The beer giant, which is as it sounds, a venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors, will be required to pull its beers from every restaurant, bar and liquor store in the state because they did not renew their brand label registration before the shutdown.
"You are to stay away from the Martha Stewart brand and label at all costs, " he warned.
These guidelines will work when naming a company, brand, label, or product.
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At first they also pushed their own private-label brand PCs before realizing they couldn't match the resources of a Compaq or a Dell.
Using his distinctive Virgin logo -- first used to brand his record label of the same name in 1972 -- Branson has created companies across a range of industries since the mid-1980s.
So he opened Cordillera in Cusco, Peru, a 550 square foot store to sell camping equipment apparel and footwear to tourists including North Face, Columbia, and Alpinex, a Cordillera private-label brand made in China.
The menswear maker, which produces garments for Tommy Hilfiger and Polo, expanded its profit by 56% in 2012 by improving its own high-end Black Label brand, which appeals to the growing ranks of middle-class men in second-tier cities.
Penney also is launching in-store boutiques for its new private-label lingerie brand, Ambrielle.
Like the broader credit-card industry, delinquencies on store-brand or private-label cards are slowing.
Dillard's Inc. ( DDS - news - people ) caters to middle- and upper-middle-income women, selling name-brand and private-label merchandise with a focus on apparel and home furnishings.
But in a post-election Zogby Poll, only 22% of Hispanic voters on this past November called themselves conservative, suggesting that both the Republican brand and the conservative label had been badly tarnished.
Southcorp's Lindemans is a top imported brand, and another Australian label, Rosemount Estate, is not far behind.
With its commitment to social media, MLB is transforming its equity from a sport label to an entertainment brand.
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Retailers often mimic the trademark and packaging of a top-selling brand to stimulate sales of private label offerings.
There has long been a place for private-label or house-brand makers of everything from washing machines to mayonnaise sometimes the brand companies themselves peddled excess output that way.
Northern - which owns the Fox's brand and also makes own-label biscuits - said sales of biscuits in the October to December quarter were down 6% on the same period in 2001.
"They're starting to lay out stores differently, with better merchandise like private label food and more brand-name apparel, " says Dreher, who also stressed that a more decentralized approach to inventory management figures will help Wal-Mart do a better job stocking stores based on local tastes in each market.
He would stick a label on them that would brand them not only out of touch, but so fanatically wedded to the demands of the rich that they are unconcerned about the damage they could do to their country and its people.
Still, you would think that Hong Kong would go to say a Hong Kong-born label like Shanghai Tang, a brand that patterns itself after Ralph Lauren, for its uniforms.
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In many cases, brand names had higher levels of salt than the supermarket own-label equivalent.
Jun Takahashi, the reclusive designer behind the cult label Undercover, has committed to doing a subsequent designer brand collaboration.
She said she relished the chance for her "ethical fashion" label, which she describes as a Nigerian-Italian brand, to share a platform with accomplished designers such as South Africa's Kluk CGDT -- jointly named alongside Nigeria's Maki Oh as "designer of the year" at the event.
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The Company produces, markets, distributes and sells an extensive portfolio of alcoholic beverages including its flagship beer brand, Tusker Beer and spirits such as Baileys, Smirnoff and Black Label.
The rapper and music mogul plays a record label boss in Get Him To the Greek, which features comedian Russell Brand as wayward rock star Aldous Snow and is out in the UK on 25 June.
The even larger fashion label contracted with the Richemont Group to produce extremely high-end Ralph Lauren brand timepieces.
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Crew, said it was "a huge point of pride for all of us" to be a part of the day as the brand was back in 2009 when the girls wore outfits by CrewCuts, its children's label.
Indeed, K-J relies on widespread brand recognition. (Jackson filed a losing lawsuit against Gallo for mimicking K-J's label with its cheaper Turning Leaf line.) But Jackson believes that wine is sold differently from other consumer products: K-J eschews most advertising--it focuses instead on the point of sale in restaurants and retailers.
The quality of private-label goods has improved, making it harder for consumers to discern any difference between a store's brand and a more expensive rival, particularly for commodities such as paper towels or milk.
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