Brand Museum adds top sponsor

The proposed Rosebank Brand Museum has added Coca-Cola as a founder sponsor, joining Europcar, McDonald's, Sanlam, Vega, Avis, Vital, Telkom, Business Connexion, Kulula and PPC.

"The museum's stated goal of promoting the past, present and future of branding could equally describe the group's 126 year heritage, current success and future prospects," says the museum's founder Ken Preston, publisher of Brands & Branding in South Africa.

The Museum Council has recently welcomed to its ranks several more well-known figures from branding, advertising and academia, who share the same belief in the benefits the museum will bring to the industry, education, tourism and the people of South Africa.

Council

Alison Tucker - Added Value
Andre Oberholzer - Sappi
Andy Rice - Yellowwood
Chris Moerdyk - Industry commentator
Gareth Leck - Joe Public
Gordon Cook - Vega
Greg Garden - Nedbank
Hans Muhlberg - Moore Attorneys
Heidi Brauer - Comair
Howard Fox - GIBS
Janet Kinghorn - The Brand Union
Kay Nash - Yellowwood
Liesl Loubser - HDI Youth Marketeers
Luisa Mazinter - Themarketingsite.com
Lyn Jones - Continental Outdoor
Muhle Mhlabano - Old Mutual
Nikki Twomey - Standard Bank
Patrick Collings - Sagacite
Sizakele Marutlulle - Grey
Thomas Oosthuizen - BrandWealth
Wilson Khumalo - Bull Brand
Yvonne Johnston - SABC

"We are grateful to the founder sponsors and council for supporting this project. Our goal is to create the best brand museum in the world that presents the saga of branding up to the present and even takes a look into the future," concludes Preston.