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AT&T will blanket Times Square in New York with the message "Your World Delivered" to convince customers the San Antonio-based company can meet all their communications needs,sac burberry, Shelley Almager, director of advertising, said.
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"This is a substantially different company,burberry soldes," Almager said.
(Bloomberg News)
The company is trying to redefine the AT&T brand name after the US$16.5 billion combination that closed in November. Chief Executive Officer Edward Whitacre kept the AT&T name because of its international recognition and a 128-year tradition of innovation. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone,doudoune moncler, founded what later became American Telephone & Telegraph.
"They have got to change the world's view of the company,louboutin pas cher," Kagan said. "It's something that goes way beyond what they've done in the past."
SBC has a history of spending big on advertising. The company was the fifth-largest US advertiser with US$2.69 billion spent in 2004,abercrombie, according to Advertising Age magazine.