Mr. Bradford also has extensive marketing-management experience, serving as Chief Marketing Officer at WebMD from 1998 to 2000.

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Over the past 12 months, Kodak's financial advisor, Lazard, has conducted an extensive marketing process for these assets.

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Apple's success has been driven by its popular ecosystem of iPhones and App Store, generous carrier subsidies, and extensive marketing around the new iPhone 5 model.

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Pixar's extensive marketing of "Monsters University" includes promotional materials that mimic actual college mailers and websites, including a message from the dean and sections on campus life and admissions.

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With more than 260 channel partners around the world, Stratasys can leverage the extensive geographic reach of its marketing and sales organization to serve customers and grow awareness of 3D printing for rapid prototyping and production.

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For most big budget movies nowadays that ratio is reversed and Paramount sought to improve it this go-around with a more costly foreign marketing campaign and more extensive global publicity tour.

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We got that list from Mr. Youth, a social media and youth marketing research company, which just released an extensive look at the kids who will soon be puking in a dorm bathroom near you.

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It already has a marketing network in place, though it is not as extensive as Maruti's.

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Extensive collections, innovative displays and strong research have helped foster public support, but it is aggressive marketing that brings in the public.

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