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
In retail, you don’t have to have expensive products to make your brand unique. Very often, a recasting of something boring and conventional that you sell can make your brand unique. This principal applies most often with food. These are products that are made with everyday things, but branded andMORE HERE
One of the biggest search items for BrandlandUSA is the cold cream from Dorothy Gray called Satura. Dorothy Gray was one of the biggest cosmetic brands of the mid 20th century. Read our post on the history of Dorothy Gray in our post on Remembering Dorothy Gray. Sadly, since ourMORE HERE
Everyone in the whole entire world, except the pitiful board at General Motors, has been wondering for at least the last year or two how Rick Wagoner still has a job. But we were completely stunned at another figure connected to the Wagoner tenure. The Wall Street Journal reported todayMORE HERE
There is a long list of dead logos from corporate redesigns, buyouts and design updates. Check out this graveyard of dead logos on the website www.logorip.com. They have an online “Book of Condolences” for things like: More on logos? Read the End of Corporate Design.MORE HERE
We’ve got some wacky brand extensions on our main website. You could: Buy a General Motors licensed kit to turn a Saturn into an Oldsmobile Hire a crew from Sears to do an not-so-extreme makeover of your house Buy a Columbia MP3 Machine from Sony Get news from the EIBMORE HERE