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
We wish we were here, RIGHT NOW, having a Big Boy Breakfast or some sort of lunch special at this Richmond, Virginia restaurant. It is on Jefferson Davis Highway south of downtown. This photograph was taken in 1987 or so. Thus it might be logical that there is a PlymouthMORE HERE
Consumers love regional dairy brands, including the Sunny Florida Dairy of Tampa. Regional dairies could be the next microbrews. If they did a few things. Sunny Florida is a great regional milk brand, and the largest independent dairy in Florida, founded by the Guagliardo family in 1911. It has aMORE HERE