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Brand Leadership: What does it mean? What should it mean?

Jeff For Banks

If bankers tell me their institution has a superior brand, I want to know what that means. Too often I am told that the FI has a superior brand because customers come up to senior executives and board members on the street and tell them so. Is this our perception of brand leadership? Brand, brand, and brand.

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Gap Inc. Names Mark Breitbard New Global Head Of Banana Republic

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The company announced in a press release that Breitbard will also serve on the company’s leadership team. Mark brings significant retail leadership experience to Gap Inc., Breitbard has held leadership positions across Gap North America. Art Peck, president and CEO of Gap Inc., and Abercrombie & Fitch. “I

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Pier 1 CEO Steps Down

PYMNTS

We greatly appreciate Alex’s many years of leadership and considerable contributions to Pier 1 Imports. Most notably, he led a remarkable turnaround of the business from 2009 to 2013, creating one of the most profitable specialty stores in our sector,” Terry London, chairman of Pier 1 Imports, said in a statement.

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Best Buy’s Board Loses Former CEO

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Anderson has a long and winding history with Best Buy , assuming the roles of president and chief operating officer from 1991 to 2002, when he moved a few rungs up the ladder to CEO, where he remained until 2009. Paul Business Journal explained. “It

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Strava’s Journey From Fitness App To Fitness Ecosystem

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Founded as an online portal for bicycling enthusiasts in 2009, Strava it bills itself as “the social network for athletes,” has taken in $70 million in funding and has “tens of millions of active users,” according to CEO James Quarles. Quarles is new to his job, having come on board last spring, but he is not new to social media.

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How Gift Certificates Evolved From Paper To Wearables

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Starbucks gave prototype gift cards to its employee partners when they attended a leadership conference in 2001. But the gift cards would make a quantum leap in 2009. Ever so the early mobile adopter, Starbucks continues to roll out new mobile ordering functionalities on its branded app as well as on third-party applications.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

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. Date: May 21, 2009. After only two years, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9B. Cisco and Pure Digital.

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