How does one place a value on a brand’s name and how does it relate to profitability? This piece takes a practical approach to measuring the realized value of a brand using a case study comparison. The results are significant beyond the original expectations of this research. In this study we compared two brands of…
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Innovation and Invention via Permission to Fail
The essence of innovation is the process of exploring new ways of doing things, new thoughts, and experimenting. By this very act it can be said that one needs to let go of the known, safe and secure in order to risk failure of a new approach. It is a matter of risking the proven for the…
Mcafee Facing Class Action Suit Over Tricking Customers Into Monthly Payments
What happens if the company you hire to protect you against fraud and information theft is the one that helps deceive you? McAfee is one of the two computer security companies that dominate the marketplace. The other computer security company is Norton. The vast majority of business and personal computers have either McAfee or Norton software installed, which…
Inventors, inventions and Innovation
Throughout history the success of nations has been based on their people’s ability and aptitude for innovation. If it were not for the English long-bow the English would not have been as effective against the French during the Hundred Years’ War, especially in the battles of Crecy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and the famous Battle of Agincourt (1415). In modern…
How to Value a Business the Realistic Way
When it comes to buying, selling or investing in a business the important question becomes ’How much is the business worth?’ As an investment banker and investor I have looked at over a thousand businesses over the last 20 years. Those businesses were sometimes represented by a realtor, sometimes represented by a lawyer, sometimes represented by an accountant,…
Increasing Share Price Through Shareholder Diversification
In the stock market there are various ways to determine the value of a stock. However, ultimately it isn’t the analysts or stock brokers that determine the price of a stock, though they can have significant influence. It is what the investors are willing to pay to acquire that stock and what sellers are willing…
TD Bank Takes Gamble with Paying $4,778 Plus Debt Per Credit Card Account
Recently I wrote an article about how to calculate the value of a business. Toronto-Dominion Bank deal is an example of the irrelevance of valuation techniques used by most industry professionals. In the end it is what a buyer is willing to pay for a business that determines the company’s value. Image via Wikipedia The Toronto-Dominion…
McGuinty’s Presentation Ignores ‘Inconvenient Truths’
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty put on a dog and pony show for a lunch audience of several hundred in Kitchener on Wednesday. During his 25-minute slide show meant to show Ontario’s improving economy McGuinty provided flashbacks to the province’s boom years of mining and manufacturing, the auto industry bailout and claimed that the province has…
Insurance Scammers Caught
Van Tuan Doan and his passengers, Thuy Nhan Ai Le and Quang Dat Nguyen are the target of a civil law suit launched by Waterloo Insurance Co., an arm of the Economical Group which will attempt to reclaim money’s paid out and lost as a result of their false claims. On November 13, 2000 an…
Procter And Gamble Planning Dry Cleaning And Car Washes
This post is a comment to Mitchel Osak’s article. I was at P&G on the Downy brand during part of the time you were there. I too am a fan at some of the things the company has done over the years and a little bewildered at other initiatives it has undertaken. From a corporate…
