His latest deal is a partnership with Minnesota snack company KLN Family Brands to form Dale Jr.
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This acquisition builds on that foundation and combines two of the strongest family entertainment brands in the world.
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GameStop's retail network and family of brands include 6, 614 company-operated stores in 15 countries worldwide and online at www.
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While Toyota is adding a brand, GM's family of brands is shrinking. (It's selling Hummer, and winding down Pontiac, Saturn and Saab).
These are people who not only spend hours on the service engaging with friends, family and brands but look at and, hopefully, click on advertising.
However, the recent experience of Unilever, the world's largest consumer-goods firm, suggests that managing a big family of brands that differ from one market to another is horribly complicated.
The acquisition combines two highly compatible family entertainment brands, and strengthens the long-standing beneficial relationship between them that already includes successful integration of Star Wars content into Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris and Tokyo.
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The cooler fad eventually cooled, but the Sands family kept juggling brands and varieties.
Paramount also did a better job hyping its brands to get family traffic.
Controlled by the Lauder family, EL has about 20 brands, including, of course, Estee Lauder and Clinique.
Prada is one of the few big Italian firms that seems intent on keeping family control, even as it adds brands to its stable.
It also explores the impact core values such as faith, community and family have on purchase decisions and how many brands dismiss this important cultural segment.
Papyrus, which started as a small family wholesale operation, has grown to include the brands Carlton Cards, American Greetings, Paper Thread, and four hundred and fifty Papyrus retail stores nationwide.
Family-controlled Trinity brings together six international menswear brands.
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Bacardi (which owns five top brands) is an old-style, family-controlled firm that would have trouble raising large sums of cash to bid.
Industry sources polled in recent years by mergermarket have been reluctant to identify Constellation Brands as a takeover target because its founding Sands family remains its largest shareholder.
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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.
One common theme for the brands with low scores in value-creation is the presence of family ownership.
His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert Mondavi Winery, had the curtain crash down on his own first act when the family lost control of the winery after it went public and was purchased by Constellation Brands, the creators of Wild Irish Rose, in 2004.
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It remains to be seen whether Jackson Family Wines will create an estate winery or use the vineyard as a source for other brands.
The Gene Simmons brands has Gene Simmons records, Gene Simmons comic books and the Gene Simmons Family Jewels show, which lasted 9 seasons and any number of other Gene Simmons marketing and expos.
When Mr Ackerman took the top job in 1996, replacing James Houghton of the firm's founding family, the company was still a slow-growing conglomerate best known for its retail brands, such as Pyrex and Corning Ware.
George and his team have built Star Wars into one of the most successful and enduring family entertainment franchises in history, as well as one of the best selling licensed character merchandise brands in the U.S. and around the world.
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He helped in the family restaurant business until 1998, when it was hit by the Asia financial crisis (they owned the brands Hanamasa and Pronto).
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