Parsad Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Always interesting to see what brands or businesses have become extinguished, while some remain within cult-like status among small groups. Cheers! http://money.msn.com/investment-advice/10-brand-names-gone-but-not-forgotten-thestreet.aspx?cp-documentid=6846398 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Perhaps the saddest thing for me is that I was familiar with each of those brands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Perhaps the saddest thing for me is that I was familiar with each of those brands. Me too! Maybe that's why I posted it. ;D Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFHWatcher Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Of course you're familiar with them, they were brands. Are you two familiar with Blackberry too? <That was for Uccmal ;) > 5 year BB user just switched to iPhone 4S and very happy. I had to use my brothers Blackberry for Google Maps yesterday. I almost threw the BB out the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 5 year BB user just switched to iPhone 4S and very happy. I had to use my brothers Blackberry for Google Maps yesterday. I almost threw the BB out the window. Welcome to 2011 FFHWatcher! ;D It's nice when an electronic appliance actually works exactly the way the user would like it to. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourkid8 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 We have a family business in east Africa and I have to go back home a couple of times a year and Woolworth's is thriving over there! S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShahKhezri Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Woolworth's has a great offering in S.Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Of course you're familiar with them, they were brands. Are you two familiar with Blackberry too? <That was for Uccmal ;) > 5 year BB user just switched to iPhone 4S and very happy. I had to use my brothers Blackberry for Google Maps yesterday. I almost threw the BB out the window. Now, now, dont feed the trolls please :P Did your 4s run out of juice, just when you needed it? Me and my Ipad2 have been inseparable for weeks now. So far I have used it as a GPS, e-mail, e-reader, Video player for my daughter, skyping a pal in Manilla, checking and trading stocks, typing this, stargazing in real time, reading dozens of financial rpts... But Aapl is still too high a price for me. Re: brands - those in Canada might recall Kresge's - k-mart, eatons, robinsons, sam the record man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: brands - those in Canada might recall Kresge's - k-mart, eatons, robinsons, sam the record man. I worked at Kresge's in Hamilton until it closed (4 years part time during high school), there were 4 people who had spent more than 30 years working there. Woolworth's was the evil empire around the corner. I miss Chiclets. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 My dad used to have cases of Tab stacked in the garage that he had bought at some warehouse store. I can still remember that bitter, horrible taste, but I always liked it because of him. People used to kind of say back in the day that Tab was essentially diet Coke - that is, until real Diet Coke came out and everyone realized how wrong they had been! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Augustabound, Weredating ourselves a little. When I had to do Christmas shopping as a teen I would do a circuit of Eatons, Robinsons, woolworths, and Kresge, all around King and James area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 One of those great childhood memories for me is being at my Grandparents, my Aunt had a Ford Pinto, playing ABBA on the 8 track and she drank Tab. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 One of those great childhood memories for me is being at my Grandparents, my Aunt had a Ford Pinto, playing ABBA on the 8 track and she drank Tab. ;D You haven't lived until you've driven around in a Cadillac with the Star Wars soundtrack playing on the 8 track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onyx1 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 One of those great childhood memories for me is being at my Grandparents, my Aunt had a Ford Pinto, playing ABBA on the 8 track and she drank Tab. ;D You haven't lived until you've driven around in a Cadillac with the Star Wars soundtrack playing on the 8 track. Yes. :D And no greater test of skill than trying to eat candy buttons while ridng a Schwinn Stingray! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I remember candy buttons. :D I also remember banana seats for bikes. I forgot to mention, Grandpa's '76 Plymouth Fury was next to my Aunt's car and it had a case of Molson 50 in the trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone19 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I think it was Labatt 50.It was right beside the Cinci and the Red Cap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I think it was Labatt 50.It was right beside the Cinci and the Red Cap Right you are. I can still see the green box sitting in the basement next to the fridge they got when they bought the house in 1946. Of course, it was replaced with an avacado green fridge and stove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ajc Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 This tidbit from a recent Joyful Investor post was sort of mind-blowing to me. Here's the excerpt: "Proctor & Gamble (P&G) once commercialised two big American brands of toilet paper. Charmin was the market leader and White Cloud ranked seventh. In 1992, P&G stopped selling White Cloud to concentrate its marketing efforts on Charmin. Its ownership of the White Cloud brand was allowed to lapse and White Cloud was reregistered by a company called Paper Partners. Paper Partners (renamed White Cloud Marketing) gave the exclusive US license of White Cloud to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in exchange for a royalty. Simultaneously, it gave exclusive manufacturing rights to Scott Paper of Canada (now Kruger Products). Walmart marketed White Cloud as its premium own-label brand and sales reached $600 million in 2008. In 2012, White Cloud was voted the best toilet paper in a US Consumer Report survey. Today the brand's sales, which include tissues, wipes and nappies, top $1 billion. Charmin continues to be the best-selling toilet paper in America, but the fact that Walmart was willing to pay a royalty to use the White Cloud brand illustrates the value of its name." That just struck me as being one hell of a clever way to make money. He also goes on to mention Himmel Brands of Florida, who I think have managed to do something similar with a number of neglected names over the years. Anyway... it kind of got me wondering exactly how many well-known, discontinued brands there must be globally that could generate royalties in the same way White Cloud was able to. Asset-light and reasonably profitable, it just seems like a pretty good niche to be operating in. Provided of course, that you have the ability and knowledge to get good brands for free or even for a small amount relative to the recognition that they have been able to generate over the course of their commercial histories. (From http://thejoyfulinvestor.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/thevalue-of-brands-andpz-cussons-plc.html) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 http://www.economist.com/news/business/21600692-reviving-old-brands-sometimes-makes-more-sense-creating-new-ones-hidden-gems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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