All that market power should give Postl leverage with retailers like Wal-Mart, one of Pennzoil-Quaker State's biggest customers, when he wants to squeeze smaller brands off the shelves to make more room for Pennzoil and Quaker State.
Brands closed off a difficult first quarter marked by a probe into the quality of its chicken by Chinese regulators and the avian flu scare, which conspired to push profits there down 40%.
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Fortune Brands Home and Security, which spun off from Fortune Brands just two weeks ago ( read about the spinoffs here) is poised to capitalize on a housing recovery.
Slower than expected growth in China has also thrown stocks like Yum Brands and Starbucks off their highs over the last couple of months.
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Even with its street-lingo name, Skechers is one of few popular fashion brands to take off among suburban teens without first being embraced by the rap crowd.
FBHS, a Fortune Brands spin-off that manufactures faucets, cabinets and security products, is poised to explode if the housing market chews through its excess inventory begins to recover.
Other Chinese spin-off brands of popular American websites have faced success from going public in America, such as Youtube-esque Youku (NYSE: YOKU), shopping site Dangdang (NYSE: DANG), and digital search engine Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU).
Just a couple weeks ago, my friend and fellow blogger Jayson Bryant visited the U.K., and filed this dispatch about how many cheap, one-off brands of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc line store shelves in that country.
This was thinned down dramatically through scrapping unproductive marques and selling off uneconomic brands.
The born-again Gregory brothers worked a financial miracle from cast-off drug brands.
Hostess was ready to auction off the brands, but the company notified bankruptcy court today that the Apollo-Metropoulos group was the only qualified bid.
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The Swiss watch brands, still shaking off the near-death stupor of the quartz era, suddenly found this German phoenix uncomfortably hard on their heels.
Among the largest underlying components of FXG, in trading today Bunge Ltd. ( NYSE: BG) is off about 1.3%, Constellation Brands Inc ( NYSE: STZ) is off about 0.5%, and Archer Daniels Midland Co. ( NYSE: ADM) is lower by about 0.8%.
Hostess Brands has now shut down and is going into final bankruptcy liquidation, killing 18, 500 jobs and selling off its factories, brands and other assets.
Most producers and importers contacted will acknowledge problems with counterfeiters knocking off domestic Chinese brands, but no further.
It also led to a number of spin-off sub-brands, such as Bike4Life and Walk4Life, which were used by local schemes to get people active.
Limited Brands billionaire Leslie Wexner kicked off the yacht wars in 1997 when he launched the 316-foot Limitless, at the time 110 feet longer than any other boat.
The irony, of course is that kids claim to want novelty, but the disparity between this desire and the reality of their fear of the unknown has all too often left food brands pulling overly innovative products off shelves.
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But when the last descendant of the Houbigant family fell ill in the 1980s and began selling off the perfume brands, Michele Perris and his relatives, longtime devotees of the French brand, decided they had better start buying them.
Once-upon-a-laugh-track, many brands kept the humor strictly off camera, but Brand Keys has put one of those categories under the research microscope to see how humor is working in a field once thought far too serious to put in the hands of comedy: Car Insurance.
Mr Clarke says there is little overlap between the power brands and the businesses being sold off.
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The owner of Mr Kipling and Oxo is selling off a number of brands to cut its debt levels.
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It is an expensive strategy but one they hope will turn Chinese consumer brands into household names that trip off the tongues of shoppers worldwide.
First off, the Bud brands are overwhelmingly in the male domain.
Third, where should endorsement income be invested for off-the-court brands like Michael Jordan?
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The deal, which includes several factories, caps Hostess's efforts to sell off popular cake and bread brands as it winds down operations this year.
In addition to those changes, Johnson has said that Penney is starting to see some positive results from its makeover of stores with sectioned-off shops that feature different brands.
Augmented reality, which is a Name You Need To Know in 2011, has been around for the last year or so, having been picked up by a few big brands like BMW and Adidas to show off how innovative they can be.
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Ford revamped its lineup, sold off some of its non-core brands, and restructured some of its debts and union obligations.
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Oishi quickly won the ready-to-drink tea market, surpassing genuine Japanese brands such as Kirin and Pokka, and fending off foreign and local newcomers that also conveyed messages of a clean, green Japanese lifestyle.
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