American Tobacco continued to sell such brands as Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.
It's understandable that such brands also look to LGBT organisations like Pride to express their solidarity and form commercial partnerships.
This is arguably better all round than consigning such brands to luxury malls, but it is hardly radical cultural urbanism.
When foreign companies move to acquire such brands, it naturally triggers a cultural anxiety about the decline of American influence.
It is not alone.InterContinental operates worldwide under its own name, and through such brands as Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn.
Unilever, with such brands as Breyers and Ben & Jerry's, would fall behind the Nestlé-Dreyer's company, into third place in supermarket sales.
Such brands seem all the more sturdy as the music business drifts toward a digital haze of endlessly swapped, instantly disposable Internet files.
Estee Lauder makes and sells skin and hair care products and fragrances in 110 countries under such brands as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Tommy Hilfiger, and Donna Karan.
They are not afraid to wear vintage clothes and know such brands as Supreme, even when they are not represented in Russia.
Cowgill says fostering those relationships through investment in the look and ambience of stores has been key to keeping such brands on board.
The deal will make Cadbury, through its Australian subsidiary, Schweppes Cottee's, the exclusive bottler of such brands as Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, 7 Up and Mountain Dew.
