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PowerBar

also referred to as: power bar

6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2016 by Gary Erickson · said 22 times in 5 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (10), Gary Erickson (10), Leigh Keith (1), Caue Suplicy (1)

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Everything said about PowerBar, oldest first

Oct 3, 2016 negative
Opinion
Erickson: PowerBars functioned as fuel but never tasted good
“They just, they're hard. They were, they never really did taste good, but we always, as bike racers, we always thought of them as the bitter pill, that they do the job, but it's not about taste.”
Gary Erickson Oct 3, 2016 ▶ 4:08 Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
Oct 3, 2016
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
PowerBar sued Clif Bar over ads, inadvertently creating industry buzz
“Our insurance picked up the tab, and we ended up settling with Power Bar, but it created this buzz in the bicycle industry where people said, hey, have you heard of Cliff Bar?”
Gary Erickson Oct 3, 2016 ▶ 9:39 Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
Oct 3, 2016 neutral
Assertion Supported
Erickson: PowerBar was the dominant cyclist energy bar in 1990
“The only energy bar really that was on the market at that time that so many cyclists were eating... It was Power Bar. And they were also from Berkeley, coincidentally.”
Gary Erickson Oct 3, 2016 ▶ 3:36 Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
Oct 3, 2016 neutral
Assertion Supported
Clif Bar was the last major independent after PowerBar sold
“Power Bar was already, already sold, and Balance Bar was sold, so it was just, it was kind of just us as the third.”
Gary Erickson Oct 3, 2016 ▶ 15:35 Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
May 9, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Erickson: PowerBar sued Clif Bar five days after a comparative print ad
“So we did some print ads and we did a print ad called It's Your Body, You Decide. And it was going directly after Power Bar. And in five days, we had a lawsuit against Power Bar.”
Gary Erickson May 9, 2024 ▶ 11:41 Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
May 9, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Erickson: Clif Bar added 700 retail accounts months after PowerBar lawsuit
“And we had 700 accounts in like months. And our goal Sounds very aggressive, but we're, our goal is to put them out of business, and for the first 10 to 15 years, our people were like, we are going to just go after their market share everywhere we could”
Gary Erickson May 9, 2024 ▶ 12:46 Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
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