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Twelve Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Harvard Business Review

Here are some twelve routes to real barriers the last six of which involve the brand. A high investment protected brands like CNN, ESPN, and Kirin's Ichiban for many years. Brand networks. Brand equity. Brand loyalty. Branded differentiators. I would be interested in examples of others. Investment.

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

Filling out its brand portfolio. The most natural explanation is one that would fit Unilever’s recent pattern of re-shuffling its categories and brands. ” More specifically, male grooming is Unilever’s largest growth driver, according to Chet Henderson, Unilever’s VP of Insight, Personal Care.