GLENDALE, Calif. – The old joke about IHOP not being international is long over, and the chain is busily expanding overseas. Dine Brands International will open new locations in the state of Ontario, Canada. The expansions are through Kailash Kasal’s K2 Group, a Toronto-based investment company. A minimum of fiveMORE HERE
NEW YORK – A new set of Topps Allen & Ginter trading cards is out. The success of the series reveals one of the more unlikely reinventions of brands, namely Allen and Ginter. The name is a forgotten tobacco brand heretofore only known to other card collectors and historians. ItMORE HERE
NEW YORK – Trusted Media Brands, the parent company of the original 2.0 content company Reader’s Digest, has acquired Jukin Media, the streaming and user video content company with aggregation sites that include FailArmy, People Are Awesome, The Pet Collective, and WeatherSpy. Other than Reader’s Digest, Trusted Media owns theMORE HERE
PLANO, Texas – Fieldcrest, the former house brand of the retired Chicago department store Marshall Field’s, is now a featured brand at JCPenney. This spring, JCPenney added the brand to its merchandise portfolio. Another 2021 addition is the Loom + Forge decorating brand, giving the retailer a product that evokesMORE HERE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Newport Beach, Calif.-based candy maker LeafBrands, seller of the sandwich cookie Hydrox, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to step in to investigate alleged anti-competitive pressure from competitor Mondelez International, maker of Oreo cookies. Leaf Brands, through the firm MoginRubin LLP, has asked the FTC toMORE HERE
CHICAGO – Occasionally, the family of Nabisco brands allows one of its step-children to appear without the familiar Nabisco red shield on the front. This is the recent case with the Mondelez International (NSDQ: MDLZ) product, the Triscuit cracker. Current packaging for the cracker looks much more like a startupMORE HERE
HONG KONG – Samsonite International S.A. (SEHK: 1910), the world’s best known luggage company, will establish its brand sourcing and development hub in Singapore. Samsonite will use the hub to manage sourcing for Asia and the Middle East, while also supporting sourcing for North America and Latin America. Samsonite’s Asia regionalMORE HERE
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Stop, Drop and Roll. Wonder Bread and Old Spice are at it again for an another Dodge ad parody from “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” which marks its official 15th anniversary this week from Sony. Dodge, a unit global automaker Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), isMORE HERE
A roundup of children’s brands in the news today: GOSHEN, N.Y. – A new Legoland Hotel opened Friday, Aug. 6 in New York state, to go with a newly opened Legoland. The hotel has seven themed lands, and is the only Lego-themed hotel in the northeast. The guest rooms andMORE HERE
QUINCY, Ill. – One of the best known, but forgotten, kitchen cleaners of the 20th century is Bab-O. Today, the brand is a trademark and product of, and a perfect complement to, the cleaning products of the family owned Fitzpatrick Brothers of Quincy, Illinois. Their operating manifesto? A business withMORE HERE