Strong brands deserve trust, and that trust will be rewarded with both loyalty and enthusiasm.
Many of these companies have the strong brands and scale that typically attract buyers.
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Coke and Pepsi have the obvious advantages of extremely strong brands and iconic products.
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Wahaha, nor any local or regional players, have not managed to build such strong brands.
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But most are large cap companies who have been around for generations, with strong brands and strong growth stories.
Merloni has succeeded by being a regional champion and using a few strong brands to keep its product range manageable.
All companies (smart companies, anyway) understand that there are three critical factors involved in building strong brands in this digital age.
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For their part, landlords and hosts can associate themselves with strong brands.
First, it must remember that strong brands, like strong businesses, require focus.
While telcos have billions of customers and strong brands, those strengths are offset by the growth of smart phones, tablets and digital services.
Both Google and Apple are strong brands, with plenty of advocates.
Unlike the original e-commerce model, new e-commerce startups are personalized and use new social tools to connect with consumers, but still have strong brands, she says.
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Strong brands have made it challenging for others, like Bank of America, to make a name in private banking without the boost that special programs can offer.
Simnegar of Fidelity also likes consumer companies with strong brands.
For many large companies, building strong brands means spending money.
Ultimately, it is enabling strong brands such as DAF and Marshalls to win based not only on product, but also the expertise that they can bring to the table.
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In a nutshell, Buffett looks for companies that have strong brands (which promotes premium pricing) that run understandable businesses with a good return on capital without a lot of debt.
But banks do have strong brands and plenty of capital: they may end up buying some of the online brokers, though not at their current high share-prices and low profitability.
These candidates have strong brands but strong negatives, too.
He sees a scalable, long-term growth story based on the rising consumption of fast food, strong brands that cater to local tastes, a dominant market position at home, strong cash flow and strong management.
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While it has a stable of strong brands, such as the Madden football franchise, it has had a difficult time turning its big-budget games into fresh blockbusters, and a bid for rival Take Two Interactive was rebuffed last year.
Now he has one major task to tackle, and it's harder than trimming any cost: to engineer and build great, profitable, desirable vehicles in every segment, for weakened brands such as Buick and Pontiac, and for strong brands such as Chevy, Cadillac and GMC.
Several firms that had been Asian ODMs Acer and ASUS, in particular spun off their manufacturing arms Wistron and Pegatron, respectively and morphed their companies into strong brands, buying their manufacturing in the contract marketplace rather than doing it themselves.
Strong personal brands are intimately bound up with your ideas and how you express them online.
Kellogg Company, a firm best known for its strong cereal brands, delivered a quarter that was a treat for its investors.
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