New York is, of course, a great tourist destination. But with vacancy rates going up, it needs a spurt. Recently, The Fantastiks came back. That’s quite interesting. And then a version of the old Horn & Hardart Automat returned, in the format of Bamn! It got us thinking. What areMORE HERE
KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND – Great brands are associated with a place. This is true even more with alcohol other products that have elastic demands. The place of manufacture adds to the allure of the brand, and that helps build a market for it. You differentiate your liquor product not only byMORE HERE
So why is that everything American has to be made out of the country? Last weekend in White Stone, Virginia, we saw some nieces and nephews having fun with a bag of Dubble Bubble, and had to check the back of the package. It was there that we noticed thatMORE HERE
CAMDEN – We love the odd old brands. And one brand that could have been Armor All was Whiz Hollingshead. Whiz Hollingshead made all sorts of waxes and fluids for cars, as well as other products. The company was sort of the S.C. Johnson of the East Coast; their mainMORE HERE
Sometimes “branding” can go too far. Do you need a brand for your local strip shopping center? You bet. Here, a photo of S&S Plaza on Anna Maria Island in Florida. It’s one of hundreds of thousands of local strip centers. Of course, we love the classic sign, and that’sMORE HERE
SAVANNAH – So you want to start a business, and you need a name and an idea. How about looking back, and seeing what companies were prominent in your community, and re-starting the brand? That was the route of Savannah, Georgia based Leopold’s Ice Cream, which was restarted by StrattonMORE HERE
BATTLE CREEK – Just as Kellogg’s brought back Hydrox, it has now brought back the Mother’s Cookies brand. With the same taste , Mother’s cookies made their highly anticipated return to store shelves in the Western region of the United States starting on May 4 – just in time forMORE HERE
The website Springwise tells us about the store A Vida Portuguesa, a company that has tracked down Portugal’s unique brands and “opened a store dedicated to products that have resisted the urge to keep up with changing times.” The store is located in a former soap factory in Lisbon inMORE HERE
CAMDEN, N.J. – Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) and the Camden Riversharks have extended their stadium naming rights agreement for 10 more years to the end of 2020, with a company option to extend the agreement to 2030. Campbell’s was born in Camden, home to the RCA Nipper. Indeed, while soMORE HERE
HAMILTON – If you want a taste of Bermuda anytime, there is Barritts Bermuda Stone Ginger Beer. Barritts, founded by William John Barritt in 1874, was originally a dry grocer on Front & King Streets in Hamilton, bottling mineral water into Barritt’s Ginger Beer. His son Jno. Barritt took overMORE HERE