Need to feel better when you travel? The name synonymous with seasickness was Mothersill’s, first registered as a trademark in 1926. Made by the Mothersill Remedy Company of Montreal and New York, it was first Mothersill’s Seasick Remedy. Somehow, the brand’s marketing did not translate to the jet era, andMORE HERE
NEW YORK A few weeks ago, Peggy Noonan wrote in her weekly Wall Street Journal column about the importance of seeing Bergdorf Goodman, and how it cheered her. We should definitely thank ourselves for making it through the year. And we should be thankful that Bergdorf’s is still there. (Above,MORE HERE
MINNEAPOLIS –It may not be the ideal way for a great brand to come back from the dead, but it works. Polaroid, founded in 1937 and one of the great 20th century brands, has been reinvented. The company went bankrupt in 2001, and exited the production of its instant filmMORE HERE
As far as we know it isn’t real (only a poster by the funky Charlottesville artist), but we sure would like some. He’s at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville. That’s McGuffey Reader, McGuffey, another great old American brand. See www.russellrichards.comMORE HERE
ORRVILLE, Ohio – Peter is officially home again. In his last Christmas trip home during the Roaring Reagan year of 1986, Peter was dropped off in an old VW bug in a Norwegian sweater. When he got home to his nice mansion in the early morning, he went into theMORE HERE
The Squibb brand could have survived as a toothbrush. BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.MORE HERE
Do you? Read about Stotter and how it could be the next Tervis Tumbler on our main site, at BrandlandUSA.com, the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.MORE HERE
You are looking at an old Science Reasearch Associates label. SRA, now part of McGraw Hill, was part of IBM.MORE HERE
Brand extension goes too far, or merges the colors of Deere with iconography of Jeep on a wheelbarrow. Don’t get it? Is this authorized? BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Visit his personal website at GarlandPollard.comMORE HERE
With GE’s pending sale of NBC Universal to Comcast, we look back at the pieces of NBC and RCA that still survive. GE purchased NBC’s parent company RCA in 1986; it actually reacquired it, as it was once the same company. GE quickly dismantled the company. RCA’s consumer television business,MORE HERE