It is difficult to walk into a boutique selling brand new, factory fresh luxury watches without being lulled into letting your guard down by the indisputably seductive atmosphere brand boutiques attempt (with varying degrees of success) to create.
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At Gardner's brand-new Derby factory, there is a cell of workers developing aircraft parts.
But a Consumer Reports analysis found that the FDA was as likely to warn about manufacturing issues at a brand-name drug factory as a generic one, Dr. Santa says.
' Joe Fresh brand were found at recent factory accidents in Bangladesh.
Today, McCashins remains a mainstay of the Nelson scene, brewing under the Stoke brand in the same cider factory, hosting daily tours and tastings, plus live music and a Saturday market in their bar and cafe.
The Menznau Kronospan factory, which makes wood products under the brand name Kronoswiss, is one of 10 plants in seven countries run by the Swiss Krono Group, according to the company's website.
General Motors laid out a massive restructuring plan Monday that will include cutting 21, 000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and closing its Pontiac brand.
But profits were slim, and it was during this period that Song decided the factory needed to make finished products and to own the brand.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, whose malls sell cheap name-brand clothing, is estimated to be up 7.2%, which is 2.7 points better than this REIT's five-year record.
"Every time a different brand's audit team goes into a factory, the factory has to move the fire extinguishers to be in compliance, " said Sandra Cho, corporate responsibility manager for Columbia Sportswear, which manufactures some clothing in Bangladesh.
Its cloth factory in Gujarat was legendary for efficiency, and its Vimal brand became a household word.
The in-house agency is the brand, just like the sales guys, the factory workers, the engineers, the designers, and the products themselves.
With his own factory, Korndorf hopes to catch Ingersoll-Rand's Bobcat brand, the market leader.
Now with his own factory, Korndorf hopes to catch Ingersoll-Rand's Bobcat brand, the market leader.
Today, the company's brand new, state-of-the-art factory produces 10, 000 bottles of gin and ready-to-drink vodka, as well as 15, 000 bottles of beer, per hour.
Two brand new versions of the car are being built at the BMW factory at Cowley in Oxfordshire - a standard Mini and a more sporty Mini Cooper model.
Why put capital into a factory when you can put it into something much more valuable like a brand?
The South's state-owned Tobacco and Ginseng Corporation ships tobacco leaves to a factory in Pyongyang, where they are made into the Hanmaum (One Mind) brand of cigarettes.
And Whirlpool's washing-machine factory now makes appliances under contract for Kelon, which sells them under its own brand, a reversal of the usual hierarchy between western and Chinese firms.
The company with the brand name or a clever marketing idea isn't necessarily the one with the factory.
In May, Matsushita, the Japanese firm behind the Panasonic brand, announced that it would build the world's biggest plasma-display factory.
Strong brand image, geographical expansion, and new pricing and promotional policies in the North American factory business also supported the growth.
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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Nextel phones, which consist mostly of a line of phones produced by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) under the iDen brand, are the phones of choice for messengers in New York City, construction workers, factory managers and others who are in constant communication with a select group of other people equipped with similar phones.
Ann Taylor factory stores offer past season best sellers from the Ann Taylor stores at discounted prices and are extensions of the brand in the outlet environment.
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