We were fascinated reading about Archeophone Records, a company out of Illinois that has rescued old sound recordings and re-released them. It’s a fascinating niche, especially since they have found old music from wax cylinders and re-issued them. The Wall Street Journal featured their compilation of William Howard Taft andMORE HERE
In this time when the market is down, we wonder what the late Charles Engelhard would have thought? Gold, gold, gold. Oh, and platinum, platinum, platinum. Can’t be sure about that, because he’s gone. But we guess Goldfinger would be sitting happily. Read our posts on why BASF should notMORE HERE
Here, a Coca-Cola soda fountain at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville. It is a copy of the one that went on the Space Shuttle, in the Hall of Fame’s Space Shuttle Gallery. Visit our main website, www.brandlandusa.com Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
The Marcel Rochas fashion brand will return as ready to wear, and not just as a perfume. Read our post on Rochas at our main website at www.brandlandUSA.com. You can also read about other historic perfume brands, like Schiaparelli, at our story Trip through Historic Perfumes.MORE HERE
Rochas Fashion Brand returns PARIS – Proctor & Gamble shut down the Rochas fashion house two years ago after over 80 years in existence. However, The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has signed the Italian company Gibo Co. SpA to make a line of clothes under the brand. TheMORE HERE
The new edition of the FAO Schwarz catalog is out. Read our analysis of the revived FAO brand at the post on our new website. It’s called Muppetational FAO Schwarz Catalog. Visit our main site for all the posts atwww.brandlandUSA.com Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
NEW YORK – The FAO catalog is out. Christmas is coming. Sure as the turn of leaves along the Taconic Parkway, the iconic New York toy retailer FAO Schwarz has released its fall offerings, this year with the Muppets on the cover. No matter the misery on Wall Street, atMORE HERE
LONDON – Interbrand, the brand consultancy, has named Leslie Butterfield as group chief strategy officer. “We are experiencing a growing need for our clients to assess how brand drives demand and an ever increasing desire to really understand Brand ROI. It doesn’t matter if it’s a new identity, retail environmentsMORE HERE
Who nailed the right market? We have to give the “predicted it” prize to Kool-Aid. We noticed this Parade Magazine ad last April, and hadn’t realized how on target the marketing is. Today, the drink, and its namesake Spokespitcher, are about as well known as any national brand. But withMORE HERE
At BrandlandUSA, we love to look at great American brands. Some of our most popular stories on old American brand names, including Toni, Hydrox, Cub Cadet, Royster Fertilizer, Carroll Reed and H.J. Stotter. What ever happened to the Toni Twins? Hydrox Cookies have returned Goodbye Future Levittowns Saluting the InternationalMORE HERE