Future Logos After The Economic Crisis

The current worldwide financial crisis is probably the most serious economic crisis we have faced after the Great Depression. Stock markets from around the world fell as much as 20% in a single week, dozens of banks either failed or were rescued by governments and private institutions, and companies are laying off employees as a consequence of the reduced demand.

We know how we entered into the crisis, but we don’t know when or how we will be getting out of it. Considering that issue, the Spanker decided to do a little bit to help cheer everyone up by presenting the future logos of some renowned companies …. AFTER the crisis, with mergers, takeovers and bailouts having taken place.

Let's start with the obvious - 2009 is not a good year is it?

Financial services

AIG screwed everybody
the stock market is down
Lehman Brothers is facing bankruptcy

Motor Vehicles & Fuel
no need for captions, right?

Ford's attempts to sell cars is not working
Chrysler has been sold to Fiat
VW have stopped producing parts for older models

Ferrari sales are no longer galloping but limping along
so much so that Vespa are now considering buying Ferrari
while the fuel price hike has Shell laughing all the way to the bank
and they are considering buying over Dell Computers

F&B Services
Carrefour are in takeover discussion with Canon
Starbucks have been bought up by the Dark Side


service at KFC is really bad due to incompetent staff
and now the Colonel is forced to kill his own chickens due to lack of manpower
while McDonald's sales have also dropped due to poor service

and Apple Computers might inject capital in return for equity

Pizza Hut have resorted to selling hats to survive

Avian just realized that their name spelled backwards is naive

and 7-11 has stopped selling condoms

Religion

the owners of Facebook have become evangelists

and Lexus cars have changed name to tap the Christian market

Courier Services

people are getting bored waiting for FedEx

and overworked UPS staff continue to make wrong deliveries

Multimedia Services

Microsoft are losing sales

and are discussing a joint venture with Volkswagen

Sun Microsystems are feeling the effects of piracy

while IBM is praying for a GM style government bailout

similarly Hewlett Packard are in need of assistance

and might be taken over by JK Rowling

Dell Computers have died and gone to....

while Apple have lost big chunks of market share

Google has been forced to peddle porn to survive

Nokia is getting tough with bill defaulters

Many people are buying cheap cloned Sonys

Motorola is also in new partnership discussions

LG can now confirm that life is not always good

Miscellaneous Brands
Internet search engines have finished off the yellow pages
Tommy has reduced prices to cater to everyone
Nike has just done it with Nikon (merged the company lah)
Jebsen & Jessen have laid off all their employees
Lego sales have fallen due to their pride
the economic crisis has forced the Discovery Channel to diversify
Really, times are so bad now that Toys R Us are selling children.