Plus, by teaming with Gucci, she would also get its production and distribution know-how.
Global chains moved in, bought local brands and, with their marketing and distribution know-how, soon came to dominate the market.
New chief executive Tim Cook, though not nearly the flashy performer that Jobs was, brings the distribution know-how and operational insight that analysts say is more key now that Apple has established itself as a titan.
We're a studio, we have distribution deals everywhere, we know how much people are going to pay for them, we budget a film for what people are going to pay us for.
In the absence of a good potency assay, for example, it's hard to know how distribution processes are affecting a cell therapy product.
"Meteorologists need to know how the distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere changes with time," he says.
We care about unique product insights and novel distribution approaches and want to know how both will work in the short-term.
I like that you're trying to solve the overload problem, but I worry about distribution and I don't know how I would see it gaining mass adoption.
The team working on it is a mixture of economists, distribution experts from other industries and former car-company managers who know how traditional car distribution works.The project director, John Whiteman, points out that most consumers who order a customised car are used to waiting 50-60 days for it to be built and delivered.
"They have this fantastic global distribution network, but they don't know how to exploit it".
