The company is perhaps best known for Terra Chips and Earth Best organic baby food among its three dozen brands.

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While Yahoo maintained its position as one of the top three web brands, an earlier study cast doubt over its ability to retain the position over coming years.

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Three brands, three very successful brands because each knows its purpose and consistently delivers on this purpose in fresh and relevant ways to every new (and old) generation of viewers.

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First, it will slash the number of its brands from eight to three--maybe not all at once but eventually.

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General Motors has shown no ability to manage all of its eight brands well, so how could it possibly handle three more--Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep?

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With its long history of working with high tech vendors, ASUS is able to show its strength and commitment to innovation with a close relationship to three of the leading brands currently producing products with Thunderbolt technology, Elgato, LaCie, and PROMISE.

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So far this year, Ford is achieving its modest goal of slowing its rate of decline for its North American brands in the domestic market--the brands have lost lost three-tenths of a point of market share this year, falling to 15.3%, compared with a loss of 1.1 points last year.

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The company opened its three-story flagship store on People's Square in downtown Shanghai in 2006 to sell Goodbaby and other brands to middle-class Chinese.

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How ironic that in the mad scramble to acquire noncarbonated beverages, which are growing in volume three times faster than fizzy drinks, one of the best-known brands can't find its way to the auction block.

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