Meanwhile, Father's Day spending is expected to drop 5% this year from 2008, according to a recent survey from market research firm Brand Keys.
Crew places second behind L.L. Bean on the customer loyalty index for retailers, according to Brand Keys, a New York-based firm that measure brand equity.
The firm has a brand-new drug for the second time in two years.
Group firm CG Foods' Wai Wai, a popular brand of instant brown noodles, was ranked as Nepal's top consumer brand by research firm acnielsen last year.
Fast Retailing, the firm behind budget fashion brand Uniqlo recently posted a sharp fall in sales.
Curiously, though, in spite of his firm's powerful brand, Mr Bose is openly disdainful of traditional marketing.
In May, Matsushita, the Japanese firm behind the Panasonic brand, announced that it would build the world's biggest plasma-display factory.
"We will be talking more about content brands rather than network brands, " said Tim Hanlon, from brand communications firm Starcom MediaVest.
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That could rankle some people, says Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, a brand consulting firm based in New York.
Known for its classy men's suits, the firm has a strong brand.
This article is by Barbara Apple Sullivan, the founder and managing partner of Sullivan, a New York City-based brand engagement firm.
Brand monitoring firm IP Lasso's study of 100 Oscar themed apps found 90 made use of material they might not have licences to reproduce.
But there is a lot of money to be made if the firm can make its brand as trusted on Main Street as on Wall Street.
"Naming is getting more and more complicated because everything you do is global, " says Allen Adamson, the managing director of brand consulting firm Landor Associates in New York.
To put this in perspective, during the PC era (which lasted for 20 years) this would have been the equivalent of combining Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Best Buy into one firm, selling one brand.
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This year saw the widespread adoption of a tactic for hiding malware delivery sites known as "fast flux, " says Laura Mather, a researcher at the Anti-Phishing Working Group committee and a senior scientist with digital brand protection firm MarkMonitor.
Think of it as a highly skilled funds-transfer firm with a giant global brand.
If a brand-tracking firm can't identify a contraband toy sold online, how can unsuspecting parents?
He started out after inheriting a small white-goods firm and buying the Ariston brand.
Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.
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Chris Malone is chief advisory officer of The Relational Capital Group, a research-based, brand relationship marketing firm located in Philadelphia.
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In 2008 he launched dancejam.com, and this past July Hammer started Alchemist Management, a brand-building firm for MMA fighters.
Shares in Supergroup, the firm behind the Superdry fashion brand, have jumped 19% after the company reported its "best-ever" Christmas trading.
This article is by Chris Malone, chief advisory officer of The Relational Capital Group, a research-based, brand relationship marketing firm located in Philadelphia.
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That's the finding of a study released Tuesday by brand abuse tracking firm, MarkMonitor, measuring the disturbing growth of counterfeit drug sales on the Web.
The firm had resurrected the historic brand in response to the decision by German rivals BMW to take control of the Rolls Royce marque, and Volkswagen's acquisition of Bentley.
BMW, the firm reckons that the sportier Bentley brand has more potential (it easily outsells Rolls-Royce).
Beauty Products in America, '40s-'60s, and president of GTK Marketing Group, a brand and product development firm.
Allen Adamson is managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consulting and design firm.
Allen Adamson is managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm.
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