Sentence examples for defunct brand from inspiring English sources

Slumming students here used to drink Blitz, now a defunct brand.

The store may stand on the site once occupied by the iconic, and now defunct, brand.

A defunct brand – Williams & Glyn's – is being revived to allow the branches to be separated from RBS's network.

Previously used by the Queen at the christening of her own sons, the pram is a prize model by the very expensive (and now defunct) brand Millsons.

Another hopeful, People Express, wants to revive a defunct brand known for its low-fare service to provide direct service between Newport News, Va., and places like Providence, R.I., and Pittsburgh on the East Coast, and Orlando in Florida.

A defunct brand until the current chief executive Victor Muller revived the firm in 2000, Spyker hopes to win back customers for Saab by focusing on three or four niche models, eating up an anticipated $1 billion in development costs.

"They should have given him a Saturn, or a Pontiac," my father said, mentioning two of G.M.'s defunct brands.

PAGE 31 MAGAZINE MAKING MONEY From Defunct Brands Manufacturers spend millions of dollars building up a name for their products, and sometimes the products just disappear.

One reader predicts that Hummer will be "the next Merkur, or Eagle [two defunct brands]." "They have a one-note product line," he writes.

"How many corporations are out there rifling through the defunct brands of America's past like a bin of used records, looking for something, anything, that will give them that soft Edison-bulb glow of authenticity?" — Something Borrowed, Something Blue.

Working under the name Afterawhile, the artist collects typewriters in all different languages, often from defunct brands like Smith Corona, Mercedes, and Hermes.