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Brands and sold
The most commonly sold brands include Gund and Ty Inc. Brands associated with teddy bears that enjoyed strong popularity in the 1980s and 1990s are Teddy Ruxpin and Care Bears.
But by 2001, the brand had been sold to Pharmacia, and Luden's eventually became a product of Prestige Brands.
In 2005, Colgate sold the under-performing brands Fab, Dynamo, Arctic Power, ABC, Cold Power and Fresh Start, as well as the license of the Ajax brand for laundry detergents in the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico, to Phoenix Brands, LLC as part of their plan to focus on their higher margin oral, personal, and pet care products.
In 1972, the company went public for the only time in its history when United Brands sold 17 % in an IPO.
Dunkin ' Brands used to own the Togo's chain, but sold this in late 2007 to a private equity firm.
Later in 2002, Abbott sold Clear Eyes and Murine to Prestige Brands.
* Express-on May 15, 2007, Limited Brands sold a 75 % stake in Express to Golden Gate Capital Partners.
Pernod Ricard successfully completed acquisition on 26 July 2005 and sold off the overlapping spirits brands to U. S .- based competitor Fortune Brands and British giant Diageo.
In November 2004, AFC sold those franchise rights ( along with Cinnabon ) to a newly-established affiliate of Roark Capital Group, FOCUS Brands, Inc.
Maker's Mark was sold to Hiram Walker & Sons in 1981, which sold it to distillery giant UK-based Allied Domecq in 1987, which in turn sold it to Deerfield, Illinois-based Fortune Brands in 2005.
AFC was forced to sell off its Seattle's Best Coffee division to Starbucks and in 2004 sold its international division and Cinnabon to FOCUS Brands, Inc.
In 2004, AFC Enterprises, Inc., sold Cinnabon for $ 30. 3 million to FOCUS Brands, Inc., which is owned by the Atlanta-based private equity firm Roark Capital Group.
With financial pressures stemming from running the British Grand Prix, Octagon sold off the group of four circuits, including Brands Hatch, to the MotorSport Vision group headed by ex-F1 driver Jonathan Palmer in 2004.
* Calgon bath and beauty products, sold to Coty, Inc., and then acquired by Ascendia Brands on 9 February 2007.
Brands, Inc .. PepsiCo also previously owned several other brands that it later sold so it could focus on its primary snack food and beverage lines, according to investment analysts reporting on the divestments in 1997.
In March 2009, Mediatex sold the brand to International Brands General Trading, a Dubai-based company.
A Ding Dong is a chocolate cake that is sold by Hostess Brands.
In 1999, Liggett Vector Brands Inc. sold L & M, Lark and Chesterfield brands to Philip Morris Companies Inc., now known as the Altria Group.
On January 4, 2011, it was announced that Procter and Gamble had sold the brand to High Ridge Brands Co.
Brands sold include Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, The Row, Fendi, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin, Balenciaga, Prada, Alexander Wang, Jil Sander, Manolo Blahnik, Thom Browne, Dries van Noten, Diane von Furstenberg, Bettanin & Venturi and Burberry Prorsum, as well as Barneys private label merchandise.
In 2003 exclusive licensing rights to the Sunlight brand of dish-washing detergents in Canada, Puerto Rico and the USA were sold ( along with some other Unilever brands ) to Lehman Brothers bankers, who set up Phoenix Brands for the purpose.
In 1886 the House of Ridgway received a Royal Warrant for its development, and Her Majesty's Tea Blend ( now called Her Majesty's Blend ) is still sold today by Premier Brands, the conglomerate of which Ridgways became a part.

Brands and included
Brands included Gap ( as of 2000 operating six factories there ), Levi Strauss, Phillips-Van Heusen, Abercrombie & Fitch, L ' Oreal subsidiary Ralph Lauren ( Polo ), Lord & Taylor, Tommy Hilfiger, and Walmart.
In 2008 the MTS brand was included in the Top 100 World's Most Powerful Brands list by Financial Times / Millward Brown ranking, becoming the most valuable Russian brand.
An enhanced edition of the BBC version was later released called ' REVS 4 Tracks ' which included Brands Hatch, Donington Park, Oulton Park and Snetterton race tracks.
Later the Commodore 64 version added the Nürburgring to this list to continue the " 4 Tracks " theme as Brands Hatch had already been included with the initial REVS Plus release.
The season also included a single non-championship Formula One race, the Race of Champions, which was held at Brands Hatch and won by defending World Champion Keke Rosberg in a Williams Cosworth.
Racing a Group C Porsche from 1983 to 1990, successes included the 1984 Brands Hatch 1000km, and second place in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Circuit racing wins included the Guards 1000 miles race at Brands Hatch in 1965 and the 84-hour Marathon de la Route at the Nurburgring in 1966.
Following Belk's departure, Limited Brands closed all five of their stores inside the mall, which included Bath & Body Works, The Limited and Victoria's Secret.
Acquired brands included Glad, Handi-Wipes ( which First Brands acquired from Colgate-Palmolive just months before the Clorox acquisition ) and STP.
In 1987 American Brands acquired ACCO, a holding company which owned several office supply subsidiaries, which included the Swingline brand.

Brands and Williams
1983 also saw the last non-championship Formula One race: The 1983 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, won by reigning World Champion Keke Rosberg in a Williams Cosworth in a close fight with American Danny Sullivan.
Elio de Angelis qualified on pole with a time that was 2. 8 seconds slower than the pole time for the 1982 British Grand Prix at Brands set by Keke Rosberg in the Ground effect Williams FW08.
However Mansell fought back with Williams, and chalked up two victories near the season's end, including his famous breakthrough win at Brands Hatch.
Stefan Johansson was replaced at Spirit by Mauro Baldi for the season when the team lost its Honda engines to Williams and he didn't race until he joined Tyrrell in Round 10 of the championship, the British Grand Prix, at Brands Hatch as a replacement for the injured Martin Brundle.
Jonathan made his F1 debut at Brands Hatch on 25 September 1983, driving for the Williams team in the European Grand Prix.
She entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works Williams FW07 prepared by Brands Hatch Racing, but failed to qualify.

Brands and .
At this point Curtis attended the 1980 Pace sponsored Stirling Moss benefit day at Brands Hatch, and met fellow Farnham resident Victor Gauntlett.
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Some major companies include: Universal Spirit, AmeriCheer, Cheersport, Planet Spirit, Eastern Cheer and Dance Association, and the JAM Brands.
In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.
The JAM Brands: The JAM Brands, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, provides products and services for the cheerleading and dance industry.
JAMfest, the original brand of The JAM Brands, has been around since 1996 and was founded by Aaron Flaker and Emmitt Tyler.
Dan Kessler has since become a co-owner of The JAM Brands along with Flaker and Tyler.
In October 2009, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors ( AACCA ), a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, released a study that analyzed the data from Emergency Room visits of all high school athletes.
The editorial stance was that the Boston populace feared that inoculation spread, rather than prevented, the disease ; however, some historians, notably H. W. Brands, have argued that this position was a result of editor-in-chief James Franklin's ( Benjamin Franklin's brother ) contrarian positions.
River West Brands currently owns the ColecoVision brand name.
In 2012, Saban Brands licensed Digimon Xros Wars with an English dub in the works.
In September 2012, Saban Brands announced it had acquired the Digimon franchise and MarVista Entertainment will distribute the series outside of Asia.
A forty-two-day strike at the Tela Railroad Company ( owned by Chiquita Brands International — formerly United Brands and United Fruit Company ) was unsuccessful, however, and that defeat temporarily ended union efforts at direct confrontation.
The Honduran government and two banana companies — Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company — owned approximately 60 percent of Honduras's cultivable land in 1993.
Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company now account for most Honduran banana production and exports.
Dole Food Company and Chiquita Brands International together have invested heavily in Honduran industries as diverse as breweries and plastics, cement, soap, cans, and shoes.
* 1913 – Eugène Brands, Dutch painter ( d. 2002 )
* 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands ( d. 1983 )
While leading at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, he ran out of fuel at Clearways and Rindt passed him to take the win while Brabham coasted to the finish in second place.

1.006 seconds.