`` I don't believe I know you, and I can't understand your quaint brand of English -- it was meant to be English, wasn't it ''??

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

In 1963, Rowney ( now part of Daler-Rowney Ltd since 1983 ) was the first manufacturer to introduce an artist ’ s acrylic color in Europe, under the brand name Cryla.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

In 2002, the Beechcraft brand was revived to again designate the Wichita-produced aircraft.

It was relaunched in November 2001 under the BBCi brand and operated under this name until 2008, when it was once more rebranded as BBC Red Button.

The BBCi brand launched in 2001 and was conceived as a cohesive multi-platform brand name for all the BBC's digital interactive services, encompassing the corporation's digital teletext, interactive television and website services.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

As of 2009 the city was ranked Europe's third and one of the world's most successful as a city brand.

The pen was sold in Argentina under the Birome brand ( portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne ), which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country.

The brand new Dennis and Gnasher was launched separately from The Beano in September 2009.

Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin distributed by Bacardi that was launched in 1987.

The Bundaberg Rum Distillery admitted it was aware its brand had a reputation of being associated with aggression, and said it may change its advertising to dispel its " yobbo " image.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

Palm oil formed the basis of soap products, such as Lever Brothers ' ( now Unilever ) " Sunlight " soap, and the American Palmolive brand.

The inception of Orange brand was in 1990 in United Kingdom with the formation of " Microtel Communications Ltd "-a consortium initially formed by Pactel Corporation ( American ), British Aerospace, Millicom and Matra ( French ); and later, to be wholly owned by BAe.

After Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, Burton and his business partner, Mark Wolfe acquired the global rights to the brand and formed RRKIDZ, a new media company for children.

The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand.

This company, formed in 1997 from three well-known brand names in the marine industry — Sperry Marine, Decca, and C. Plath — is now part of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

The modern-day Nationwide Series was formed in 1982, when Anheuser-Busch sponsored a newly reformed late-model sportsman series with its Budweiser brand.

In January 2005, the Avion Group was formed, and Air Atlanta Icelandic and Islandsflug merged under the Air Atlanta Icelandic brand name.

The parental disregard of the Burger King brand continued through Grand Metropolitan's merger with Guinness in 1997, when the two organizations formed the new holding company Diageo.

On July 20, 2006, the newly formed Indian Motorcycle Company, owned largely by Stellican Limited, a London-based private equity firm, announced its new home in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where it has restarted the Indian motorcycle brand, manufacturing Indian Chief motorcycles in limited numbers, with a focus on exclusivity rather than performance, like a ' luxury ' watch.

On March 26 2009 the faculty of Economics, communication and IT formed Karlstad Business School ( Swedish Handelshögskolan vid Karlstads universitet ) as a brand of their educational programmes in the business related areas.

In August 2001 the ITV1 brand was formed, which replaced the ' ITV ' on the Carlton idents.

* National Reso-Phonic Guitars, a company formed in the 1980s to manufacture resonator guitars and the current owners of the National brand in the U. S.

A few months later they formed a new company under the name First Union Technology, and began selling the same products with different labeling, using the brand name Mr. Flash.

With a greater library than they were allowed to localize, Konami formed the Ultra Games brand to extend their annual library to ten games a year.

In 1930, he formed the company Gordon Edgell & Sons which became, and still is, a famous Australian food brand.

At 16, after leaving college, they formed Tricity, named after the brand of electrical appliances.

During this time EA formed EA Sports, a brand name used for sports games they produced.

The newly formed company immediately became the largest cruise ship operator in the United Kingdom and, in 2002, it announced the introduction of the Ocean Village brand, which commenced operations in May 2003.

There are many actual cases of a company preserving a name which reflects the historical conditions under which it was first formed, particularly if that name is a well-known brand name in its field-as that of U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men clearly is.

Since Merck & Co. holds the rights to the Merck name in the U. S. and Canada, the company operates under the umbrella brand EMD Chemicals in North America, formed from the initials of Emanuel Merck, Darmstadt.

The brand Leica, better known for its high quality cameras, was formed on 2 April 1990 after the merger of several companies.

Hogan started as a separate brand formed in Hong Kong, but bought by Herpa as a cheap option.

" brand was launched in Italy, and later brought to North America in 1969 when the SynLube Company formed in Vancouver, BC.