Word: flagships
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...TerraCycle is willing to take it, he might as well add. Negative costs drive the company's bottom line. Only the label on the bottle of TerraCycle's flagship product is new. The product is a ready-to-use organic plant-food spray, made from the excrement of worms fed on compost and packaged in repurposed soda bottles...
...little known outside China, Lenovo catapulted to No. 3 in the world PC market (after Dell and Hewlett-Packard) with its $1.75 billion IBM purchase. The acquisition, the most high-profile overseas grab by a Chinese firm, horrified many Americans, who saw a rising China set to gobble up flagship industries in the U.S. After all, IBM virtually invented the PC 25 years...
...that the product in question was never very popular in the first place. That's the case for Segway, the maker of the futuristic two-wheeled "personal transporter" that was supposed to revolutionize how we all get around. Except the Segway being recalled happens to be the company's flagship product, and the limited scope of the recall shows once and for all- as suspected by pretty much anyone with a pair of eyes and a passing interest in the device-how relatively few of the brilliantly designed if impractical machines have actually been sold...
Nokia has recently tapped into that trend to build on its brand. At its flagship store in Moscow, customers can use display phones to send images and messages and, eventually, to connect with people globally through its mobile gaming network. As more flagships open around the world, shoppers will be able to join a live gaming community by directly competing against scores posted by players at other stores. "Learn to get close to your consumer; it's going to keep you alive," says Cliff Crosbie, director of global retail and trade marketing for Nokia...
BEYOND FURNITURE Charme relaunched the historic Scottish cashmere label Ballantyne in 2003. The company repositioned the brand, creating a fresher ad campaign and opening three flagship stores...