Many of these car and watch brands develop long-standing partnerships that include joint product introductions and long-term marketing agreements.
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The joint product development project is more extensive than GM has done with other manufacturing partners, such as Toyota.
The two companies are pooling their businesses, moving towards joint product development.
Not surprisingly, the countries are wealthy and among the world's greenest as well, according to the Environmental Performance Index, a joint product of Columbia University and Yale University, which measures performance against 25 indicators, such as measures of air pollution, water supply or use of natural resources.
Hardly a week went by without a new joint venture or product launch that needed professional hype.
He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems.
He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems to layer on and cross-sell new services.
The Subaru BRZ is the product of a joint venture with Toyota.
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It is the product of a joint venture between one of India's elite Institutes of Technology -- IIT Rajasthan -- and DataWind, the manufacturer that won the bid.
Further south, a studio on Queensland's Gold Coast, built in 1988 by Dino de Laurentiis, a Hollywood producer, churns out international television product for its joint proprietors: Village Roadshow, an Australian distributor, and Warner Brothers.
So that focuses the mind of members of Congress on the need for the joint committee to produce a product that can pass in fast-track manner, pass both houses of Congress and be signed into law.
In Britain, Barclays Global Investors, part of the banking group, has become the world's fourth-biggest asset manager after acquiring Wells Nikko, an index-fund provider that was itself the product of a joint venture between an American and a Japanese firm.
Sany executives say they are scouting for acquisitions and joint ventures to gain a broader product line, more sales and rental outlets.
Since stepping in, "we have been trading at record levels as we have been able to offer very competitive prices across the full product range", said joint administrator Simon Allport.
The third generation smart fortwo electric drive features a 55 kW magneto-electric motor - the first product from the EM-motive joint venture founded together with Bosch - which ensures that it is as agile and lively as ever.
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The joint-venture company only did its first real product launch this year.
All customer information will be entered into a joint Samsung-FCB proprietary database for use in future promotions and product designs.
Right on cue, Sprint and Motorola just announced their joint effort to the fight of AIDS in Africa, the (PRODUCT) RED MOTORAZR V3m.
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"Waterford, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton are quintessentially classic brands that represent a high quality product which is steeped in history, " says Angus Martin, joint administrator, Deloitte.
Though so far it has stayed away from the PDA-combo product class--it's leaving that to its mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson (nasda: ERICY - news - people )--Sony is playing the percentages by producing PDAs that will appeal across a pretty wide spectrum.
After the deal closes, Glueck will assume the role of EVP of the Operator Business for Opera, as well as CEO of Skyfire, and will oversee the joint offerings for Opera across Opera Mini co-brand solutions for Operators and Skyfire's product lines.
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The company believed the product was performing well until August 2010 when it "received new information from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales reporting that 12% of ASR resurfacing patients and 13% of ASR Total Hip Replacement patients were undergoing second hip replacement surgery sooner than expected".
Joint leadership may also work well in the tech world because there is an obvious division of labour between technologically minded product managers and sales and marketing types.
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