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Burger King Case Study

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Background
Burger King is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King,in Jacksonville, Florida. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1955, its two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchased the company and renamed it Burger King. Over the next half century the company would change hands four times, with its third set of owners, a partnership of TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, taking it public in 2002. In late 2010 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake in Burger King in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.
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The 1970s were the "Golden Age" of Burger King advertising, but beginning in the early 1980s, the company's advertising began to lose focus; a series of less successful ad campaigns created by a procession of advertising agencies continued for the next two decades. In 2003, Burger King hired the Miami-based advertising agency of Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B). CP+B completely reorganized Burger King's advertising with a series of new campaigns centered on a redesigned Burger King character accompanied with a new online presence. While highly successful, some of CP+B commercials have been derided for perceived sexism or cultural insensitivity.

ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
- Crispin Porter + Bogusky:
Is an advertising agency that currently employs around 1,000 people. Sam Crispin founded it in1965. Crispin then became partners with Chuck Porter and Alex Bogusky. As of 2011, Porter is the only member still working for CP+B.
CP+B experienced rapid growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, achieving notoriety on the strength of work for Burger King, BMW MINI, and anti-smoking campaign TheTruth.com. The agency’s current client list includes Coke Zero, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Phone, American Express OPEN and Travel, Best Buy, Domino's Pizza, Old Navy, Jell-O, Bolthouse Farms - Baby Carrots, Vail Resorts, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, MetLife, Vitaminwater, Milka, Molson Canadian, SAS, Philips, and Discovery Channel UK.
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