Gap swapped its blue box and took it back a week later

Gap put a new logo on its website without saying why. Shoppers answered on Facebook, and a week later the blue box was back.

Teardown 05 of 10·Global·Clothing·2010·Members

Verdict · It was reversed

Gap pulled the new logo one week after it appeared, and its North America president said the company “did not go about this in the right way.”

Before

For about two decades, Gap's logo was its name in white capital letters on a navy blue square.36 Ad Age counted it on some 1,200 stores in North America, and Gap ran nearly 300 more stores in Europe and Asia.1 Interbrand's 2010 study ranked Gap the 84th most valuable brand in the world, worth nearly $4 billion.1

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Sources for the opening

  1. 1Gap Introduces New Logo, Mass Criticism EnsuesAdvertising Age · October 6, 2010 · adage.com
  2. 3The Gap Gets Backlash For Logo MakeoverNPR · October 8, 2010 · npr.org
  3. 6Gap Drops New Logo; Back To White On Navy BlueNPR · October 12, 2010 · npr.org

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