Case Name :      dpms. – The Price of Earned Media

Authors :           Julia Cutt, Mary Weil

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W14386

Discipline :        Entrepreneurship

Case Length :    05 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

In April 2014, the co-founder of lifestyle brand dpms., situated in London, Ontario, has a dilemma. Started as an opportunity to showcase her partner’s graphic designs, dpms. first produced silk-screened t-shirts, then branched into jewelry and other locally produced products as the company succeeded. They maintain a booth at a weekly farmers’ and artisans’ market and travel to other festivals around the province but rely mainly on word-of-mouth promotion and their social media presence to advertise their wares. She was excited about an article that was to appear in a local newspaper, but when the article was published, it contained several inaccuracies. She is deciding how she should handle the situation and how the options to confront or not confront the reporter will reflect on her fledgling company.