`` 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.

In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products.

This is part of the creative futures plan, launched in 2006, to bring all BBC News output under the single brand name.

As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

The brand launched an online reality TV series called Bud House that followed the lives of 32 international football fans ( one representing each nation in the World Cup ) living together in a house in South Africa.

The company launched its Gravel line of products: personal multimedia players equipped with Wi-Fi, with the hope the Commodore brand would help them take off.

Dense-a UK snowboard apparel brand launched on 01. 10. 01 in Glasgow.

EverQuest launched with modest expectations from Sony on 16 March 1999 under its Verant Interactive brand and quickly became successful.

During recent years, the Fosters UK division of the brand focused on cultivating comedy-centric advertising and sponsorship arrangements and on 9 November 2011 they launched a trailer for their sponsored, online-only version of the hit 90s ' television show The Fast Show.

Orange Moldova launched its network in October 1998 under the brand of Voxtel and was the first and only carrier at the time.

Moldtelecom became the third carrier when it launched its own network in March 2007 under the brand of Unité.

He laid out a new direction for the brand including the design of the present Mazda marque ; he laid out a new product plan to achieve synergies with Ford, and he launched Mazda's digital innovation program to speed up the development of new products.

Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.

Tony Finn went on to do his own negotiations with Darby and company from Australia and the result as mentioned above were the US boards later launched under the ' Skurfer ' brand name in September, 1985.

In 2003 Durie designed and launched a range of outdoor furniture and gardening products under the brand name Patio by Jamie DuriePatio by Jamie Durie.

Coca leaves are also found in a brand of herbal liqueur called " Agwa de Bolivia " ( grown in Bolivia and de-cocainized in Amsterdam ), and a natural flavouring ingredient in Red Bull Cola, that was launched in March 2008.

In Fall 2008, Simmons Jewelry Co. and Sanrio debuted a collection of fine jewellery and watches named “ Hello Kitty ® by Simmons Jewelry Co ." The collection launched with Zales Corporation to further expand the reach of the brand, and it developed accessories to satisfy every Hello Kitty fan.

It was launched in the same year as other attempts to extend soft drink brand names with new iterations, including Pepsi Blue, Dr Pepper Red Fusion and Vanilla Coke.

Before the Pocket PC brand was launched, there were other Windows-based machines of the same form factor made by HP, Philips, and others called Palm-size PCs.

Subsequently, Hutchison renames Microtel to Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd, and on 28 April 1994 ' Orange ' brand was launched in the UK mobile phone market.

In 1999, Orange brand is launched in Austria, Belgium and Switzerland ; and licenses the brand to various operators in Hong Kong, Australia, Israel and India.

However, in 2000, Gateway sold the Amiga brand without having released any products.

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

Since 2000, NTT's ISDN offering have been known as FLET's ISDN, incorporating the " FLET's " brand that NTT uses for all of its ISP offerings.

The history of public transport authorities in London details the various organisations that have been responsible for the public transport network in and around London, England from 1933 until 2000 and have used the London Transport brand.

The transaction closed in October 2000 and the merged company was renamed Terra Lycos, although the Lycos brand continued to be used in the United States.

In April 2000 TeliaSonera entered the market with its own network under the brand of Moldcell and thus became the second carrier in the country.

The 2000 guidelines said: ' It has not been designed as a brand or identity, but to explain to rail travellers that there is a National Railway network and material carrying this descriptor covers all passenger Train Companies.

Škoda became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 2000, positioned as the entry brand to the group.

In the following years, Škoda became the fourth brand of the German group, as the Volkswagen Group raised its equity share first on December 19, 1994 to 60. 3 %, followed on December 11, 1995 to 70 % and finally taking 100 % ownership of the company on May 30, 2000.

SGI sold the Cray brand and product lines to Tera Computer Company on March 31, 2000 for $ 35 million plus one million shares.

The future of the Twilight 2000 brand is unclear.

The brand was the kit sponsor of Newcastle United football club between 1995 and 2000, during which time the team seriously challenged for the Premier League title and appeared at Wembley four times.

Under the European Union Protected Geographical Status laws introduced in 1992, the name Newcastle Brown Ale was granted protected brand status in February 2000.

In spite of Oldsmobile's critical successes since the mid-1990s, a reported shortfall in sales and overall profitability prompted General Motors to announce in December 2000 their plans to phase out the Oldsmobile brand.

* Genesee Cream Ale, a brand name for several beers produced by the Genesee Brewing Company ( High Falls Brewing Company from 2000 to 2009 )

The Tate logo was designed by international brand consultancy Wolff Olins in 2000 as part of a larger rebranding effort focused around the idea " look again, think again.

The logo was updated, as well, and on New Year's Day 2000, the Heat were to play their first game in the brand new AmericanAirlines Arena.

Forbes Magazine, on December 13, 2000, referred to Roth as having " engineered some 16 acquisitions while putting the pedal to the metal internally to transform Nortel from a simple telecom equipment provider into a global brand name identified with the Internet.

In 2000, Hachette Distribution Services created Relay, an international brand specializing in selling media products at public points of sale.

2000: the DELMIA brand is launched in order to address the digital manufacturing domain following a series of three acquisitions, including ( i ) Deneb Robotics, a U. S. company specialized in robotic simulation, ( ii ) Safework, a Canadian company specialized in human modeling technology, and ( iii ) EAI-DELTA, a German company specialized in manufacturing process management software.

ET with the launch of a primetime block called SNICK, which was home to shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel ; in 2004, the block was reformatted as the Saturday edition of TEENick ( which originally debuted on Sunday evenings in 2000 ), and the Saturday night block continues today without an official block name ( though A Night of Premieres is occasionally used when two or more programs feature new episodes on that night ); the TEENick branding, with its spelling altered to TeenNick, has since been used on the Nickelodeon sister channel previously known as The N. In June 1993, Nickelodeon resumed its magazine brand, Nickelodeon Magazine.

The Throng was founded in 2000 among Haverford students and focuses on exclusively on long-form improvisation, creating its own brand of comedy in the process.

Announced on October 9, 2000, the Series 2 Elise was a redesigned Series 1 using a slightly modified version of the Series 1 chassis to meet the new regulations, and the same K-series engine with a brand new Lotus-developed ECU.