Editor's note: Brand dollars are still the biggest unclaimed prize on the interent.
Samsung, which hopes to rekindle the Note brand next year, recognized that it needs to do a lot of brand building to get over this disastrous episode.
It was speculated that Samsung would revive the Note brand this year, and the FE addition could be a stepping stone towards that goal.
But Samsung is evidently keen to try to limit brand damage to the Note brand — which it introduced in 2011, ushering in a successful run of phablet-sized smartphones and encouraging other smartphone makers to supersize handset screens.
As Reuters notes, the offer implies Samsung is not in fact intending to retire the Note brand name for good, despite it now being associated with smoldering batteries and exploding smartphones.
It's entering a partnership with 3M and its Post-it note brand to develop a special line of notepads and a camera to take notes, record them, and then seamlessly transfer them into Evernote's platform.
Samsung introduced its latest tablet today, the Galaxy Tab 3, and it's clear that the Tab line is destined to play a distinct second fiddle to the Galaxy Note brand.
Mr. Burke notes brands that tightly control their image and their collections, like Ralph Lauren -- and Jack Wills -- still are seeing sales gains.
It is the serving size used by the brands (except for the larger servings of Wild Catch and Dave's) and it includes skin and bones: 80 to 110 calories; with skin and bones there are 4.5 to 7 grams of fat; skinless, boneless salmon has 1 to 2 grams (unless noted, brands contain skin and bones).
As we've previously noted, brands are quickly starting to utilize Instagram in interesting ways.
