The agreement will also let Cablevision sell YES as a stand-alone premium channel, or one that is part of a sports premium package, the executives said.
The first aim is to distinguish more clearly Peugeot's high-end family cars from Citroën's cheaper, trendy ones, pulling out Citroën's DS range as a stand-alone premium brand.
Unlike the Cadillac division of General Motors, or the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Porsche units of the Volkswagen Group, the stand-alone premium carmakers sell few of the small, efficient vehicles that would offset the thirstiness of their big, powerful luxury models — at least in the United States.
Consider the 2006 Roadliner S, the vanguard of Yamaha's stand-alone premium brand, Star Motorcycles.
Acuras look and drive like fancy Hondas and are frequently perceived as such, whereas Toyota Motor' s Lexus subsidiary is perhaps a stronger stand-alone, premium nameplate.
This makes it hard for operators to build brand loyalty, let alone sell premium services.Still, in some countries operators have rolled out 3G networks and begun to reap the benefits.
Parity for mental illness alone raises premiums 2 to 3percentt, Mr. Bachman said.
And it includes access to some services Yahoo has tried to sell on a stand-alone basis: premium Internet radio, telephone access to e-mail and news, and extra online storage for photos and files.
John Hawkins of Mercer, an actuarial firm, reckons that premiums have fallen by 10-20% over the past 18 months and Paternoster, a new specialist insurance company, puts the drop at about 8% in the first quarter alone (though premiums rose again by 3% in April).For this thank competition, first of all.
PLA claims that last year alone its premiums from new policies topped 1 trillion rupiah ($11.6m).On the national level, the continuing legal uncertainty and accompanying endemic corruption are driving investors away in droves: Indonesia is the only country in the region recording negative foreign direct investment.
Like stand-alone Spotify Premium accounts, under the family plan each member can create and manage their own descrete playlists/music library and get personalized song recommendations.
