CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. Date: March 20, 2003.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands, recently stated that Crystal Pepsi was developed to reinforce consumer interest in purity and health.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It had a great brand. Companies have both tangible assets (factories, capital, inventory) and intangible assets, which include things like reputation and brand. In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.)

Omaha 78

Omaha Company Capital Management 78

CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

High tax rates on corporate gains meant that the best way to spend profits was to make acquisitions. Bain (whose partners actually coined the phrase “$1M framework”) would create its own “insight product” in 2003 with the Net Promoter Score. At the time, the predominant pressure in American business culture was to diversify.

Strategy 78

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