Great nostalgic idea for a retailer or mall operator to build some identity and uniqueness during Christmas. How about giving away a ride to customers. It’s from the website Kiddie Ride USA. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com Ideas? E-mail editor Garland PollardMORE HERE
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA – Among the greatest of the American grocery brand names is Clabber Girl. Iconic Clabber Girl was born when a Terre Haute, Indiana wholesale company named Hulman Brothers added its own brand of baking powder. They called it Clabber, which is apparently a word for sour milk.MORE HERE
JAMAICA, NY – The recent renovation of the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center, now known as T5, was a true passing of the torch, as Ruth Richter Holden, daughter of TWA co-founder Paul Richter, flew her restored Lockheed Electra into JFK Airport for the dedication ceremony. Ruth Richter Holden, quiteMORE HERE
What happens when your brokerage brand is tarnished? Read our post on the future of Wachovia Securities, A.G. Edwards and Wheat First and Butcher & Singer. Oddly, Butcher & Singer, the Main Line Philadelphia brokerage that merged with Wheat First, has resurfaced as a brand. It will now be aMORE HERE
There is something so clinical about an RV. It takes all the 1920s Boy Scout aspect out of the camping, and that’s no fun. In addition, with most travel trailers (those are the RVs that need to be pulled), they are large, bulky and very ugly. Thankfully, you can stillMORE HERE
In The Wall Street Journal this morning, in an ad for Wachovia’s merger with Wells Fargo, the A.G. Edwards logo is prominently displayed as an equal to Wachovia. The ad is called “The Wisdom of Age. The Strength of Experience.” It cites Wachovia and A.G. Edwards’ combined 120 years ofMORE HERE
We are getting requests. Bring it back!Read more at our post entitled: Donny Deutsch likes Hai Karate? (the adman turned TV host talking about old brands on the Today Show) Hai Karate Now on BrandlandUSA’s Top 100 Brands to Bring Back list. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com Questions? Email editorMORE HERE
Now on our Top 100 List If you want to see how much America has lost its innocence, one need only look at the Pfizer Company and its most advertised products. In the 1960s, one of Pfizer’s best known advertised products was the cologne Hai Karate, made by Pfizer’s Leeming/PacquinMORE HERE
Cousins to Vienna Sausages, but darker? Try some Prairie Belt Smoked Sausage! In case you didn’t know or can’t read, the serving suggestion on the front shows that the sausages are best eaten on a plate, stacked. Thank you for that. The sausage was distributed by Castleberry’s Food Company fromMORE HERE
We love the new Verdier, created by Canadian industrial designer Alexander Verdier. It’s a non-VW Microbus, all solar, with every sort of whiz bang. Totally off grid, except that it runs on a bit of good ole petrol, as it’s a hybrid. The only thing not granola about the VerdierMORE HERE