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Branded

BRANDed, an American sports marketing and management company


Ahmed Yassin

Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Defense Minister, branded Yassin "the Palestinian Bin Laden" and said, "If we have to balance how many more terrorists Yassin would have sent, how many terror attacks he would have approved, if we weigh this on the scales, we acted rightly".

BAE Panther

Iveco LMV, a small armoured vehicle supplied to the British Army branded as a BAE product

Beer in the Netherlands

The monks that run the Koningshoeven Brewery in Berkel-Enschot brew several beers, mostly branded La Trappe, and has been active since 1884, while the De Kievit brewery of the Zundert abbey was only founded in 2013 and brews a beer named Zundert.

CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank

Additionally FirstCaribbean also offers a co-branded University of the West Indies VISA-Classic, Gold or Platinum credit card for students, alumni and staff.

CJCE-FM

CJCE-FM, branded as The Juice, is a low-power Canadian radio station broadcasting a Christian format airing at 93.7 FM, licensed to Godfrey, Ontario.

Electrohome

From 1984 to 1999, Electrohome branded TVs were produced under license by Mitsubishi Electric, and from 1999 to the present by Jutan (distributed by Canadian distributor Citizen Electronics).

Electronika

Model names for Electronika-branded Nintendo Game & Watch clones start with IM (ИМ — Игра Микропроцессорная, Russian acronym for "microprocessor game").

Express Payment System

Banco de Oro has its own terminal independent of the EPS either branded under the SM name or under its own name.

Foreign Office papal visit memo

The memo suggested that Pope Benedict XVI, during his visit, could launch a range of branded condoms, visit an abortion clinic, bless a gay marriage and apologize for the Spanish Armada.

GBH

WGBX-TV (branded 'GBH 44), a public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Gibson Advanced Jumbo

In 1931 Gibson's introduced its first versions of the Dreadnought acoustic guitars branded by C. F. Martin & Company.

Gibson's Ray Whitley-branded "Recording King", introduced in 1939, was a similar sized flat-top guitar with rosewood back and sides and a sunburst spruce top.

GM Card

The GM Card is a co-branded rewards credit card program with consumer cards offered by Capital One and business cards offered by Chase.

Gothaer Waggonfabrik

However, the company encountered a cash crisis in 1928 and the Dixi branded auto-business was sold to BMW: the Dixi 3/15 DA-1 was rebadged in 1928 as the BMW 3/15 DA-2, the name by which today the little car is better remembered.

Great American Music Hall

In 1936, Sally Rand, known for her fan dance and bubble dance acts, acquired the property and branded it the Music Box.

Gus the groundhog

Gus has also appeared dressed in both Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms with other similarly uniformed men in a licensed co-branding with those two National Football League teams, as certain instant games are branded for those teams.

HTC Desire 601

The Desire 601 was first revealed by evleaks in July 2013 under the codename "Zara", describing it as a "mashup" between the HTC One and recent Desire-branded devices, and indicating that it might be released on Sprint in the United States.

Hugo Lloris

Former national team goalkeeper Grégory Coupet credited his performance as "phenomenal", while the French media branded him "Saint Lloris", which is a play on the nickname of Real Madrid counterpart Iker Casillas, who is considered one of the top goalkeepers in Europe at the moment.

Island Line, Isle of Wight

In 1989 the passenger service was branded as Island Line for the first time, as the name and logo was included on the "new" Class 483 trains' livery.

Jimenez Arms

It produced firearms variously branded as Jennings Firearms at its Irvine, California facility, as well as under the brand name of Bryco Arms at its former Carson City, Nevada facility, and at its Costa Mesa, California facility.

KAAH-TV

From 1986 to 1990, the station was branded as "K-Magic" – and even carried Los Angeles Lakers basketball games featuring Magic Johnson (who, in one promo for "K-Magic", said, "What a great name for a TV station!").

KAGS-LD

KAGS-LD (branded on-air as KAGS-HD) is the NBC affiliate for the Brazos Valley of Central Texas, licensed to Bryan.

KBANK

Christiania Bank, a Norwegian bank, also branded as Kreditkassen or K-Bank

KDBZ

On September 7, 2011, at 12:01 am, midway through The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough, KDBZ changed their format from modern AC (branded as "The Buzz") to adult contemporary, branded as "The Peak".

KICK

CKIC-FM, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, branded as KICK-FM

KOLN

UPN was broadcast on a DT2 subchannel of KOLN and KGIN under the banner UPN Nebraska; the service switched to MyNetworkTV in September 2006 and was locally branded as "MyTV" until being renamed "10-11 Central Nebraska" after the acquisition of KSNB in 2013.

KOSC

The two stations are both branded as "KDFC", and are owned by the University of Southern California, via its Classical Public Radio Network.

KTUZ-TV

The station signed on the air three months later on November 10, branded as "OK30", under the ownership of Little Rock-based Equity Broadcasting Corporation.

LXTV

Originally branded as Code.TV, and focused on web distribution, the production company´s founders rebranded themselves as "LXTV" - LX an abbreviation for Luxury - as art of a deal made with local New York channel NYC TV in which the broadcaster would air the LXTV content over the air on WNYE Channel UHF 25.

Mosh BMX

In 2002 Giant signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Satellite (a company that then managed the former GT Air Show) to begin manufacturing Giant branded bikes to boost the Giant label.

Movies OK

It is also the second channel to be branded under the OK brand rather than the STAR brand after Life OK, a general entertainment channel which was launched in December 2011 to replace STAR One.

Nation Media Group

The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, are currently celebrating their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as 50 Golden Years.

Neusis construction

Using neusis where other construction methods might have been used, was branded by the late Greek mathematician Pappus of Alexandria (ca. 325 AD) as "a not inconsiderable error".

Pentium D

The processor was based on the dual-core Pentium D branded Smithfield, but with Hyper-threading enabled, thus any operating system saw four logical processors (two physical and two virtual).

Pepsi Max

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max all use lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew was renamed "Mtn Dew," and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max.

Qualcomm

After integrating the company, Qualcomm re-branded their interface markup language, TrigML, and its accompanying integrated development environment (IDE) as uiOne.

Robert Berning

Under California law at the time, there were fair trade provisions for alcoholic beverages which made it illegal to sell wines at a cheaper price than branded competitors, such as Gallo's.

Subaru Outback

The "Outback" name has been utilized on two different Subaru branded vehicles.

SuperMedia

The company's non-branded services include: search engine marketing (SEM), Google Adwords Certified services (PPC), website building, and search engine optimization (SEO) guidance.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

The studio believed that it was similar in some ways to director Rob Hardy's film Trois and branded it as a franchise.

Tsingtao Brewery

In the 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, a plastic ashtray branded with Tsingdao Beer is mentioned in a scene taking place in the bar The Chatsubo.

Universal Channel

In South Africa, Hallmark Channel was re-branded under that name on March 24, 2010 for DStv subscribers.

Vistaprint

In 2008, Vistaprint announced a strategic partnership with Intuit, a supplier of accounting software, tying their service into Intuit's QuickBooks software using an Intuit-branded web site.

Wheel 2000

The Discover-branded tour, coordinated by the Chicago office of New Jersey-based promotion agency DVC Group, also featured Sidoni as host, with Ray as Lucy joining him again.

WIOT

WIOT (104.7 FM) – branded 104.7 WIOT – is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Toledo, Ohio, serving Metro Toledo and Monroe County, Michigan.

WMYL

In 2006 Ron Meredith and M&M Broadcasting purchased WXJB, WFXY and WANO in Middlesboro, KY, Harrogate, TN and Pineville, KY, immediately spun off WFXY and WANO and changed the call letters to WMYL branded the station as Merle FM and moved it to Knoxville, TN licensed to Halls Cross Roads.

Zone Romantica

On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009.


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