COO or Country of Origin Effect refers to the practice of marketers and consumers associating brands with countries and making buying decisions made on the country of origin of the product. For instance, as we shall discuss later, we tend to associate quality with the Japanese and precision with the Swiss. This means that products and brands from these countries are usually purchased or discarded depending upon our perceptions of the value associated with these countries. In brief, the country of origin effect measures the impact of the country in which the product is made on the consumers. In recent years, there has been a lot of research on how the COO effect influences consumers and this has led to a renewed effort to associate and dissociate the products from the countries that they are made in. Though association for gains in obvious, what is also to be noted that there can be a negative impact of COO as is evidenced in the examples that are discussed later. It would suffice to state here is that COO must be approached in a scientific manner by conducting market research in the target countries on how the consumers