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BrandlandUSA
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BrandlandUSA.com is the home of America's best-loved legacy brands. The news and advice site to promote and preserve historic brand names, by writer and editor Garland Pollard.
- Added on: Dec 20th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Garland Pollard
- Listed in: Marketing Economic
- Tags: design Branding Advertising trademark brand intellectual property
Recent Posts
Some Russell Richards BBQ Sauce
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 bran...
New Folgers “Peter” Commercial In Heavy Rotation
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...
The Future of NBC Radio in a Comcast Universe
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 di...
California Artist (and Beverly Hillbillies Director) Richard Whorf
There is one person we need to know more about; it is Richard Whorf (1906-1966), the sometime actor who was director of the Beverly Hillbillies. Whorf was also a dancer, a designer, a producer and a writer. Whorf has a whole world view that we rathe...
Cory Doctorow and the Fictional Company Kodacell
Want to read what happens to the merged company Kodak and Duracell, better known as Kodacell? This Thanksgiving, go out and read Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a tale of the future where everything is so cheap to make that all the legacy companies hav...
Quikrete Is the Great D.I.Y. Concrete and Sand Brand
The idea behind a brand is to turn a commodity into a special thing. And what is more commodity than concrete; concrete is cement and sand, right? Such was the genius of Gene Winchester, who created Quikrete brand concrete mix in 1952 in Columbus, Oh...
