Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, said there would be several more games available at the launch, including products from well-known studio brands.
In 2005, Haier made a bid to purchase Maytag, to be able to sell its own products under a well-known American brand name.
Aside from shoppers, who get better prices and more convenience, the biggest beneficiaries of this shift are products that have well-known, trusted brands, since these are the easiest to peddle online.
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Based in Australia, Billabong is a well-known manufacturer and retailer of action sports products.
Less well known is its thriving brewing industry, which showcased products from the award-winning Saltaire Brewery on February 26 to 28 at the Bradford Beer Festival.
Players use Under Armour and Nike products and some of their most well known promoters of the brand are NFL players, such as Ray Lewis and Peyton Manning.
These companies may not be well known, may not be global, may not be well capitalized, may only have a few products, and may not have large distribution networks for their products.
To do that, Capellas says Compaq will slap its well-known brand name on a wide range of products: from portable organizers to the Himalaya servers that power AOL's e-mail system to products still in development that will blur the lines between computers and electronic appliances like cell phones and stereos.
PepsiCo is best known for its namesake cola brand as well as its Frito Lay products (including Doritos and Cheetos).
The company is also known for avoiding rotten products and for retroactively applying any decline in product prices to existing customers as well as to new ones.
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However, both economically as well as for the large scientific and public community, the processes and products of deep-water circulation remain poorly known.
Owens Corning is well known in North America for its ubiquitous pink fiberglass insulation, but also makes a wide range of insulation and roofing products.
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