FRESNO, Calif.- After 105 years in business, renowned department store chain Gottschalks Inc. (Pink Sheets: GOTT.PK) began liquidation today. The going out of business sale will include all 58 Gottschalks locations in California (38), Washington (7), Alaska (5), Oregon (5), Nevada (1) and Idaho (2). Founded in 1904, Gottschalks becameMORE HERE
LOS ANGELES – Johnson Products, makers of Ultra Sheen and other African-American haircare products, will again be an independent company. Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) announced the sale of its Johnson Products Company to a company named RCJP Acquisition, Inc., a newly formed independent entity comprised of Los Angeles-based privateMORE HERE
PARIS – The International Herald Tribune has a redesign. Thankfully, the 122-year-old IHT, owned by The New York Times, has been able to keep a separate identity, though seems to be looking more and more like the New York Times, and staffs are now pretty much merged together. A newMORE HERE
Read about Cypress Gardens. It reopened. Read about it at our post, History of Cypress Gardens. BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.MORE HERE
WINTER HAVEN – Cypress Gardens Adventure Park is thankfully ditching its disastrous foray into becoming a theme park, and will rename itself Cypress Gardens with an adjacent Splash Island Water Park. Cypress Gardens closed on Nov. 17 and was the last day under old ownership for the park. Read theMORE HERE
At BrandlandUSA, we write alot about The Greenbrier resort and provide analysis on why it went into Chapter 11. Some columns by us, and anonymous guest writers: Unions the Problem at Greenbrier Problems at Greenbrier Solutions for the GreenbrierMORE HERE
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — CSX has decided to send its West Virginia-based Greenbrier Hotel Corporation into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Greenbrier Hotel Corp., a subsidiary of the railroad CSX, is the owner of The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs. As part of the filing, CSX will continue to finance theMORE HERE
On our main site, writer Matt Gottlieb writes about the National Invitation Tournament, a classic basketball brand that doesn’t get enough credit for being cool and classic. Read about it at Ode to Classic NIT Basketball. BrandlandUSA.com is the website home of America’s greatest, and classic brand names.MORE HERE
General Motors has a great truck tradition with Chevrolet. Here, a close up of the badge of a Chevrolet 3100 brand truck. BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.MORE HERE