Some analysts suggest the company's stock is being bruised by the competition from marketing powerhouses like Nike Inc., which introduced its own sports sandal last summer.

Its biggest challengers aren't global marketing powerhouses like Mars, but two California upstarts.

For a multinational marketing powerhouse like Sony, designing that experience - and figuring out whom it might appeal to - is practically a science.

He is a marketing powerhouse, and the Beckham name is known to many people who have little interest in his athletic talents.

The second was the arrival of MTV, a marketing powerhouse.

From there, Surge Licensing formed an unstoppable creative marketing powerhouse that set a new standard of excellence in the licensing and merchandising industries.

Mr. Kirshbaum built Warner Books into a marketing powerhouse, famous for its lavish promotions and zealous sales force.

In retrospect, the new ad campaign marked the beginning of Apple's re-emergence as a marketing powerhouse.

Clariant is a marketing powerhouse; Ciba a new-product machine.

But we will be creating a marketing powerhouse for banking in the future.