This book is a highly entertaining look at the international marketing mistakes made by large and small companies who, for the most part, should have known better.

This new edition of Blunders in International Business is significantly updated and revised, full of interesting anecdotes, including dozens of new international business blunders. David Ricks has uncovered many informative and entertaining blunders that will make this book hard to put down. Features blunders from well-known corporations American Express, McDonalds, Toyota, GM, Sharwoods, Jolly Green Giant, Bacardi, Puff, AOL, BMW, and many others. Conserves its well-liked, concise format. Several well-known blunders from previous editions have been replaced in order to update the lessons learned.

Six major marketing mistakes are responsible for most product or business failures. This book explains hwo entrepreneurs and executives can increase their chances of success by ridding their companies of such errors as the better mousetrap philosophy. This entertaining guide also contains checklists to help marketers stay on safe ground.

Marketing Blunders: Lessons for Future Managers is all about marketing lessons from year 2009 to 2020. It starts off with a brief background of the business. Then, the authors reveal what went wrong in each case and how the company solved the issue or turned a bad situation into a positive one. All cases end with a list of lessons learnt and discussion questions. You will learn the potential marketing blunders and how to avoid them. This book will help you build and strengthen your brand.

This book will provide empirical evidence of blunders committed by firms from small developing countries that operate in developed country markets. It will identify lessons that managers who are looking to do business in international markets can learn in order to lessen the mistakes in markets that are psychically distant.