So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
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We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.
I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.
Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?
Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.
I think there are very few brands with a person's point of view behind them.
Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.
Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.