Reputation Institute recently ranked 100 businesses that have successfully established strong international names for themselves.
Reputation Institute, a global private consulting firm based in New York, recently ranked 100 businesses that have successfully established strong international names for themselves.
Those companies already have strong brand names and just need to be hooked up to the big cloud of investors, preferably without delays and glitches.
Cookies and motor oil don't appear to have much in common, but both are low-growth industries with basically interchangeable products, where strong brand names are key.
The magazine says its initial list was a thousand names strong, before being whittled down to the final 154.
Some retail names remain strong: Wal-Mart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), TJX Companies (TJX) and Costco (COST).
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To prove his memory is still strong, Pickens rattles off the names of his grade school teachers: Christine Providence, Ethel Reed, Christine Mackey.
The 7000 and the 5000 (names are not Cisco's strong suit) do the tricky work of unifying servers, data storage and virtualization software (a way to get one server to do the work of several so you get more bang from each).
This discrepancy led to a situation where component names like QCOM and RFMD were still acting strong in the stock market during the autumn of 2008.
That would imply strong powers to impose fines, or to pass on individuals' names for prosecution.
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The Harris Interactive online poll of 2, 463 bank customers conducted between October 10 and 17 captured a strong undercurrent of dissent among these customers for the services they receive from the biggest names in the U.S. banking industry.
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HSN, which is home to culinary wares from household names like Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse and Todd English, already attracts a strong base of cooking fanatics.
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This elite group of tech moguls, hedge-funders, athletes and entertainers is hovering under billionaire status with a strong chance of breaking into the Forbes 400 ranks this decade, including some well-known names such as Jay-Z, Jerry Seinfeld, Tiger Woods and James Cameron.
According to stock forecasters at ValuEngine.com, these equities are priced to perfection, including major names like Brazilian beer giant Ambev (ABV), on the list as a strong buy for the first time in the last four weeks, and Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) is back on it again.
Along with the big oil names, Caterpillar, one of the strongest stocks in the Dow, will show strong sales growth on a favorable international environment, with analysts expecting first quarter revenues to grow 40% year-over-year.
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These names are less well-known than consumer companies such as Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, but have strong growth and benefit from trends such as the move of businesses to cloud computing.
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