A long Financial Times profile of Rimowa luggage, the brand that started me thinking about the Quality Brand Mittelstand. It's now owned by Bernard Arnault, the #1 alpha-dog brand investor on earth (more so than even you-know-who): https://www.ft.com/content/3583dbf6-e0d7-11e7-a0d4-0944c5f49e46 …
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The following are heritage brands to my mind: Hershey, General Electric, DuPont. Despite their heritage, you would never give a Hershey bar as a gift, Edison's history is irrelevant to your light bulb purchase, and no cares that Dupont invented neoprene, if China is cheaper.
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tl;dr: you need a long time to develop a brand, but it's not the time that matters, it's the brand. That's all I'm saying. So much text to explain a simple point that my tweets have a heritage.
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