Gregg (HGG): This Indianapolis-based specialty retailer sells video products, brand name appliances, audio products and accessories, operating 228 stores in 20 states.
Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.
People often buy brand-name products over their generic alternatives for fairly obvious reasons.
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Decisions will be discouraged: let the fridge keep itself stocked full of brand-name products with optimized expiration dates and serving sizes.
That deal initially offered little visibility or major products featuring his name.
But they hurt revenue because they cost less than brand-name products.
Perks told CNN an increasing numbers of wealthy consumers in regions such as Asia are driving demand for Europe's most renowned luxury brand name products.
Other studies have shown that wearing counterfeit versions of brand-name products makes people feel less authentic, and actually increases their likelihood of both behaving dishonesty and distrusting others.
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Freeshipping.com: Browse through more than a million brand-name products here.
Then there are David Harrold and Bruce Prevost, who set up Palm Beach Finance Partners in 2002 and marketed it as a hedge fund to provide financing of brand-name products to retailers.
Then there are David Harrold and Bruce Prevost, who set up Palm Beach Finance Partners in 2002 and marketed it as a hedge fund to provide financing of brand-name products to investment-grade retailers.
Coupons steer you toward more expensive brand-name products.
Your most active customers determine the value of the brand not only for themselves, but they also have a strong voice in determining the value that others see in your company, your products and your name.
That means to make its products cool, Microsoft has to often underplay its name, in products like XBox and Halo.
Its cosmetics product segment provides various products under the brand name of OHUI, Whoo, ISA KNOX and LacVert.
Acer acquired the California-based computer company in 2007 and continues to sell products under the Gateway name, particularly at big box stores like Best Buy.
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The Menznau Kronospan factory, which makes wood products under the brand name Kronoswiss, is one of 10 plants in seven countries run by the Swiss Krono Group, according to the company's website.
Then, there was a rush to name shops and products such as bank accounts and trains after the euro.
The intense marketing of expensive index-like products has smeared the good name of traditional low-cost index funds that John Bogle and Vanguard created in 1975.
Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
These products are usually categorized under the name marketing automation, but marketing battlefield management would be a better name.
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The company's links with its home city were reflected in the Terry's of York name stamped on all products until four years ago.
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One explanation is that Apple products have become a brand-name accessory, the technological equivalent of another Japanese favorite: a Louis Vuitton bag.
Even more confusing to the consumer is that the phenylephrine is often sold under the same brand name as controlled pseudoephedrine products.
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Flowserve is not exactly a household name, but its products are widely used in industries around the world, including power generation and chemical processing.
If it is true that Apple products are bought for the brand name (something I think entirely uncontroversial) then by definition they are restricting themselves to that top portion of the marketplace.
Eastman Kodak Company and JK Imaging, Ltd. today announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement for JK Imaging to license the Kodak brand name for certain consumer products, including digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and portable projectors.
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Reportedly, Applecorps has filed a lawsuit in London against the computer firm over a 22-year-old agreement that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) use the Apple name only for computer products--not music-related enterprises.
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