The management judgment of fast or slow rebranding turned on the customer and organizational
response of the acquired market and acquired company. Usually the national brand was kept
alive for some time until the dust of the takeover battle had settled. Vodafone then carefully
launched its phased rebranding campaign to bring the new subsidiary under the "Vodafone"
umbrella. Usually, they added "Vodafone" to the original corporate brand. To better coordinate
these branding efforts, Vodafone appointed David Ilaines, a former Coca-Cola manager, as global
brand director." Davin Haines explained,