“The problem? Microsoft isn’t competing against just the iPod as much as it is against an entire ecosystem of applications and developers that go along with Apple’s device. The number of applications available for the Zune pales by comparison with those available for the iPod through Apple’s App Store: The Zune HD currently has nine [...]
Oldsmobile is among the brand legends in US car history. Conceived in 1897, it was one of the five core brands manufactured by General Motors (GM) – the other four being Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick and Cadillac – and helped lead the company to a 57 per cent share of the US car market by the [...]
Among the most dreaded situation for any food brand, an outbreak of food poisoning ranks pretty high. For Snow Brand, Japan’s premier dairy foods company, 2000 was the year when that nightmare came true, in the most disastrous way. Read to know what went wrong…
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Little remains to be said about the rise and scandalous fall of Texan energy giant Enron. In the relatively short space of 15 years, Enron rose from nowhere to become the seventh largest company in the United States, and the most well-known energy supplier in the world. It boasted over 21,000 employees and had a [...]
The case study is about Hindustan Motors, an automobile manufacturer from India. It is part of the Birla group of industries. The company was the largest car manufacturer in India before the rise of Maruti Udyog (MUL).It is the producer of the famous Ambassador car, widely used as a taxicab and as a government limousine. [...]
Technology company Altec Lansing learned the importance of marketing with its failed VoicePod digital recorder. As the leading maker of computer speakers, Altec was sure it had a hit on its hands with its innovative recorder that attached audio messages to e-mail. Read more…
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Many brands fail when they move into inappropriate categories. For instance, Harley Davidson Perfume proved to be an extension too far. Virgin, however, is one company that seems to be able to apply its brand name to anything. Although Richard Branson’s empire began as a record label, signing groundbreaking acts such as the Sex Pistols, [...]
The company took part in an event called the Cow Parade in which cows were decorated according to different themes. Yahoo!’s ‘udderly moovelous’ (as it put it in a press release) pair of purple plastic cows were installed with an Internet facility that enabled members of the New York crowd to send ‘moomail’ messages to [...]
Cigarette manufacturers have often thought that the best way to build market share is to come up with new twists on the standard cigarette formula. For instance, Marlboro has had dozens of different varieties in its history, including Marlboro Menthol, Marlboro Lights and Marlboro Medium. Normally, cigarettes produce new varieties based on different levels of [...]
After the opening up of the Indian Markets, the past four or five years have seen an influx of foreign brands into India in every conceivable sphere of business activity, more so in the consumer goods & durable sector. The cry of Indian Indus” those days was that the days of Indian goods are numbered [...]