Dear Radio Shack So business stinks. But when we go by to the store closest to our house, we can’t tell the difference between a Radio Shack and the Sprint store at the other end of the shopping center. We got a great comment on BrandlandUSA today about one ofMORE HERE
We just wanted to make sure BrandlandUSA’s readers remember the late Melvin S. Cohen, who died Dec. 16 at age 90. Cohen, father of the Fry Baby and Salad Shooter, was chairman of National Presto Industries, at ticker (NYSE: NPK). A great obituary of him is in the Eau Claire,MORE HERE
We are gloomy and cry when thinking about American manufacturing and electronics. But it is always instructive to look back. One top product electronics product of the late 1950s was the Zenith Trans-Oceanic, or Royal 1000. To this day, it is seen as one of the top consumer radios ofMORE HERE
There are many questions that I have about electronics brands. For instance, why doesn’t Motorola sell car radios? It was their original business, and some sort of radio/cellphone combo would be the perfect way for them to get back into the cellular game. The other question. Why aren’t there HallicraftersMORE HERE