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Coppertone (sunscreen)

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Coppertone
Product typeSunscreen
OwnerBeiersdorf
CountryU.S.
Introduced1944
Previous ownersBayer
Merck & Co., Inc.
Schering-Plough
Registered as a trademark inU.S., Canada
Websitecoppertone.com

Coppertone is the brand name for an American sunscreen.[1][2] Coppertone uses a variety of branding, including the Coppertone girl logo and a distinctive fragrance.

One of the few remaining ads in existence, on the side of a building in Miami

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Product line

The original product dates to 1944, when pharmacist Benjamin Green invented a lotion to darken tans.[3] The product line has been expanded to include many skin care products, predominantly sunscreens. Coppertone has become the leading sun care brand in the United States, with annual $9 billion in global sales.[3]

Branding

Coppertone name

The name Coppertone originated from its marketing of suntan lotion, as opposed to sunscreen.[3]

Coppertone girl

In the time when the product was a suntan lotion, the company introduced the character the Coppertone girl, also known as Little Miss Coppertone. In the advertisement, a young blond girl in pigtails stares in surprise as a Cocker Spaniel puppy tugs at her swimsuit, revealing her tan line.[3]

Logo history

The original Coppertone logo was the profile of an aboriginal chief. In 1953, Tally Embry Advertising in Florida was hired, and their ad men created the concept of the little girl and the pup. An artist named Joyce Ballantyne Brand re-drew the little girl in 1959 when the original artwork was destroyed in a fire. She was then working for Grant Advertising in New York.[4]

Coppertone sign

A series of mechanical billboards were constructed across the United States, whereon the motorized dog and swimsuit bottoms rocked up and down perpetually. Although most of them are long since gone or have stopped moving, one such billboard of the then Coppertone Girl still stands in Miami Beach — dog, pigtails, swimsuit, bottom, and all.

Live models

When Joyce Ballantyne Brand redrew the logo in 1959, she purportedly used her daughter, Cheri, as her model, and her drawing closely resembled the original artwork.[4]

Fragrances

Many Coppertone products share a distinctive fragrance. Chandler Burr described it as "arguably the single greatest work of scent branding ever."[5] A researcher on human memory used it as an example of an odor that evokes autobiographical memories.[6] Besides for the classic fragrance, the Coppertone product line has expanded to include other scents.[3]

An early slogan for Coppertone was, "Tan, don't burn".[3]

Ownership

  • 1944 Benjamin Green develops a suntan lotion
  • 1957 Plough acquires Coppertone
  • 1971 Schering Corporation merges with Plough to form Schering-Plough
  • 2009 Merck & Co. acquires Schering-Plough
  • 2014 Bayer acquires Merck & Co.'s consumer business, including Coppertone[7]
  • 2019 Beiersdorf AG announces agreement to acquire Coppertone from Bayer. According to Beiersdorf's president, the purchase will strengthen the company's presence in the USA market.[8] Beiersdorf already owns Nivea, whose Nivea Sun is a leading sunscreen in Europe.[7]

Competitors

Circa 2018, competing brands included Neutrogena and Banana Boat.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Real Florida: Red-faced with the Coppertone Girl". St. Petersburg Times. September 5, 2004. Retrieved September 6, 2004.
  2. ^ T.M. Shine (July 4, 1993). "Sun Screening: It's The Little Miss Coppertone". The Seattle Times.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Coppertone: Creating the Leading Sun Care Brand by Understanding Consumers". www.chegg.com (Study aid for Kerin and Hartley, Marketing: the core, 2018, McGraw Hill Education). Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  4. ^ a b NYT Staff (May 18, 2006). "Joyce B. Brand, Commercial Artist, Dies at 88". New York Times.
  5. ^ Burr, Chandler (May 11, 2010). "Scent Notes | Ocean Currents". T Magazine. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  6. ^ Herz, Rachel S. (March 1, 2004). "A Naturalistic Analysis of Autobiographical Memories Triggered by Olfactory Visual and Auditory Stimuli". Chemical Senses. 29 (3): 217–224. doi:10.1093/chemse/bjh025. ISSN 0379-864X. PMID 15047596.
  7. ^ a b "Nivea-maker Beiersdorf buys Coppertone for $550 million". Reuters. May 13, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  8. ^ "Beiersdorf to Take Coppertone from Bayer". chemanager-online. Wiley. Retrieved August 25, 2019.

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