In slowdowns of years past, many retailers owned their own charge card portfolio. That meant something powerful. A retailer could talk directly to its consumers, without someone like GE as an intermediary, and run specials, reduce financing or in general juke up sales. This option has gone from most retailers.MORE HERE
If you are in any way connected to the business of the Yellow Pages anywhere in America, we had a frightening thing happen in my neighborhood this week. This Saturday, a white van drove around the neighborhood very slowly and began dropping things on stoops. The white van was droppingMORE HERE
Check out this clip to see how the kimono has returned to Japan. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories.MORE HERE
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