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Egypt isn’t known for creating global brands. The country wins “Best Country Brand for History” almost every year, but their commercial brands are not winning awards or dominating global markets. Here are the top Egyptian brands: 1. Orascom Holdings (including Orascom Construction and Orascom Development) 2. El Ezz Steel 3. Middle East Oil Refineries 3. …
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Settling naming rights before breaking ground, Sports Business Daily reports that Los Angeles has got a corporate name for a stadium that hasn’t been built (it doesn’t even have permits or an architect) and has no NFL team. AEG, owner of Farmers Insurance, just paid $600 million for a 30 year lease for naming rights …
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Brand creation, creating global Chinese brands, has been the official policy of the Communist Party Central Committee of China since 2004. The Ministry of Commerce launched China’s Brands Promotion Committee in a ceremony in Beijing on June 11 of that year. The goal of the committee was to help companies build internationally valued brands. Global …
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Mintel, a global market intelligence company, recently released a study touting growing consumer acceptance of generic brands, private label, and retailer brands. Yet what people say does not always affect what people do. The Mintel headline claims “Private label gets a quality reputation, causing consumers to change their buying habits.” The truth is that behavior …
More and more Web sites are offering the “Connect with Facebook” option–but could the initiative suffer brand trust issues? It appears Facebook Connect is succeeding where others have failed (most notably Microsoft’s Passport product). They are becoming the default internet ID card, saving users from having to create user names and passwords for every site …
A new dead brand as another venerable name slips into the past. The once great General Foods brand has been dropped from the last product Maxwell House Coffee (will that brand survive the decade?) Once one of the biggest brands in the grocery store, General Foods died slowly through acquisition. The generic nature of the …
Bloomberg News is reporting that the KFC brand is defeating all other fast food brands for dominance in China. By getting in early, tailoring its menu to local tastes (hamburgers are foreign, while fried chicken is well accepted), and hiring local decision makers, KFC stores in China contribute 36% of parent company Yum’s global operating …
How much of the Apple brand value is Steve Jobs? Is the brand at risk with Jobs’ new medical leave? When a major brand is closely tied to a single person (think of Yves St. Laurent, Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump), brand value can rise and fall on the fortunes and failures of that person. Steve …
It hasn’t been smooth sledding lately for the venerable Flexible Flyer brand. The iconic downhill coaster was invented by businessman Samuel Leeds Allen outside of Philadelphia just over the river in New Jersey. Seems the stern, hard-working Quaker was serious about winter sport. His daughter reports he tested every hill on his property, and finding …
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Corporate restructuring can make perfect financial sense, yet create a perfect mess creating brand confusion in the marketplace. Take Marathon Oil, which just announced it is spinning off its “downstream” refining and retail operations. Those low margin businesses drag down the finances of the whole company, so a spin off is a shrewd move. Still, …