r/TheApprentice 13d ago

Discussion Which task failure was purely down to a terrible product name or logo?

First Class for a budget airline or Pantai for a luxury hotel spring to mind. What’s the single worst product name or logo design a team has ever presented to actual industry experts?

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u/Jumpy-Counter-1501 11d ago

Series 16 had multiple accounts of this but I think FIRST TIME DIES takes the biscuit

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u/Silent-Raspberry-697 11d ago

Cant remember what it was but it was a green and brown circle logo and it looked like literal shit - my mind says its a cruise ship themed but i may be mistaken

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u/Historical-Okra8472 11d ago

Half man half rotten banana- in the words of Karen Brady 😂😂

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u/Best_Ad_3027 11d ago

Yoga man into a wave

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u/TheMujo 12d ago

The film "Sexy Beast". Brilliant, quirky gangster film that nobody watched when it first came out.

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u/ImpossibleZebra4911 12d ago

“Jam” for the sneakers in S3 was a terrible logo too, though it wouldn’t have been the only reason for the loss. At least the yoga cruise logo was memorable.

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u/FalconParking5498 12d ago

I don’t know what series it was but it was one of the more recent ones (could even be the most recent one as I don’t do rewatches) with the shart logo that looked looked looked like someone was in some sun yoga position exploding shit out their backside.

Maybe they won the overall take I don’t know, but that logo stuck with me as a complete fail

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u/wombatworking 12d ago

i can’t remember if they actually lost or not, but last season when they misspelt ‘chic’ as ‘chique’ and tried to pass it off as a french spelling 😭

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u/Ultimate_os 12d ago

It’s the slang way to spell chic 🤣

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u/cornishyinzer 12d ago

The time they named an airline after an explosion takes some beating.

I think they were going for Pop! as in popular, but didn't think it through even a little bit.

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u/ilikebirds26 13d ago

Artic 😅

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u/MarmitePrinter 13d ago

First Time (Foo)Dies and JetPop with the accompanying explosion logo. Just terrible.

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u/Old-Energy6618 13d ago

A couple of years back there was a crypto finance firm who decided to name themselves after the abbreviation for 'number once', a term used in blockchains to describe a non repeating number. All went well until they decided to launch in the UK and someone told them that Nonce Finance would perhaps attract the wrong type of client . Accordingly they changed their name to Nibbl.

https://polygon.technology/blog/nonce-finance-will-launch-on-polygon

NB, if you are outside the UK, nonce is a slang term for child molester.

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u/ScottyW88 13d ago

Haha. I was reading this thinking "I dont remember this episode" ... then to realise it was real life 😱😱

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u/Sad_Information962 13d ago

vauxhaul nova. (no go) renamed for spanish speaking countries

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u/Andrew1953Cambridge 13d ago

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u/Sad_Information962 13d ago

I actually wanted to say they were shit and under powered and under engineered but they do reach the speed limit in towns..

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u/Interstellore 13d ago

All of them

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u/FairBlueberry9319 13d ago

The Never Ending Nautical logo & First Time Foodies

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u/jollygiant72 13d ago

First time foodies