New Belgium Brewing: A Case Study

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During its early years New Belgium Brewing (NBB) existed by word of mouth advertising. Its owner’s traveled from beer festival to beer festival taking their product, giving out samples, and passing the word along. However, with time, NBB began a more formal marketing program to increase sales and brand recognition. One of its earliest campaigns was “Follow Your Folly…… Ours is Beer” (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). There was initial controversy at the company over the choice of the word folly. Several felt that the word had fallen out of popular use and could be easily misinterpreted in a negative connotation. While folly can mean foolishness, idiocy, silliness or craziness. So in a way, the ad could be seen as the company wanting customers