BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” positioning backfired due to the Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster. A firm can spend many years building a reputation, and it can be tarnished in a single day through an event that destroys the confidence of customers and other stakeholders. In this case, BP became the target of almost every group on the Gulf Coast negatively impacted by the environmental effects of the oil spill. BP’s attempt to move its product away from being a commodity like those of its competitors failed. In fact, about the only strategy available for BP was to apologize and try to compensate the victims of the disaster. One of the worst things that can happen is to make claims of being a sustainable company and then be involved in a disaster that is just opposite, A priority for BP’s future marketing strategies, as least for its consumer product, is to restore its reputation as much as possible and build a foundation for more realistic and authentic marketing activities to build strong relationship and trust with consumer.