Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.
When I went looking for a new car every friend I had suggested I buy a foreign brand.
Datsun was discontinued in 1986, despite being the second largest selling foreign brand in the United States just a few years prior.
Therefore, foreign brand milk powder sells for a huge premium in China.
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If the Japanese firm can keep up its momentum, this will be the first time that one of the Big Three has been overtaken by a foreign brand.
Can you image any other country in the world that its government officials consume everything, except of air, from clothes, phones, hats, milk, fruits, etc, made in foreign countries or foreign brand?
But their products are usually several times more expensive than domestic alternatives, partly because they work better, and partly because consumers are willing to pay a premium for the cachet of a foreign brand.
"As Indian consumers become more upwardly mobile and more exposed to foreign brand names, it is inevitable that the Indian consumer will upgrade himself and move up the value chain and try out better brands, so I think that is what UB is trying to prevent, " he said.
The agreement, drafted by the U.S.-based International Labor Rights Forum and labor groups in Bangladesh in the aftermath of a deadly fire in a garment factory in Dhaka in December 2010, has so far failed to get the support of most big-brand foreign clothing companies.
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There will be people on the right of the Conservative party who see him as a cheerleader for Margaret Thatcher's brand of foreign and domestic policies who wish he could have stayed.
Foreign investors say that while opening the "single brand" retail market to 100% foreign ownership was a positive step, allowing in "multibrand" retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Foreign fund managers with good brand names, such as Fidelity and Mercury, are even trying direct marketing.
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He's concerned that foreign manufacturers are using the brand "England" to mislead consumers, and wants the trading standards authorities to investigate.
In 2011, it permitted 100% foreign ownership in single-brand retail outlets, through which a company sells only its own brand of goods.
The steps included clearance for foreign investment in the multi-brand retail and civil aviation sectors, and a decision to allow gradual increases in the price of highly-subsidized diesel.
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It recently opened up key sectors such as multi-brand retail and aviation to foreign investors.
It has opened up key sectors such as multi-brand retail and aviation to foreign investors.
However, what these brand-obsessed parents, foreign or domestic, still do not realize is that the curtain has been pulled back from the mystique of high-priced higher education.
During the debate on Wednesday, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma defended Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.
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Underscoring that, it is entering into a 50-50 partnership with Tata despite the recent easing of India's convoluted investment rules that now allow for 100% foreign ownership of stores that sell just a single brand of goods.
"Big developers like Greenland and China Vanke have wider brand recognition compared to the smaller firms and foreign firms, " said Mr. Zhang.
After a two-day heated debate, MPs in the Lok Sabha (lower house) approved the plan to allow foreign investment of up to 51% in multi-brand retail.
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In his determination to be the "un-Bush, " he has declared his intention to repair what some have called "Brand America" and to pursue a nonideological foreign policy of multilateralism and moderation.
Much like their foreign peers, Americans look to see if they recognize the brand name and they buy, over and done.
Much like small-cap stocks (which suffer from a lack of brand name, too), emerging market and foreign developed country stocks can give your portfolio the extra gas it needs.
By appearing carelessly to brand Republicans as isolationists, and by fuelling partisanship in foreign policy, the administration makes the task much harder.
At the start of the year, New Delhi lawmakers said they would allow for multinationals and foreign investors in general, including private equity firms, to acquire multi-brand retail outlets.
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So far, so good: Yahoo's foreign audience is several times that of AOL, the second-biggest international Internet brand.
"The first step to conquering the challenges" of expanding a brand across borders "lies in understanding what matters most to consumers in foreign markets, then finding ways to make emotional connections with those consumers abroad, " says Nicolas Georges Trad, a Reputation Institute executive partner.
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