What happened to our old friends Merita Sweet Sixteen doughnuts? They are now Hostess Sweet Sixteen. Not good. Visit our main site BrandlandUSA.com for an in depth report on the issue entitled We’re Mad About our Sweet Sixteen Doughnuts.MORE HERE

I’d like some Jiffy mix pumpkin pie please for Thanksgiving! Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

  The classic calculator of the 1970s. Still works. Love Texas Instruments. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

  Once the brand of the Friedman Marks company of Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia. It was around until the mid-1990s. It was a great brand, and could have been Jos A. Bank. Or not. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or emailMORE HERE

A great classic brand of cashmere. What decade, we are not sure.   Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

LONDON – Decades of missteps and a brutal retail recession have hurt the British retailer Woolworth’s, which was one of the few surviving legacies of the giant F.W. Woolworth Co., a company that closed in the U.S. in the late 1990s. In mid-November, the stock price was less than £2.MORE HERE