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Helping Prospective Customers Adopt AI

12/27/2025

Image: Apple Store Detroit

Corporate Challenge: Generating new clients during a highly competitive AI boom.

Ironbound Strategy: Partnering with universities creates value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: California based Apple teamed up with Michigan State University to host small and medium size businesses for workshops on how to implement AI and smart manufacturing. The initiative helped the university diversify their ability to teach AI and specialize in Apple’s AI platforms. Brands that expand their use and implementation capabilities in AI will survive the first wave of the incoming AI revolution.

* Apple’s total revenue grew from $383B in 2023 to $416B in 2025

** Meanwhile Microsoft who has a large stake in Open AI (Chat GPT) rose from $211B in 2023 to an estimated $293B in 2025

Growing a Customer Base with the 6/7 Meme

11/27/2025

Image: Domino’s Pizza

Corporate Challenge: Capitalizing on the 6/7 meme

Ironbound Strategy: Positively responding to memes is a creative way to create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: Michigan based Domino’s Pizza took advantage of the viral 6/7 meme. A previous pizza deal for $6.99 was reduced to $6.70 to capitalize on the meme. When brands participate in social cultural trends, the brand becomes instantly celebrated and widely talked about. Gen Z will become the largest purchasing generation in history, and now is a ripe time to build brand loyalty with them.

* Domino’s Pizza revenues have only slowly grown from $4.3B in 2021 to $4.7B in 2024. Their trailing twelve month revenue is now $4.8B

** In the same timeframe Domino’s Pizza earnings-per-share has increased from $14.04 in 2021 to $17.04 in 2024

Brands Creating Value for New Mothers

10/1/2025

Image: Ford Motor Company Merchandise

Corporate Challenge: Creative ways of attracting the best employees.

Ironbound Strategy: Paying attention to the needs of new mothers can help a brand create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: Michigan based Ford Motor Company is opening a new corporate headquarters after 70 years. One feature of the new building will be “Mother’s Rooms” where new mothers can nurse for their baby in comfort and privacy. The rooms will be outfitted with comfortable chairs, a minifridge, snacks, and lactation friendly teas. Creating value for new mothers is becoming a new way of highlighting a brand’s willingness to create value for employees and attract the best talent.

* Ford’s Revenue has increased from $136B in 2021 to $185B last FY

Brands Bringing Fans Together

9/21/2025

Image: Football Jersey

Corporate Challenge: Creating hype for your brand during football season.

Ironbound Strategy: Bridging a brand with sports is a great way to create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: California based Chipotle created excitement when they offered b.o.g.o deals for anyone showing up in a college football jersey. Players, students, alumni, and fans showed up in crowds dressed in jerseys from colleges across the country. Creating value for sports fans is an excellent way to grow brand awareness on a national level, and bring people together.

* Chipotle’s earnings have risen from $7.5B in 2021 to $11.5B last FY

** With 3,726 total stores at the end of 2024, the company hopes to open 315 to 345 new stores in 2025 - increasing their footprint by 10% in one year

Creating Value for Customers with Augmented Reality

8/1/2025

Image: American Eagle on Snapchat

Corporate Challenge: Growing a brand using Augmented Reality.

Ironbound Strategy: Pioneering new technologies creates value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: California based Snapchat partnered with American Eagle for a first-of-its-kind shopping experience. With 95% of American Snapchat users reporting they will shop in-store for clothes this summer, American Eagle has positioned their 800 US stores to use snapchat’s new promotion platform to draw them in. American Eagle will have digital animations highlighting their stores within the Snap Map (Snapchat’s integrated AR map), along with augmented reality lenses to help customers try on different AE jeans using Snapchat lenses with click-to-buy options integrated in the app. The next generation of consumers are being influenced to buy from brands that have leveraged Augmented Reality capabilities and are actively creating value for them.

* In the U.S. there are 107 million active users of Snapchat. In the last quarter, Snap Map (Snapchat’s integrated map) was accessed over 40 billion times.

** American Eagle is Snapchat’s first fashion brand to leverage Snap’s “Promoted Places” which was beta tested in partnership with McDonalds and Taco Bell.

Using AR to Create Value for Society

7/20/2025

Image: Snapchat

Corporate Challenge: Discovering ways of using Augmented Reality.

Ironbound Strategy: Partnering with non-profits can create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: California based Snapchat partnered with the Palace of Versailles to bring the Royal Court of Louis IV back to life. Any Snapchat user can use augmented reality to immerse themselves in a masked ball, a ballet, a comedy show, or watch 1700’s acrobatics across different spaces around the Royal Palace. Software Developers are using Snapchat’s upgraded Lens Studio that integrates machine learning models to create new lens capabilities for Snapchat’s 850 million global active users. Brands that launch new technologies can benefit above expectations when they initially use their product to create value for society.

* Snapchat increased revenue from $4.6B in FY2023 to $5.3B in FY2024, with trailing twelve month revenue above $5.5B for FY2025.

Creating Value by Becoming a Sustainability Leader

6/20/2025

Image: SC Johnson

Corporate Challenge: Taking action versus leading the charge.

Ironbound Strategy: Becoming a leader in protecting the earth creates skyrocketing value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: Wisconsin based SC Johnson has been using reclaimed ocean plastic in their product packaging in an effort to become sustainability leaders. The company employs 15,000 locals in Indonesia, Phillipines, and Brazil, who have reclaimed 500 million plastic bottles from tidal waters. The next generation of consumers are choosing brands that take leadership roles in creating value for society. Brands that pay attention to the earth are experiencing sustainable growth and extended customer loyalty.

* Global Revenue of SC Johnson Brands have seen steady and positive YoY increases for the last 15 years, with estimated annual revenues in the range of $9.4B to $11.3B.

Brands Creating Value for Memorial Day

5/25/2025

Image: Colonial Williamsburg collaboration with The Home Depot

Corporate Challenge: Creating value for veterans, while expressing the brand’s core values.

Ironbound Strategy: Giving back to veterans is a fantastic way to create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: Georgia based The Home Depot partnered with Colonial Williamsburg to offer Veterans and their families free admission to the historic park and museums on Memorial Day Weekend. The Home Depot Foundation has an ongoing commitment to improve the lives of veterans and their families. They even helped convert a historic building into a Liberty Lounge where all who have served in the military can escape the southern heat and enjoy free wi-fi and free cold beverages. Brands grow faster when they display patriotism by lifting up veterans.

* A few miles from downtown Colonial Williamsburg is Ironbound Road, the namesake of Ironbound Consulting Group.

** Over the last 10 years, Home Depot has grown from $83B in sales to $159B in sales.

*** Home Depot is now the largest employer of U.S. Veterans.

World Altering Innovation from Collaboration

4/21/2025

Image: Nvidia

Corporate Challenge: How to make your company become part of futuristic innovation.

Ironbound Strategy: Collaborating with other brands is an expedient way of creating value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: California based Nvidia teamed up with Disney to explore the future of AI Robotics. In 2025 they unveiled Blue, a tactile responsive AI robot that neither company could have developed on their own. World altering technologies are often developed quickly when great minds come together. Creating value for society attracts great employees, and great employees devote their all of their talents when companies create value for them.

* Since their inceptions, both Nvidia and Disney have been renown for constantly creating value for their employees

** Nvidia has seen a meteoric rise over the past few years, from $5.0B in revenue when they collaborated with Lincoln to build the first level 4 autonomous vehicle in 2017, to $130.5B in revenue last fiscal year

Perks of Paid Time Off for Volunteer Work

3/23/2025

Image: Goldman Sachs

Corporate Challenge: Brand building while giving employees paid time off.

Ironbound Strategy: Employees working in the community is a surefire way to create value for customers, employees, and society.

Ironbound Action: New York based Goldman Sachs built Community TeamWorks in 1997 to give employees an opportunity to take paid time off, and do good in the community. Last year, 19,000 Goldman Sachs employees spent 103,000 hours with 660 non-profits to complete 1,400 service projects in nearby communities. One GS analyst brought 20 employees to help wheelchair bound youngsters, adaptively surf a wave for their first time. When a brand encourages their workforce to give back to the community, in principal philanthropic value creation will always contribute to top line growth.

* Goldman Sachs has seen revenues grow from $7.4B when Community TeamWorks began in 1997 to $53.5B in 2024.