The rumors began in 2007, and ran rife throughout the annual Baselworld Watch Fair in April. This month we have official confirmation: Tag Heuer is about to launch a mobile phone.
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Earlier this month, US brewer Anheuser-Busch finally acknowledged that it had received a bid of $47.5bn (£24.2bn) from InBev to buy the firm. It is a massive potential deal.
Building brands a hundred years ago was hard work. Back then, consumers were uncomfortable with the idea of identifying with products and companies.
The first year of study for a PhD in Marketing is a confusing affair. I vividly remember long days spent at Lancaster trying to decode the journals of marketing with the creeping sensation that I may have bitten off more than I could chew. The first theoretical model I fully understood was the Hierarchy of Effects.
When it was launched in the US in 2007, the iPhone was locked into the AT&T network. The only way to own one was by signing a contract with the carrier. The deal allowed AT&T exclusive rights to the handset and ensured that Apple could maintain premium prices and claim an unprecedented 15% of the operator’s revenues from each user. Apple repeated the arrangement with O2 in the UK and Orange in France.