Schumpeter | Bloody brands

Dictating the market

By B.S. | PARIS

UNLIKE sex, despotism doesn’t usually sell. That doesn’t stop some marketers from trying. Entrepreneurs around the world are profiting from businesses and products named after blood-stained dictators.

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