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Daniel P. Amos, Aflac Inc.’s chief executive, took a big risk in 2000 by launching a nationwide ad campaign mocking the insurer’s name. Yet the TV commercials, where a duck loudly quacks “Aflaaaac,” paid off.

Source: finance.yahoo.com