Packers (6-0) at Vikings (1-5) Sunday, 4 15 p.m. Line: Packers by 9. Donovan McNabb, whose declining accuracy has the Vikings passing game look like a game of pin the tail on the donkey, has been mercy-benched so the Vikings can develop the off-brand prospect Christian Ponder.
But for companies like G.M. and Daimler, which also makes trucks under the Freightliner brand, the prospect of increasingly expensive fuel is a real threat to their business, especially in large vehicles.
François-Henry Bennahmias, president and chief executive of Audemars Piguet, reached for an automotive metaphor to explain why he remained confident about the brand's prospects for 2013 in China.
Specifically, its "brand, business, prospects, financial condition and operating results could be materially damaged". .
In disclosing risks, it also warned that delays or complications surrounding that car or other products "could harm our brand, business, prospects, financial condition and operating results".
"This transaction is an important affirmation of the Maidenform brands, our prospects and the hard work and dedication of our team".
Market Watch, a trade publication owned by M. Shanken Communications, named HobNob a "hot prospect" brand for 2009.
Sounds painful… With temperatures plummeting across the UK, Brand faces the prospect of snow and ice when she climbs up to 1,530ft while crossing the Pennines.
Those consumers, given access to rarecars and even rarer access to company executives and engineers, get nearly giddy over their personal role in the electric future, morphing into spokespeople for the brand and ideal prospects for coming models.
Fueling the concerns, the company announced yesterday that Susan D. Wellington, an architect of Gatorade's dominance, would leave for "personal reasons," an explanation that some analysts took as code words for the brand's waning prospects.
In software, the risks are now simply too great not to make a similar trade-off, he says.Microsoft argues that the constant attacks against its software 4,000 so far against Windows, according to Symantec, an anti-virus company—are threatening its brand and business prospects even without litigation.
