Stay with a strong brand and you should be okay, as long as you have an option to terminate the franchise every five years.
In the past 40 years it has been one of the world's most profitable retailers, with a strong brand that has dominated the British high street.
It counts with a strong brand, made recognizable by its popular baby ads, and a good trading platform for retail investors, as Griffin admitted in his angry letter to the board.
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Other than perhaps Southwest Airlines, JetBlue is the only carrier in the sky with a with a truly strong brand identity.
Even the Cubs, a Cactus League team with a strong national brand, don't command those kinds of prices.
"Ideally, we like to find a company with a strong core business, a good brand name, a new or at least revitalized management team and a solid balance sheet, " writes Putnam.
What the Mets need is an owner with deep pockets who can focus on turning the team into a strong brand with integrity.
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"Coach is a great company with exceptional brand and business equities and a strong and seasoned leadership team, " said Luis in a statement.
Back then, investors were attracted to large cap stocks with a dominant market position, strong brand recognition and dividend history.
On the other hand, less demand for dedicated devices had helped Amazon, which already established a strong brand presence with Kindle as part of a much larger personal-cloud ecosystem.
Like a VC, we want to see a leadership team with vision and the ability to execute and a strong plan for the brand.
Lexus: Although Lexus has suffered a slew of recalls recently, we expect it to maintain its leading U.S. market share going forward, driven by fuel efficiency, attractive financial incentives and pricing, and a very strong brand associated with both luxury and value.
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But Bellator MMA is on the right path, with a new season launching on Spike TV, a plethora of strong sponsorships and a demographic that causes brand managers to salivate.
This is essential for developing a strong brand and a close relationship with those customers.
Our track record of innovation, combined with Sprint's strong brand and local leadership, provides a constructive beginning toward creating a more competitive American wireless market.
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We believe strong customer stickiness and a brand image synonymous with innovation has enabled Apple to grab mobile phone market share despite heightened competitive pressure.
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"Our track record of innovation, combined with Sprint's strong brand and local leadership, provides a constructive beginning toward creating a more competitive American mobile market, " said Softbank's chairman and chief executive Masayoshi Son.
Atkins Nutritionals also has a strong brand, which he says will be reinforced with new marketing and new books.
Mr Dutfield said there was a "strong and talented team" with the skills needed to take the "fantastic brand and company" into the future.
Her name and image became so synonymous with style and strong sales that she signed a number of licensing deals that saw the DVF brand stamped on everything from sheets and towels to curtains and rugs.
When you have a company with a really strong sense of team and values that consistently impresses the people it interacts with, the brand might ultimately reflect that out in the real world too.
When asked about the biggest challenges might face her, a founder of only 24 months, in operating a global company with more than 400 brand partners after the acquisition, Beauchamp points to her strong partnership with the JolieBox team.
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Star Wars in particular is a strong global brand, and one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time, with hundreds of millions of fans around the globe.
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But starting in 2007, as HTC began rolling out more phones under its own brand, it was able to tap the strong relationships it had built as a contract manufacturer with all four of the big U.S. wireless carriers--an asset Nokia conspicuously lacked.
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