We came across this video of the lighting of the Neiman Marcus store in Downtown Dallas. Who says great Christmas traditions and strong department store brands are no longer? They just need to go to Dallas, and visit Neiman Marcus. By the way, the beginning of the second verse, “GodMORE HERE
Read our post on what has happened to Life Savers. Thankfully, you can still buy a Sweet Storybook this Christmas. And Pep-o-Mint is still around.MORE HERE
WINTER HAVEN – Last weekend, the legendary theme park Cypress Gardens closed for four months while management said it would refocus on its water park and historic garden. In the process, it would drop its roller coasters and rides. This temporary shut down is not the first closure for theMORE HERE
At Christmas, everyone needs boxes and tins. In fact, all through the year, we need storage. Yet we throw out un-useful packaging boxes that have to be recycled. And then we buy more boxes and containers for packaging. Recycling is expensive, and it uses energy and produces waste during collectionMORE HERE
We had a request from a BrandlandUSA reader to find Wolff Freres, A Man’s Cologne. Luckily, we had an old Esquire 35th Anniversary edition from October of 1968, and that magazine had an image of the bottle in an advertisement. But we wondered what happened to the cologne and theMORE HERE
Great nostalgic idea for a retailer or mall operator to build some identity and uniqueness during Christmas. How about giving away a ride to customers. It’s from the website Kiddie Ride USA. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com Ideas? E-mail editor Garland PollardMORE 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
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
SARASOTA – While the queen isn’t around anymore, her name is still standing guard at her castle. We are talking, of course, about Leona Helmsley, who achieved a Paris Hilton-amount of fame in the 1980s for not only her travails, but her role as the woman who wouldn’t let anythingMORE HERE
A reader writes: “I remember Fancy Fruit Life Savers being my favorites as a boy and I cannot seem to find them anywhere … Discontinued? What’s the story? I’ve seen Tropical Fruits available but rarely … Hmmm” Yes, you are not imagining things, dear BrandlandUSA Reader. Life Savers are a decliningMORE HERE