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Here's how much the world's most iconic logos cost companies to design them

Some of the biggest companies in the world spend hundreds of millions of dollars on their logo – while others spent nothing.

THE PRICE TAG for some of the most iconic logos of all time vary drastically.

While some of the most iconic brands in the world cost hundreds of millions of euros to create, others got away with a check for just $15 (around €12). Some spent nothing.

A good logo is crucial for a company’s branding strategy.

While Pepsi recently redesigned its bottle, it decided to keep its logo, which it redesigned in 2008 for $1 million. (Signing Beyonce as a multi-year brand ambassador cost the company $50 million – almost €40 million.)

Stock Logos—a site that offers, well, stock logos—has compiled a list that reveals how much Coca-Cola, Nike, BP, and other companies spent creating their logos.

But you’ll be surprised which companies spent millions and which spent the cost of a cinema ticket on their iconic images.

Coca-Cola: €0
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  • Coca-Cola: €0

  • Google: €0

  • Microsoft: €0

  • Twitter: €11

  • Nike: €27

  • Enron: €25,700

  • Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games: €74,000

  • London 2012 Olympics: €485,000

  • Pepsi: €780,000

  • BBC: €1.4 million

  • Accenture: €79 million

  • BP: €164 million

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    Mute Antoin O Lachtnain
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    Apr 1st 2013, 7:20 PM

    The cases mix up the cost of designing the logo and mark with the cost of implementing it. The BP rebrand was so expensive because of how much signage had to be changed all over the world.

    If it is done on a gradual basis (as Irish Rail are doing for example) it costs very little. You just renew signage with the new mark as the old signage wears out.

    Quite often these rebrands are supposed to be internally symbolic. They mark a major change in an organisation’s development. The costs of these changes of direction are usually confounded with the rebranding.

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    Mute KM
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    Apr 1st 2013, 7:05 PM

    Imagine being payed 1.4million by the BBC and having the audacity to produce that. By no means a bad logo but sure someone at the BBC could have rustled that up themselves

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    Mute Hippocrateeth
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    Apr 1st 2013, 6:42 PM

    According to this, I’m actually worth about €78 million.

    Catch you drips later.

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    Mute Niall Patrick Kennedy
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    Apr 1st 2013, 6:45 PM

    10 and 11 were ripped off
    “Hey we have millions here to spend on a new logo”
    “Hang on a second and let me open Microsoft Word”

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    Mute brian
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    Apr 1st 2013, 7:20 PM

    I think the last couple are misleading. They are not the cost of the logo but of rebranding. That includes changing every petrol station and van/tanker logos in BPs case. British airways changed all their tail fins some years ago and I think it was 100 million. Then they changed them back as so many People complained.

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    Apr 1st 2013, 7:37 PM

    Accenture? Ass-enter more like….

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    Apr 1st 2013, 11:13 PM

    Ha! Classic!

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    Apr 2nd 2013, 1:04 AM

    Every time i see the olympics logo it just looks like lisa Simpson going down on bart, how was this not noticed before it was released?

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    Mute Patrick Murphy
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    Apr 1st 2013, 9:54 PM

    BBC. 1.4 million. Seriously?

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    Mute The Brass Rat
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    Apr 2nd 2013, 7:29 AM

    Accenture IT consultants in my opinion are the biggest chancers and spoofers in the business.

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    Apr 1st 2013, 7:40 PM

    Red sells…

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    Mute Niall de Buitlear
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    Jan 29th 2014, 2:24 PM

    The Google, Coca Cola, Twitter logos have been redesigned multiple times. The designers who did that work were paid.

    Most of the large amounts were for more than just a logo design and many of the low amounts are highly questionable. If windows logos were designed internally the staff’s wages are still an expense that has to be accounted for.

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