Save Budweiser; Busch Family Keeps the Parks?
Part of what makes a brand authentic is where it is made, what company makes it and what other things the company does. Budweiser is one of those brands. Not only... Read more.
Where’s Romper Room?
It’s time for Romper Room. Again. A Chicago company, River West Brands, has re-registered the defunct brand name, according to the USPTO. If you lived at the... Read more.
Harvard Survey on Brand Attributes
Can Wal-Mart feel? Does Disney possess self-control? Researchers in psychology at Harvard University are interested in how people attribute mental capacities to... Read more.
Today Show: Donny Wears Hai Karate
The Today Show recently featured the effort to bring back old brands, including the Hydrox cookie. The big question. Does Donny Deutsch actually wear Hai Karate?... Read more.
Bonwit Teller Said to Return
CHICAGO – The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Bonwit Teller will be coming back. It will come back as a boutique, now that revitalization company River West... Read more.
Stumped: Village Inn Pizza, Norfolk’s Janaf
Our memory of this place is totally gone. But apparently there was a Village Inn Pizza chain that had arcades. It was a big enough operation that individual franchises... Read more.
Legendary Charity Brands: Remembering Community Chest
The excellent blog The Agitator, for non-profits, had a great post on bringing old charity brands back to life. Fascinating. Here at BrandlandUSA, we always MISSED... Read more.
Missing CBS TV’s In the News
In the 1960s and 70s, television provided hours of entertaining but educational fare for kids. Things like ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock. The best of the best was... Read more.
Ten Brands With Nine Lives: Fox News to Mini
The idea of a brand-life cycle is (mostly) flat-out wrong. Certainly, brands have phases and iterations, but the wholesale jettisoning of old brands by large conglomerates... Read more.
Pneumatic Airline Music, Greatly Missed
Miss those pneumatic airline audio programs? There was a time not so long ago when airline music and audio came from what were basically stethoscopes. It was the... Read more.