb4-a062-d04f85533d9f@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com,
Amit Ghosh <amit.ghosh@gmail.com> a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré :


> astana is sponsored by a bunch of oil-rich borats

You're a scumsucking racist.

Ryan Cousineau

In article
<fb3e0ca4-09d6-4e01-81c1-af29c0a0c289@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
rjk3@my-deja.com wrote:

> On Jun 13, 2:07 am, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > <2d9b4898-ed08-4374-a7e2-77e68c9da...@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> > Kurgan Gringioni <kgringi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 12, 2:52 pm, bicycle_disciple <1.crazyboy.o...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Jun 12, 2:26 pm, Bob Schwartz <bob.schwa...@REMOVEsbcglobal.net>
> > > > wrote:
> >
> > > > > jspace...@linuxquestions.net wrote:
> > > > > > Today's Globe & Mail has a story about Cervelo, how they landed the
> > > > > > Team CSC contract (soon to be Team Sexy Back), how it almost blew
> > > > > > up
> > > > > > in their faces with the Basso doping scandal, etc. Read it at
> > > > > >http://www.reportonbusiness.com/ser...080611.wsb-sbma
> > > > > >...
> > > > > > orhttp://tinyurl.com/4845fg
> >
> > > > > You know, in spite of all the hand-wringing over doping
> > > > > scandals causing sponsors to leave the sport, one of
> > > > > the points of the article is that it *didn't* blow up
> > > > > in their faces at all.
> >
> > > > > "White says the doping controversies have had a negligible
> > > > > effect on sales. In fact, road bikes have been the fastest
> > > > > growing segment of the bicycle market in the U.S. since 2004,
> > > > > with sales growing by 70% over the past three years (similar
> > > > > statistics for Canada aren't available)."
> >
> > > > > Bob Schwartz
> >
> > > > Cervelo is really so much in the news these past few years that
> > > > reading their same story over and over again is getting really boring.
> >
> > > Their publicist must be very good (to get the same boring story into
> > > so many different places).
> >
> > There's been about five successful-outside-Canada Canadian companies in
> > the last decade*, so it's easy to get their charming story in the Globe
> > & Mail.
> >
> > *Research In Motion, Macdonald Dettweiler, Cervelo, and I can't think of
> > two more.
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Cousineau rcous...@gmail.comhttp://www.wiredcola.com/
> > "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
> > "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."
>
> Who the hell is Macdonald Dettweiler.

Google tells me I meant MacDonald Dettwiler.

True story: Vern Dettwiler spoke at our career day when I was in high
school. I didn't really understand what a big deal that was at the time.

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@gmail.com http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Fred Fredburger

Kurgan Gringioni wrote:

> Their publicist must be very good (to get the same boring story into
> so many different places).

Sometimes bad is good. In advertising, especially.

Another example (but you have to be an NFL fan to get it):

Last week I took Mrs. Fredburger to San Francisco in an effort to
distract her from our 20th wedding anniversary. While walking all over
SF, I saw this mounted on the wall inside a bus stop:

http://beeblebrox.endoftheinternet.org/Alex_Smith1.JPG

For you non-NFL fans, there are reasons independent of Alex Smith's
resemblance to Godzilla that make this ad a head-smacker.

Fred Fredburger

Robert Chung wrote:
> On Jun 13, 6:16 pm, ilan...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Avril Lavigne.
>
> Maybe, but then you'd have to deduct for Celine Dion.

Two words:

Bryan Adams.