There is a new Time Inc. service called Maghound. With Maghound, you get a subscription to all the Time magazines, and you can pick and choose which ones you like. The logo is cool. While we wish Maghound well, we hope it doesn’t go the way of that other uber-TimeMORE HERE
It’s the brand Thum. We thought this was a hilarious brand that we found at Walgreens. We didn’t know parents still worried about thumb-sucking, but glad the product is out there. Just paint on fingertips. And it doesn’t cause nausea or stomach upset.MORE HERE
Thinking of J. Arthur Rank, the British entertainment company. Not only did they have a theater chain, but they produced documentary films, presumably to show in the Rank theatre chain. Below is a film on grooving London fashions of the 1960s. One treat? An interior of the original Biba store.MORE HERE
In this post-racial America, we Americans are mature enough to be able to watch Song of the South again. We have the Song of the South on our new handy dandy Facebook application called 100 Brands to Bring Back from BrandlandUSA. We hope if you are on Facebook, you willMORE HERE
We happened upon this on the Fourth of July in Sarasota. It’s one of the many circus companies still in Circus City U.S.A., Sarasota, Florida. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE
We had a reader searching for the cologne Wolff Freres. Any ideas? Visit our main site at www.brandlandusa.com tomorrow for more on the search. More ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE
We had a request from a BrandlandUSA reader to find Wolff Freres, A Man’s Cologne. Luckily, we had an old Esquire 35th Anniversary edition from October of 1968, and that magazine had an image of the bottle in an advertisement. But we wondered what happened to the cologne and theMORE HERE
Would you like to buy some meters from this maid? You bet! She is Leah the meter maid from the Hialeah Meter Company in Hialeah, Florida, and boy does she have some light-you-up curves. Have a mascot. It’s fun, and makes your product memorable.MORE HERE
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – In the latter half of the 20th century, the New York region became the hub of a far-reaching empire of cosmetics and cosmetics and beauty products. But by the end of the 20th century, many brands and companies, large and small, had disappeared, either neglected by parentMORE HERE
Shame on Northwest’s management for allowing its identity to be destroyed by Delta. Not only is a great bit of American history going to be lost, unnecessarily, but a large amount of shareholder value, in the Northwest identity, is going to be lost. This is not an issue of empty-but-funMORE HERE