All three companies also have a long tail of steady-earning but generally less profitable local brands.
In October, sales of the local brands grew by 16 percent year on year.
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Power, a market researcher, show that the local brands are now closing the reliability gap.
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Under apartheid, sanctions kept international firms out of South Africa and gave local brands easy dominance.
Other local brands to watch are Kweichow Moutai and privately held fashion and bridal gown maker Ne-Tiger.
Consider the case of Asli Dagadu Djokdja, one of Jogjakarta's best-known local brands.
Its portfolio has a wide range of premium, mid-price and low-price brands, which include both international and local brands.
Although the foreign-invested enterprises dominate the market at the moment, the local brands, as a group, are rapidly gaining ground.
The move was implemented in spite of the fact that premium cigarettes are taxed at 45% compared to 20% for local brands.
Kimberly-Clark's local brands sell apricot-colored paper in the U.K., green in Poland, "sunny orange" in Switzerland and "natural pebble" in Germany, the company says.
The man in the street tends to be deeply attached to his favourite pint, making beer an industry in which small local brands can continue to prosper.
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No matter if they are cult brands, tribal brands, love brands, global brands, or local brands, insofar as they are communities of people drawn together by a central ideal, they are brands.
In the latter years of Svanholm's regime, the world's big brewers were buying up local brands outside their home markets and then pumping their own premium, high-margin products through the local distribution networks.
By country, Chinese local brands now account for 32 percent of the total, their highest ever, with Geely, BYD, Great Wall and Chery all finishing on the top 10 assembler list for the month.
Also at the auto show, global automakers including Mercedes Benz and Nissan and local brands such as Geely Holding Group, which owns Sweden's Volvo Cars, and Great Wall Motors Co. showed new SUVs or SUV concept vehicles.
In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
"Most U.S. investors have no comprehension of worldwide demand for tobacco, " says Ahrens, who smokes only the occasional cigar, and thinks that U.S. tobacco brands will be able to gain market share overseas at the expense of lower-quality local brands.
There are thousands of local Chinese brands, but few have ventured onto the world stage.
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Aliyun is currently available from two local Chinese brands, Haier and Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment.
This continued growth is likely to come to some extent through the takeover of local booze brands in India, China and Brazil.
Cheng explains that the company is now seeking out good local designers and brands.
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Tolia discussed how AMG is making hyper-targeted local access for brands scalable and accountable for the first time.
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First, the local assemblers get better each year, and the technology and quality gap between the local and foreign brands continues to close.
Gill quickly got back in the game of translating global brands into local retail strength.
Marquette Group is a directional marketing agency that connects qualified, local customers to national brands by designing integrated media strategies.
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The Carrier and Condura brands from local firm Concepcion Industries still dominate with more than 35% of the room airconditioner market.
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