June 18, 2018
Ding dong, the Tronc is dead! Not the company, that is, but simply the word Tronc itself. According to a new report from the New York Post, anonymous sources say the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing is going back to its original name. This comes after years of public derision over the name Tronc.
Tronc, mind you, is not the only company that has suffered a miscalculated rebranding. Here is a surely non-exhaustive list of other corporate rebrands that didn’t go over as planned.
And now we can add Tronc to this list. Though some of these corporation names still remain, they are all generally considered corporate disasters. For now, the question remains for Tronc: Will going back to its original name alleviate any of its other problems? Probably not.
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