OCALA – For any home holiday, the Cake Mate decoration brand comes out of the pantry. A bit of history on the brand. The company had its roots with the 1951 founding of The Pioneer Decorating Company. Pioneer was started by Louise Jones Crawford and her brother Bobby Jones inMORE HERE
Why Universal is cooler in California Brands are intimately connected with place. When you think of Camden, you think of Campbell’s soup and RCA records. When you think of Hollywood, you think of Universal City. A Steinway or Swingline needs to be made in Queens. Marlboro needs to be madeMORE HERE
This morning, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was considering liquidating inventory and was looking at debtor-in-possession financing. They have also hired FTI Consulting and Kmart’s Chapter 11 firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. It now appears that dire things are on the table. But theMORE HERE
Here, Bloomingdale’s at Orlando’s Mall of Millenia. Visit our main website, www.brandlandusa.com to find out about some of the department store brands that DIDN’T make it through the consolidations of the former Federated Department Stores. Questions? E-mail the editor, Sarasota freelance writer Garland PollardMORE HERE
We happened upon this Cadillac in Celebration Florida at the Celebration Hotel. The town is just over a decade old, but it already has the feeling of a real place. On our main website, read some of the stories mentioning Cadillac: GM’s Unpopular Models Auto Boards Discuss Future of OldsmobileMORE HERE
Solutions and links for struggling brands We’ve got alot of advice at BrandlandUSA. And we love to share it. We collected a group of our “Advice” postings over the last year, in the hopes that someone that needed some inspiration and advice over a struggling brand name might find someMORE HERE
CALISTOGA – A great brand can come from doing something simply and well for just a few decades. Take the case of Dr. John Wilkinson and his Dr. Wilkinson’s Hot Springs Resort of California. Today, his children Mark and Carolynne are the owners, and have run the mud zone forMORE HERE
We thought that the discount store layaway was gone. But this season, Kmart is pushing it in a new series of ads. In fact, in the small print on the ads, Kmart announces that they are the only major national retailer that does it. Good idea. While cannot predict whatMORE HERE
Look to BrandlandUSA.com for ideas on how to save your daily newspaper. Frankly, what is happening to the industry can stop, and we have solutions. Read our story on the main BrandlandUSA.com website. It is called 20 Ways to Save Your Newspaper. It’s about dailies, but weekly publishers can learnMORE HERE
We found there is another “brand” that is becoming extinct. It’s the English village church. We read that some in larger cities, Anglican churches have become mosques, and that is sad. Mostly, these churches just get abandoned, and sold off and deconsecrated. For instance, St. Mark’s in Mayfair might beMORE HERE