One region where the mobile ecosystem is likely to gain increasing focus of brands is the Middle East.
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This time, I will focus on the brands or manufacturers that sell through multiple retail channels.
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Until now, most ladies timepieces have been quartz or simply sized-down mechanical men's watches, but women were a major focus for several brands at the show.
The sale follows the corporation's commercial review last year which set out the company's strategy to focus on BBC brands and promote the best of its output globally.
To boost returns, Park says, he'll focus on core brands, boost ad spending, pare the number of wine-stock-keeping units and reduce the low-margin private-brand business for European chain stores.
Each of these venerable brands has been besmirched by severe times and still successfully transformed their focus and approach to their brands and business models.
The company wants to focus on four core brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC.
Yum is planning to focus even more on brands that are successful in emerging markets.
Ralph Lauren also discontinued its Rugby brand to focus on more profitable brands.
Instead of branded entertainment, we need to focus on making entertainment brands.
"This divestment is a major step forward in our strategy to simplify the business and focus on our power brands, " said Premier's chief executive Michael Clarke.
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With thousands of brand ideas, experiences, messages and apps flooding consumers daily it is critical that the best brands bring focus to their efforts, energy and investment in order to create marketplace impact.
"There is too much attention over and over on those brands that really have started to make changes" in the West, and not enough focus on lesser-known Asia brands that also serve giant markets, said Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser at Better Factories Cambodia, a project of the International Labour Organization that works to improve factory conditions in the Southeast Asian country.
Unlike Coca-Cola though, PepsiCohas a greater focus on snack foods with brands like Doritos and Quaker Oats.
The company said it would now focus on developing its global brands division which is based in Soho, London.
But Ford says 10, 000 Focus owners defect to other brands each year because it doesn't offer an attractive step-up model.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people ), though, Pepsi has a greater focus on snack foods with brands like Doritos and Quaker Oats.
Over the last decade, Heinz has undergone significant restructuring shedding its less profitable non-core businesses with greater resource focus on core products and brands, product development and marketing.
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The firm says it will continue to acquire luxury brands such as Kate Spade, which it bought last December, to focus on customers who find private-label brands unappealing.
Unilever, he says, has to do more than merely focus on a streamlined bunch of brands.
In turn, brands will have to focus on engagement more than reach.
The firm parted company with Mr Ratner, threw the focus on to its "trusted brands" H Samuel and Ernest Jones, and renamed itself Signet.
Not all brands that follow these principles become cult brands, but established cult brands that maintain their focus on these principles can weather challenges and maintain their following.
The 500 biggest corporate brands engaged in a constant focus group of recognition.
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Instead of monthly meetings as before, the committee will meet on Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning this week, to focus on business results, products, brands and customers.
We look to create brands, start slow, focus on the package and product, show profits, and then when we prove successful, we can bring it forward for larger distributor.
The company also released comparative store sales results for its remaining brands that it plans to reorient focus toward after the sale is complete.
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