What happens when your brokerage brand is tarnished? Read our post on the future of Wachovia Securities, A.G. Edwards and Wheat First and Butcher & Singer. Oddly, Butcher & Singer, the Main Line Philadelphia brokerage that merged with Wheat First, has resurfaced as a brand. It will now be aMORE HERE
We are getting requests. Bring it back!Read more at our post entitled: Donny Deutsch likes Hai Karate? (the adman turned TV host talking about old brands on the Today Show) Hai Karate Now on BrandlandUSA’s Top 100 Brands to Bring Back list. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com Questions? Email editorMORE HERE
One of the biggest search items for BrandlandUSA is the cold cream from Dorothy Gray called Satura. Dorothy Gray was one of the biggest cosmetic brands of the mid 20th century. Read our post on the history of Dorothy Gray in our post on Remembering Dorothy Gray. Sadly, since ourMORE HERE
There is a long list of dead logos from corporate redesigns, buyouts and design updates. Check out this graveyard of dead logos on the website www.logorip.com. They have an online “Book of Condolences” for things like: More on logos? Read the End of Corporate Design.MORE HERE
We’ve got some wacky brand extensions on our main website. You could: Buy a General Motors licensed kit to turn a Saturn into an Oldsmobile Hire a crew from Sears to do an not-so-extreme makeover of your house Buy a Columbia MP3 Machine from Sony Get news from the EIBMORE HERE
Look for our story tomorrow on the company we call General Electric, with it’s stock down in a stinky little area called BARELY $20!* We will be taking the position that GE ought not sell off its appliance and light bulb businesses. At right, some product innovations from the 1970s.MORE 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
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
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