Fully 63% of restaurants in Canada are independent brands.

Christian Jacques is also one of the last independent brands in the Swiss watch industry.

"We need to cultivate a group of independent famous brands that have international influence," the report stated.

Comit continued to be run as an independent brand until June 2011.

"It's been a struggle for them to establish their own independent brand," she said.

Some new independent professional brands have also arrived, with their own color ranges.

Drug Discovery Today was spun off as an independent brand.

"We're independent brands, we did this for a reason, not to be like the establishment brands," he said.

Archive maintained Irwin as an independent brand for a while after the acquisition.

It is one of the last independent brands in the Swiss watch industry.