Today Show: Donny Wears Hai Karate
The Today Show recently featured the effort to bring back old brands, including the Hydrox cookie. The big question. Does Donny Deutsch actually wear Hai Karate... Read more.
Bonwit Teller Said to Return
CHICAGO – The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Bonwit Teller will be coming back. It will come back as a boutique, now that revitalization company River Wes... Read more.
Stumped: Village Inn Pizza, Norfolk’s Janaf
Our memory of this place is totally gone. But apparently there was a Village Inn Pizza chain that had arcades. It was a big enough operation that individual fra... Read more.
Legendary Charity Brands: Remembering Community Chest
The excellent blog The Agitator, for non-profits, had a great post on bringing old charity brands back to life. Fascinating. Here at BrandlandUSA, we always MIS... Read more.
Missing CBS TV’s In the News
In the 1960s and 70s, television provided hours of entertaining but educational fare for kids. Things like ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock. The best of the best wa... Read more.
Ten Brands With Nine Lives: Fox News to Mini
The idea of a brand-life cycle is (mostly) flat-out wrong. Certainly, brands have phases and iterations, but the wholesale jettisoning of old brands by large co... Read more.
Pneumatic Airline Music, Greatly Missed
Miss those pneumatic airline audio programs? There was a time not so long ago when airline music and audio came from what were basically stethoscopes. It was th... Read more.
Great Products: Zenith Trans-Oceanic. Oh, and Bring Back the Zenith Man
We are gloomy and cry when thinking about American manufacturing and electronics. But it is always instructive to look back. One top product electronics product... Read more.
Whidden’s Sea Food Market In Boca Grande, Florida
A great brand can be a regional brand.And it does not have to be fancy or sophisticated. Ice. Beverages. Gas. What else do you need? It can be a ship’s st... Read more.
Food City Brings Back Regional Bread Brand Kern’s
BrandlandUSA reader and freelance writer Lee Gimpel informs us that the Abingdon, Virginia grocery chain Food City has brought back some regional grocery brands... Read more.