NEW YORK – Bazooka Gum is now 75 years old. The bubble gum brand, best known for dry joke comics and a sort of hard initial chew that eventually satisfies, is now its own company. The brand debuted in 1947, a product of the Brooklyn gum company Topps. It wasMORE HERE
To see how China operates in the world, take a look at the return of the once-English MG automobile to Europe. The MG brand, now under Chinese ownership, dates from 1924. The initials are said to stand for Morris Garages. Entrepreneur William Morris was the Henry Ford of England; TheMORE HERE
This June, the cable television network Reelz revived the concept of a live police show when it launched On Patrol: Live. But a suit filed in New York City this week claimed said that new show was a copy of A+E’s canceled Live PD. A&E had canceled Live PD inMORE HERE
Igloo is the original plastic cooler. So many of its products became synonymous with boating and summer that for generations, Igloo coolers were, and are, props in the American landscape. The Igloo dates from 1947. MORE HERE
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – Many well-known brand leaders in food categories have degraded ingredients and changed formulas, leaving openings for newcomers. Enter Good Culture cottage cheese. For cottage cheese fans, store offerings in recent decades had become cheapened; not only dripping in a goop of watery liquid, but bland and milky.MORE 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
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
KANSAS CITY – While Hallmark has issued more than 250 new Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments during their annual Keepsake Ornament Premiere promotion that began July 10, 2021, including a 40th Anniversary MTV logo, it appears that Golden Girl Blanche Devereaux might be a 2021 Christmas hot number. Two days in, it alreadyMORE HERE
The chain, which had hundreds of stores nationwide, was purchased by Mrs. Paul’s, and later sold. It then went Chapter 11, though the Ohio stores survived. This often happens when franchise chains collapse; individual franchisees continue to use the name, without any support. MORE HERE
May 3, CBS is bringing back movies. Precisely CBS Sunday Night at the Movies. CBS announced plans to bring back Sunday movies featuring five films from their sister Paramount Pictures library. They include Forrest Gump, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,MORE HERE