Just because a company is good at selling one thing doesn’t mean consumers will buy something else from them. While some “brand extensions” make sense—Hershey’s chocolate milk, for example—others, like these, are just weird.
• Cheetos lip balm
• Colgate frozen dinners
• Tootsie Roll earphones
• Humane Society Dog Lovers’ Wine Club
• Sony PlayStation snacks
• Harley Davidson perfume
• LifeSavers soda
• Donald Trump steaks
• Bumble Bee chicken
• Frito-Lay lemonade
• Cosmopolitan yogurt
• Smith & Wesson bicycles
• Burger King underwear
• Girls Gone Wild clothing
• Jeff Gordon wine
• Sylvester Stallone’s High Protein Pudding
• Disney’s Sleeping Beauty executive fountain pen ($1,200)
• Snoop Dogg pet accessories
• Barbie clothing…for adult women
• Pierre Cardin cigarettes
• Hooters Airline
• Salvador Dali deodorant
• Willie Nelson biodiesel fuel
• Diesel Jeans wine
• Starburst shampoo
• Precious Moments coffins
• Disney milk
• Chicken Soup for the Soul dog food
Celebrity phobia: Matthew McConaughey is afraid of revolving doors.