Garland Pollard is publisher/editor of BrandlandUSA. Since 2006, the website BrandlandUSA.com has chronicled the history and business of America’s great brands. He has decades of experience across all media, including newspapers, TV, radio, magazines and the web.
Noxzema Medicated Shave, once a leading shaving cream brand in the U.S., is now apparently discontinued. Supplies of the shave cream online are selling from $30 to $150 a can on eBay and Amazon, as precious as post-Prohibition liquor. They are still available in Europe, however. The original Noxzema skinMORE HERE
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – The Italian company Ali Group, owner of dozens of professional cooking appliance brands across the world, has made a $24 a share cash offer for Welbilt, a Florida-based maker of brands that include the Manitowoc ice maker and Garland stove. On Tuesday, July 6, 2021MORE HERE
Navistar has its beginning with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, founded by Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus McCormick’s father Robert McCormick began work on a reaper in 1809 at his Virginia farm, Walnut Grove. MORE HERE
It’s summer. Time to think about great brands of frozen drinks. The history of the frozen ice drink goes back to Roman times or before. But the ubiquitous frozen drink, on every corner, dates from the mid 1960s, and the invention of the ICEE machine. While the ICEE was theMORE HERE
The new line is called Kimberly Whitman for Antonio Melani; the company is calling it a new “limited-edition capsule collection” that is one of developed in collaboration with celebrated lifestyle and entertaining expert and author, Kimberly Whitman.MORE HERE
PHILADELPHIA – To celebrate its centennial, Pep Boys will launch a promotional road trip that will, among other things, emphasize its new role as a repair shop, and not a parts retailer. But it seems that their founding mascots, Manny, Moe and Jack, might not be along for the ride.MORE HERE
The question becomes, then, what are the important facets of the brand, other than Rush. And is the new show utilizing these criteria to provide continuity to listeners and advertisers? MORE HERE
Yet another old brand of bourbon whiskey has a new life, the Kentucky Senator brand. Kentucky Senator was originally distilled and bottled by Crigler & Crigler (1874-1916) of Covington, Kentucky, and later by Double Springs Distillers, Inc. of Bardstown. The 2021 revival of the brand is led by Kentucky SenatorMORE HERE
A happy “Ye Old Fashioned Easter” from that very special Brooklyn Emporium, Abraham & Straus. Back in 1910, they had Millinery in three different places, and in three types. The untrimmed millinery was on the main floor, east building, 273. Ready to wear millinery was on the Mezzanine Floor, EastMORE HERE
INDIANAPOLIS – There are many who swear by Bar Keeper’s Friend. It’s a safe type of abrasive, based on plants. Bar Keeper’s Friend is great for cleaning copper-bottomed kitchen pans. Its main ingredient is oxalic acid; its distinctive scent just smells like cleanliness. Its mild abrasives clean everything from fiberglassMORE HERE
