Kehring buys watch maker

[:en]French Kering – formerly PPR – acquires the Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin.

Kerin owns brands like Gucci, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Brioni and Puma. Some of those have signed brand licenses for watches. In the future the watch licensees will have to compete with an in-house solution.[:]

Dr. Scholl Schuhe an Aurelius verkauft

Aurelius meldet die Übernahme der Schuhsparte Scholl von der britischen Reckitt Benckiser Group. Über den Kaufpreis wurde Stillschweigen vereinbart.

Scholl vertreibt Schuhe in Europa sowie in einigen asiatischen Märkten. Zudem ist Scholl Footwear in Australien aktiv. Die Produkte von Scholl Footwear werden in Europa vor allem in Apotheken und Sanitätshäusern vertrieben. In Asien findet man sie im Schuhfachhandel. Scholl Footwear erwirtschaftet laut Mitteilung Umsätze von rund 90 Millionen Euro im Jahr.

Aurelius kaufte früher bereits Blaupunkt und beteiligte sich an Berentzen.

Daimler Mercedes Maybach Pullmann

[:en]Brand management is not easy. And somebody at Daimler seems to be quite challenged with it.

Going back a bit, it was difficult to understand the change from Daimler Benz to Daimler. The immediate impact was royalties to be paid to the English competitor Daimler. Equally questionable was the revival of Maybach. As we know, that failed.

And now Daimler wants to revive yet another label, Pullmann. What will the product be called?

Mercedes S 600 Maybach Pullman

What a mouth full. Where will that be on the car?

Did they forgot, that originally a Pullman was a train car? And that today, probably Pullmann is known as a chain of hotels?

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