CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Here then are my top label farewells for the current calendar year: Continental Airlines : As a result of the merger between United and Continental, the marketing folks did the right thing and picked one brand to make it easier to find your tail logo on the runway.

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CorporateIntel

JUNE 22, 2012

This mostly customer-friendly way of doing business is now every bit as normal for us as sitting on the back side of a travel agent’s CRT monitor waiting for him to input an airline seat query into Sabre not even a full generation ago (like, when I was in college).

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 9, 2013

U S Airways is also likely to evaporate when its merger with American Airlines is completed. I will climb out a little further and hope that Dell finds a fruitful path soon, as it is hard to believe the PC or laptop business is on the mend, or there is much room on the shelves for another flavor of tablets or tablet/keyboard combos.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 27, 2012

People have bet against railroads, phones, airlines, television, personal computers, and even guitar bands as fads—and that was before they had customers! The question of whether it makes sense to bet on a fad in a commercial, accelerated, low-loyalty, short-attention-span, vastly diverse, market-driven global economy seems moot.

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