Borden Inc.: Elsie The Cow campaign

After a 20-year retirement from advertising, Elsie the Cow returned as the corporate mascot for Borden Incorporated in March 1993 as the centerpiece of a $20 million campaign orchestrated by Ketchum PR of New York.

Borden Inc.: Elsie The Cow campaign

William Baue

Overview

After a 20-year retirement from advertising, Elsie the Cow returned as the corporate mascot for Borden Incorporated in March 1993 as the centerpiece of a $20 million campaign orchestrated by Ketchum PR of New York. Though there was great fanfare, the move was not as much a celebration of Elsie's return as it was a desperate attempt to consolidate what, in a 1992 Business Week article, then CEO Anthony D'Amato called "a fragmented, out-of-date organization that is not up to the increasing pressures of today's economy."

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