As Facebook and Twitter explode, companies are awkwardly confronted with the consequences social media can have on workplace relations and the company image.
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The survey of 4, 000 current customers measured satisfaction with call quality, company image, account management, initial activation, service plan options, and customer service, with Virgin scoring 751 on a 1, 000-point scale.
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Perhaps more interesting than the rankings, though, was the finding that customers of MVNOs (like Virgin) ranked their services higher in account management and cost, while direct services (like T-Mobile) fared better in areas like company image and call quality.
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For a company whose image has grown staid in recent years--its mainstay is still printers and computers and the company largely missed out on the first big Internet wave--HP is trying to get back on the cutting edge track.
The company uses image-matching technology to identify the objects inside of images.
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The bottom line: Toyota Camry LE has a company brand image, while Honda Civic LX has product brand image, which make it difficult for the two companies to generate the necessary Word-of-Mouth and buzz to keep the two models on the best-selling list of consumers.
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Instead, Samsung's ads, which are meant to promote the products and elevate the company's image, will stick with the company's "Samsung Digitall:Everyone's invited" slogan.
Huawei's announcement could help the company boost its image in the U.S., where Huawei executives complain the company has been unfairly restricted in the market, despite having forged partnerships with major operators across Europe, the Middle East and Canada.
BAe, for example, wants a new company made in its own image: a private company with a wide shareholder base.
The company released an image of an apparent rodent carcass inside the switchboard unit.
For some, Disney sentimentality and bad labour relations may have tarnished the company's image.
It's been enough to spur the Wal-Mart PR machine to work overtime trying to soften the company's image.
Some photo issues are more subtle than Mr. Griffin's, but can do just as much to hurt a company's image.
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Such recalls can be disastrous for a food company's image and reputation.
In order to reduce shake, the company customized Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), which detects a camera's movement with a built-in gyroscope, compensating accordingly.
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The accident, which the company has blamed on the ship's captain, has soured the company's image in the midst of the industry's peak booking period.
Not helping the company's image on Wall Street was the departure last fall of the chief executive, with the chief counsel close on his heels.
Yet few founders are so inextricably linked with their company's image.
Telling Rometty to be a good girl and wait a little longer with IBM's collusion would be a disaster -- not only for the company's image, but for Rometty's credibility as its leader.
Rubies Costume Company, which makes the mask, sells around 100, 000 a year worldwide, and 16, 000 in the UK, according to spokesman Steve Kitt, who seems a little concerned that any association with activists might harm the company's image.
To help the company improve its image and internet presence, he creates and writes content for a website called GEAdventure.com, which tells stories of cool (and heart-warming) products the company makes, like incubators for premature babies.
Mercedes-Benz accidentally touched the third rail of South Florida politics when the company used an image of Che Guevara, a leader of the Castro revolution in Cuba, in a tongue-in-cheek reference in a presentation at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show this week.
In the modern world, however, self-indulgence and feudal flim-flam corrode both the company's external image and its internal ethics.
Public relations giant Burson-Marsteller, a WPP member company, specialises in image and crisis management for major companies and governments.
Perhaps it's because some of the racier boudoir garb that let her dress like a very bad girl doesn't fit the company's new image.
Ironically, tobacco-chewing Wagner forced the tobacco company to pull his image from the card because he did not believe in promoting cigarettes to children.
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Emerging from a highly scientific background, the company first applied its image recognition technology to online retailers or businesses who wanted to remove pornographic images from their websites.
Kodak's new logo was nowhere to be seen at the company's CES booth, no doubt because the branding was unveiled after the show opened (though we can't help but think that any company serious about its image would have gremlins updating the booth while the rest of us sleep to bring it up-to-date).
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