Sentences with phrase «of lesser brands»

The Android warden has also released a list of certified partners, which, besides the usual suspects, contains a number of lesser brands out of China.

Many of the lesser brands are inadequate or have a poor level of acceptance.

In fact, the engine was co-developed with Audi for use in most of the lesser brand's products.

Not exact matches

While it may not be one of the familiar names in hair styling the HSI Professional hair straightener goes to show that an unfamiliar brand name doesn't always mean less quality.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

The discount retailer includes the Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS brands, which are located throughout most of the United States with the exception of New England.

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

However... «if Amazon were successful in changing the brand pricing model to be based on «net» price versus the current gross model, we estimate a portion of rebates and other supply chain discounts currently being retained by plan sponsors, PBMs, and to a lesser degree drug distributors could pass back to consumers.»

Remaining true to the brand meant avoiding some of the most notoriously unlikable elements of traditional outsourcing: massive and depressing call centers, slavish working conditions, and resulting work that is less than stellar.

Macy's has too many stores in dying malls and is less and less crucial to brands, many of which are ramping up their direct - to - consumer efforts.

Regular medications including original name brands and generics can be found at modern pharmacy chains like U-Care for less than 10 % of the prices charged in the States.

The challenge with this generation of teens becoming the new gatekeepers, however, is that they're less loyal to brands and businesses than the generations that came before them.

On the Fortune 500 side, it's powerhouse brands like Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) vs. a slew of large but lesser - known companies like CH2M Hill and Newmont Mining (NEM).

One of the first YouTube - exclusive campaigns by a major brand, the clip earned a spot in the Guinness World Records as the most viewed online ad ever, with more than 25 million views in less than two months.

It's a great parable about the inevitability of branding, but it contains a more literal truth every marketer eventually faces: The better creative people get, the less able they are to serve any brand but their own.

Carnival was the original brand to pioneer the concept of shorter, less expensive cruises.

Internet search experts say the shutdown of Google News in Spain may be greater on smaller, less - well known news publishers than on name - brand news sites who are less reliant on the site to draw in readers.

«They found socially relevant former athletes and movie stars — people that were able to masculinize a beer brand that it was a low - calorie beer that had «great taste, less filling,»» said Don Faust Jr., chairman and CEO of beer distributing company Faust Distributing.

The backstory: Illinois - based Marathon Pharmaceuticals won U.S. FDA approval of deflazacort, a common steroid that you can order for less than $ 1 per pill from abroad through online pharmacies, under the brand name Emflaza for a topline price of $ 89,000 for a year's treatment.

In fact, when someone crumbles that last empty pack of their favorite brand and vows to never buy another, he might not realize that he is less like the heroic individual grasping his own bootstraps and more like a single bird whose sudden left turn is just one speck in the larger flock.

For well over a century, a range of men's footwear brands — Grenson, Church's, John Lobb, Tricker's and Crockett & Jones, among others — have called the East Midlands region home, producing more or less the same shoes, more or less the same way.

But it proved wholly insufficient to protect its brand from this disaster, much less ensure the safety of Bangladeshis making Joe Fresh garments.

Although it only opened its first retail space less than two years ago, Glossier, Emily Weiss's millennial - friendly blog - turned - beauty brand has become the talk of the cosmetic industry.

«The impact Firefox users will get is the ads will be less targeted to them,» says Eric Bosco, chief operating officer of American ad technology developer ChoiceStream, which uses third - party cookies to track the way consumers across North America interact with the ads of about 30 major brands, including online shoe retailer Zappos.

Brand management is so important that Reputations Corporation, a Vancouver - based consultancy group, reports that 72 percent of consumers say reputation influences their buying decisions; 80 percent of employees will accept less pay to work with a company with an excellent reputation; while another 89 percent say reputation is a tiebreaker between equal products.

The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.

The brand is also debuting a line of Greek yogurt that uses less fruit to cater to the growing number of consumers trying to cut back on sugar.

Franchisees might intentionally or inadvertently promote their established franchise brand as being a less risky investment than a mom - and - pop shop, putting them at risk for charges of fraud.

But essentially, Mattel is looking to replace the revenue derived from a home - run hit — Disney Princess — and replace it with a mix of smaller, lesser known and not as popular brands.

The Chinese are also traeling more and they prefer buying luxury brands overseas because there is less likelihood of fakes (presumably they're buying more on Fifth Avenue and the Champs Elysees than along Manhattan's knock - off row, on Canal Street.)

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

Coverage or not, Valeant said that less than 1 % of patients still take Valeant's branded migraine drug, with Perrigo (prgo), which makes a generic, outselling the branded version 250 to 1.

During its 2010 peak, 4.7 million people watched her E! reality show, «Keeping Up With the Kardashians,» and though the show draws less than half that number today, it made her an established brand in her own right, not to mention a net worth of $ 53 million.

Though the company had to alter parts of its branding, like changing its colour scheme from red to pink (the latter being less provocative), nixing forbidden photos of skin - baring women and axing Cupid imagery due to its religious connotations, it was still adapting to a culture that celebrates sexuality, albeit in a different way.

The Trader Joe's private - label brand is less expensive than everything else in the store, and many of the products are actually name - brand products repackaged for its private label.

The higher costs have led to rationing of dwindling supplies of the less expensive generic drugs to avoid purchasing the more expensive name brand treatments.

«But unlike the Apple Watch or some of the new luxury brand Android Wear watches, the Ionic seems like less of a fit in a business meeting or at a fancy dinner party.»

But unlike the Apple (aapl) watch or some of the new luxury brand Android Wear watches, the Ionic seems like less of a fit in a business meeting or at a fancy dinner party.

It's hard to know whether it's the result of simply having less money or a shift in culture, but Millennials don't care about brands and status anywhere near as much as earlier generations.

That's because most of the data they get from brands is more or less meaningless.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

«I don't expect people to know the sum of all the parts, but I expect them to pick it up and be able to feel a difference in quality,» Winthrop says, noting that American Giant's heavyweight hoodies retail for a sensible $ 69 (the zippered version for $ 79), comparable to lesser - quality shirts from brand - name retailers.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

«There is less of an incentive to build strong brands as they're currently left vulnerable to infringement,» explains Killian Wells, CEO of Xyrena, whose Reefer Madness Collection (including Blue Dream & OG Kush fragrances) contain terpenes naturally found in cannabis but no controlled extracts.

Nasar's cast of characters is a mix of those who've become brand names, such as Hayek and Friedman; those whose names are found less commonly in economic textbooks (Charles Dickens); and those like Beatrice Webb (née Potter) previously underappreciated by the lay reader.

While millennials are much less likely to be loyal to a brand, 69 percent belong to a retail loyalty program, and 70 percent of those are happy with their programs.

That's less than one - third of the volume that Americans purchased in 1988, the brand's peak.

Americans are drinking less than a third of the Budweiser they consumed at the brand's peak in the US.

By eliminating those lesser wares, the brand would represent the kind of excellence Parker wanted.

And don't worry, the lower cost doesn't mean the drug is less effective — brand and generic drugs have the same standards of quality and clinical effectiveness.