MIAMI – The Miami shirt maker Ramon Puig Guayaberas “La Casa de la Guayabera,” has reopened after closing during the Covid pandemic. The 77-year-old brand, located on historic Eighth Street, or “Calle Ocho”, closed in August 2020, but has reopened on the same street. The guayabera is a button downMORE HERE
Navistar has its beginning with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, founded by Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus McCormick’s father Robert McCormick began work on a reaper in 1809 at his Virginia farm, Walnut Grove. MORE HERE
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — In the wake of the introduction of a newly updated 2022 Outlander, Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. reported second quarter sales of 25,146, a 106% increase compared with the second quarter of 2020. The company, which in recent decades has not had good press from the auto media, isMORE HERE
STAMFORD, Conn., – A new Yellow Tail wine will launch in the U.S. this month. The new Yellow Tail Pure Bright is 85 calories or less. It’s a lower calorie, lower alcohol wine from a major wine brand sold at less than $7 a bottle. It’s available in Sauvignon Blanc,MORE HERE
It’s summer. Time to think about great brands of frozen drinks. The history of the frozen ice drink goes back to Roman times or before. But the ubiquitous frozen drink, on every corner, dates from the mid 1960s, and the invention of the ICEE machine. While the ICEE was theMORE HERE
LONDON – TBWA London has tapped Larissa Vince as the agency’s new CEO. CEO Sara Tate will leave the agency at the end of the summer to become a consultant and leadership coach. Vince worked for nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, latterly as Managing Director where she was responsibleMORE HERE
The new line is called Kimberly Whitman for Antonio Melani; the company is calling it a new “limited-edition capsule collection” that is one of developed in collaboration with celebrated lifestyle and entertaining expert and author, Kimberly Whitman.MORE HERE
NASHVILLE – Workwear Outfitters, formerly known as VF Workwear, is now part of Redwood Capital Investments LLC. Workwear Outfitters is a supplier of work apparel and footwear employing more than 5,800 people in facilities spanning the globe. Brands under the Workwear Outfitters umbrella include Red Kap (c. 1923), Bulwark (1990), andMORE HERE
PHILADELPHIA – To celebrate its centennial, Pep Boys will launch a promotional road trip that will, among other things, emphasize its new role as a repair shop, and not a parts retailer. But it seems that their founding mascots, Manny, Moe and Jack, might not be along for the ride.MORE HERE
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania will drop the name of Annenberg from its Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, founded in 1971. The performing arts center was named for the late Walter Annenberg (1908-2002), the publisher of TV Guide, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Seventeen magazine. The Annenberg family wasMORE HERE