theeasybrandfight

Easy.com is a well known British group having under its umbrella an endless number of brands combined with the word Easy, their most famous one is the low-cost airline EasyJet, the founder of Easy Group is Stelios. Not long ago, Easy Group also launched EasyFoodStore with a very simple business line “No expensive brands, just food honestly priced”.

Yesterday, Carrefour Belgium opened its 1st store called Easy Market along with their Carrefour icon and previously they opened also in Belgium 2 stores called Easy Caddy without any link to the Carrefour brand. The main idea behind these 2 concepts is to test a low-cost stores which are too big for the Carrefour Express concept and too small for the Carrefour Market concept. Both Easy Market and Easy Caddy use the famous orange color used by EasyGroup for all its brands and products.

EasyGroup is very keen about its branding and colors, they have a dedicated page on their website for this matter entitled Brand Thieves, we need to see where this going to get on the brand trademarking side, the word easy and the orange color, unless there is a deal about it.

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We came to Istanbul myself and our Commercial Director to pick up our visas from the Macedonian Embassy in order to go on from here to Skopje. On our way from beirut with Turkish Airlines, I was joking with Camil, telling him that lots of planes are being hijacked in Turkey, I hope our flight will be safe.

Yesterday we were chatting about this Turkish Low-Cost airliner called Pegasus and the destination it is offering for cheap prices.

And today, while watching CNN, i was so surprised for this “breaking news” where a Pegasus flight from Diyarbakir to Istanbul was hijacked and forced to land in Ankara.

Below are some tv screenshot from CNN after the hijack took place and Pegasus tv commercial few minutes after the hijack on turkish cnbc channel.

What a coincidence!!!

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