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Corporations & Brands

apparel automobiles banks & finance electronics & internet fast & slow dining food brands fuel & power grocery chains heavy industry insurance & credit lodging media & entertainment miscellaneous retail television & radio networks transportation utilities

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Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. Business Leaders & Corporations Pages

'Rat Race' Film Festival Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Corporations vs. America
Working Minds / Corporations vs. America / Books On The Subject

Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Business & Economic Monopolies
Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Big Pharma (-ceuticals)

	"The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How To Build A Product or Service Into A World-Class Brand" [1998] by Al & Laura Ries Harper 9x7¼ pb [9/2002] for $12.91 HarperCollins 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/dozens used
	"The Hero and The Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through The Power of Archetypes" [2001] by Margaret Mark & Carol S. Pearson McGraw-Hill 8¾x5½ pb [9/2002] out of print/used McGraw-Hill 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $19.04
	"Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood To Dell" [2001] by Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2001] for $29.16
	"No Logo: Taking Aim At The Brand Bullies - 10th Anniversary Edition With A New Introduction By The Author" [orig 2000] by Naomi Klein Kindle Edition from Picador [11/2009] for $9.99 Macmillan/Picador 8½x5½ pb [11/2009] for $10.88 Macmillan/Picador hardcover [1/2000] out of print/many used
	"BrandWashed: Why The Shopper Matters More Than What You're Selling" [2011] by Sarah A. O'Leary CreateSpace pb [8/2011] for $15.08
	"Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use To Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us To Buy" [2011] by Martin Lindstrom Crown Business 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2011] for $14.37

fast & slow dining

Spirit of America Bookstore's American Roadside Diners Page

C.K.E. Restaurants Holdings, Inc. [est. 1966] is owned by Roark Capital Group [est. 2001]
purchased 1997: Hardee's
purchased 3/2002: Green Burrito/Red Burrito
Carl's Jr. [est. 1966] was purchased 11/2013 for approx $1.7B

Focus Brands [] is owned by Roark Capital Group [est. 2001]
purchased 12/2001: Carvel Ice Cream [est. 1929]
purchased 2004 for $30.3M: Cinnabon baked goods [est. 1985]
purchased 2005: McAlister's Deli [est. 1989]
purchased 11/2006: Schlotzsky's [est. 1971]
purchased 8/2007: Moe's Southwest Grill [est. 2000]
purchased 11/2010: Auntie Anne's Pretzels [est. 1988]
purchased 8/2018: Jamba Juice [chain est. 1990]

Inspire Brands [renamed 2018] is owned by Roark Capital Group [est. 2001]
purchased 7/2011 for $130M in cash: Arby's Restaurant Group
purchased 2/2018 for $2.4B & debt: Buffalo Wild Wings & Rusty Taco
purchased 12/2018 for $2.3B: Sonic Drive-In [est. 1953] based in Oklahoma City

Applebee's Grill + Bar [chain est. 1980]

Bruegger’s Bagels [est.1983] operates more than 280 bakeries in 26 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada

Charley's Grilled Subs & Philly Cheesesteak [chain est. 1986] - almost 600 locations in 45 states and 19 countries

Chipotle Mexican Grill fast casual food [chain est. 1993]

Dairy Queen [chain est. 1940]

Darden Restaurants, Inc. is headquartered in Orlando, Florida
http://www.darden.com/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darden_Restaurants

William 'Bill' Darden [1919-94] opened his first restaurant, The Green Frog [1938-81], in Waycross, Georgia USA   ; he opened the first Red Lobster restaurant in Lakeland, Florida in 1968; Darden sold the company to food giant General Mills in 1968; General Mills expanded Red Lobster into a chain of almost 400 locations by 1985; franchise York Steak House English-themed steak & chop restaurants launched in the 1970s, but failed (one independent location still exists); General Mills opened the first Olive Garden concept restaurant in Orlando, Florida in 1982 and by 1989 had opened 145 restaurants; China Coast was launched in 1990 and eventually expanded to some 50 restaurants, but sales were lackluster and by the end of 1995, the chain was shuttered; General Mills decided in 1995 to spin off its restaurant chains to focus on consumer food products; the new company was named Darden Restaurants.

Red Lobster full-service restaurants [chain est. 1968] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lobster
defunct York Steak House cafeteria-style restaurants [1966-89] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Steak_House
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen full-service restaurants [est. 1982] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Garden
defunct China Coast restaurants [1990-95] never turned a profit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Coast
LongHorn Steakhouse [est. 1981] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LongHorn_Steakhouse
Yard House sports bar [chain est. 1996] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_House
Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen [est. 1979, renamed 2015] chain based in Irving, Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar%27s_Scratch_Kitchen
  The Capital Grille upscale steakhouses [est. 1990] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Grille
Seasons 52 fresh grill and wine bar [est. 2003] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasons_52
Bahama Breeze Island Grille [est. 1996] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahama_Breeze
Eddie V's Prime Seafood [est. 2000] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_V%27s
spinoff restaurant The Capital Burger opened in Washington, DC in 3/2018 and in Reston, Virginia in 1/2020
  Ruth’s Chris Steak House [est. 1927, renamed 1976] purchased by Darden for $715 million 5/2023
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%E2%80%99s_Chris_Steak_House

Frost Gelato Shoppe [chain]

I.H.O.P. and new I.H.O.P. at Home grocery brand
International House of Pancakes decided to run a campaign in Summer 2018 to promote their existing line of hamburgers, adding eight fancy new burgers; the gimmick
was calling themselves 'I.H.O.b.' by flipping the 'p' upside down; the campaign caused lots of attention, with several other fast food chains quickly mocking the logo change.

Kelly's Cajun Grill - World Famous Bourbon Chicken [chain est. 1991]

Spirit of America Bookstore's McDonald's, Inc. [est. 1948] Page

Nothing But Noodles {7 locations} in Alabama & North Carolina (2017)

Orange Julius [chain est. 1926]

Original Pancake House [chain est. 1953] is based in Portland, Oregon

Panda Express [chain est. 1983]

Pei Wei Asian Eatery [chain]

Pretzel Maker [chain est. 1991]

Spirit of America Bookstore's Starbucks Corp. [est. 1971] Page

the first Taco Bell opened in March 1962 in Downey, California

Villa Italian Kitchen [chain est. 1964]

Wetzel's Pretzels [chain est. 1994]

food brands

family-owned Carl Buddig & Company [est. 1943] and Old Wisconsin Sausage [est. 1942]
http://www.buddig.com/ + http://www.oldwisconsin.com/

   
Spirit of America Bookstore's Coca-Cola® [est. 1886] Page
Coca-Cola (based in Atlanta): Coke, Dasani, Fanta, Fresca, Honest Tea, Mello Yellow, Minute Maid orange juice, Odwalla,
Powerade Zero, Simply Orange, SmartWater, Sprite, Tab, VitaminWater

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream [est. 1928]

privately-owned Hostess Brands shut down the bakeries business 11/16/2012, blaming unions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Brands

            
Announced 8/2011: Kraft Foods is splitting the company into two entities, with one being the candy products
and the other including the food & food service lines.

Kraft Heinz (headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh): A.1. Sauce, Baker's Chocolate, Boca Burger, Breakstone's, Capri Sun, Classico, Claussen, Cracker Barrel, Crystal Light, Grey Poupon, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Lea & Perrins, Lunchables, Maxwell House, Mio, Miracle Whip, Mr. Yoshida's, Nancy's, Ore Ida, Bagel Bites, Original Juice Co., Orlando, Oscar Mayer, P3, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Primal Kitchen, PurePet, Quero, Shake 'n Bake, Smart Ones, Twisted Ranch, Velveeta, Weight Watchers

Mars, Inc. candy & food conglomerate [est. 1922] based in McLean, Virginia
Edge Division nutrition brands include CocoaVia™ dietary supplement & foodspring®; Food Division brands; Petcare Division; Wrigley Division snacks brands include 5™ chewing gum [est. 2007], Altoids® Peppermint tins [est. 1780], American Heritage® Chocolate [est. 2006], Amicelli™ chocolate wafer roll, Balisto® Bar, Big Red® cinnamon gum [est. 1987], Bounty coconut/chocolate bar, Celebrations chocolate [est. 1997], Combos® baked snacks, Doublemint® gum [est. in 1914], Dove® ice cream & candy, Eclipse® sugar-free gum & mints, Ethel M® chocolates [est. 1981], Extra sugarfree gum [est. 1984], Freedent chewing gum [est. 1975], Galaxy® chocolate [est. 1960], GoodnessKnows® bite-sized snack squares, Hubba Bubba® bubble gum, Juicy Fruit® chewing gum, Life Savers® candies [est. 1912], M&Ms® candy [est. 1941], Maltesers® honeycomb crisp candy [est. 1936], Mars® bar [est. 1932], Milky Way® malted chocolate candy [est. 1923], Orbit sugarfree gum [est. 1899], Skittles® chewy candies, Snickers® bars [est. 1930] - the world's best-selling candy bar, Wrigley's Spearmint™ chewing gum [est 1893], Starburst Fruit Chews, 3 Musketeers® Bar [est. 1932], Twix® Caramel Cookie Bar [est. 1979], Wrigley's Winterfresh® chewing gum [est. 1994]

                                    
O.D. McKee and his wife Ruth began a baking business in the 1930s, with several geographic moves and name changes; the company was renamed McKee Foods Corp.
in 1957. The Little Debbie brand began in 1960, named for a granddaughter. McKee Foods purchased the Drake's brand from bankrupt Hostess Foods in 2013.
official company website • company entry at Wikipedia
Little Debbie [est. 1960] • Sunbelt Bakery [est. 1964] • Drake's Cakes [est. 1896]

   
Spirit of America Bookstore's PepsiCo, Inc. [est. 1898] Page
PepsiCo (headquartered in New York): 7up soda pop, Aquafina, Brisk, Cheetos, Doritos, Fritos, Gatorade, Lay's, Lipton (with Unilever), Mirinda, Mountain Dew,
müller, Naked Juice, Pepsi soft drinks, Quaker Oats, Ruffles, Sabra, Sierra Mist, Stacy's, some bottled Starbucks products, Tostitos, Tropicana

Lipton Tea = www.LiptonT.com

"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee®"

J.M. Smucker Co. (based in Ohio): 1850 Folgers, Café Bustelo, Café Pilon, Dunkin' K-Cups, Folgers, Medaglia D'Oro, Carnation, Crosse & Blackwell, Dickinson's, Double Fruit, Eagle Brand, Golden Temple, Jif peanut butter, Knott's Berry Farm, Laura Scudder's, Sahale Snacks, Santa Cruz Organic, Smucker's Uncrustables, Smucker's jams & jellies, 9Lives cat food, Gravy Train dog food, Kibbles 'n Bits, Meow Mix cat food, Milk-Bone dog food, Milo's Kitchen, Nature's Recipe, Pup-Peroni, Rachael Ray Nutrish, Snausages

l o d g i n g

"A History of Howard Johnson's" [] by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

heavy industry

Boeing

Douglas Aircraft

Lockheed Martin

Hughes Aircraft

U.S. Steel

Spirit of America Bookstore's Tractors & Farm Equipment Page

transportation
Only four airline giants control 80% of U.S. domestic seats: American, Delta, Southwest, and United;
the airline industry hauled off $33B in profits in 2015, nearly 90% over the prior year.

Spirit of America Bookstore's American Railroads Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's American Shortline Railroads Page

u t i l i t i e s
October 2020: "AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon take very different approaches to 5G. To make a long story short, AT&T 5G right now appears to be essentially worthless.
T-Mobile 5G can be a big boost over 4G, but its speeds are only what we’d expect from a good 4G network - it isn’t a new experience. Verizon’s 5G is often mind-blowing,
but very difficult to find." — Sascha Segan at PC Magazine

T-Mobile

automobiles

Spirit of America / Roadside America Page / Vintage Autos Section

Spirit of America / Roadside America Page / Motorcycles Section

Spirit of America's Automobile Brands Nostalgia Page

media & entertainment

Kodak announced in January 2012 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

"Newspaperman: Inside The News Business At The Wall Street Journal" [2011] by Warren H. Phillips Author was hired in 1947, became the paper's executive editor in 1966, and was publisher/CEO at parent Dow Jones at his retirement in 1991 McGraw-Hill 9x6 hardcover [8/2011] for $17.49

book & magazine publishers

The Atlantic Monthly Magazine was founded in 1857 by a group of East Coast intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first editor James Russell Lowell, publisher Moses Dresser Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, first associate editor Francis H. Underwood, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
In recent times, the company is known as a multi-platform publisher. In July 2017, billionaire philanthropist & investor Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Steve Jobs [1955-2011]) purchased a majority stake from businessman & publisher David G. Bradley, who retains a minority interest and remains the operating partner.
official company website • company entry at Wikipedia
160th Anniversary Project: 160 Years of The Atlantic Magazine Stories

The Wire looked at the news & opinion industry; it was launched in 2009 and was folded back into The Atlantic in 2014.

partner site CityLab was launched in September 2011 as The Atlantic Cities and was rebranded in 2014. In 2015, CityLab partnered with Univision
to launch CityLab Latino, which features original journalism in Spanish as well as translated reporting from CityLab.com.
CityLab official website

the weekly Quartzy and Quartzy Index emails deliver free lifestyle & business enews to your inbox, and are very mobile friendly;
the Quartzy Index launched in October 2016 and is sponsored by iShares.
Quartzy enews official website • Quartzy Index official website

The Radio Atlantic podcast - 'Tune in every Friday' - was launched in July 2017, hosted by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg,
deputy editor Matt Thompson, and-or CBS-TV co-anchor [Ms] Alex Wagner 'chatting with leading voices from The Atlantic'

The Masthead membership program was launched in September 2017; for $100/year, members have access to a wide range of exclusive content that includes
participation with editors and writers of The Atlantic on national conference calls • official 'The Masthead' subsite (requires subscription)

"The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly - 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History" [2007] Edited by Robert Vare, with Daniel B. Smith Kindle Edition from Broadway Books/Random House [10/2008] for $4.99 Broadway Books 8¾x5½ pb [10/2008] out of print/many used Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2007] out of print/50+ used includes FICTION by Saul Bellow ("Mr. Sammler's Planet" 11/1969), Ernest Hemingway ("Fifty Grand", 7/1927), Garrison Keillor ("Lake Wobegon Days", 8/1985), Vladimir Nabokov ("Cloud, Castle, Lake", 6/1941), Flannery O'Connor ("The Barber", 10/1970), Mark Twain ("A True Story", 11/1874) • • POEMS by Robert Frost ('Birches', 'The Road Not Taken', and 'The Sound of Trees', 8/1915), Julia Ward Howe ('Battle Hymn of The Republic', 2/1862), Stanley Kunitz ('The Wellfleet Whale', 11/1981), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ('Paul Revere's Ride', 1/1861), James Russell Lowell ('Ode To Lincoln', 9/1865), Robert Lowell ('For The Union Dead',

11/1960), Walt Whitman ('Bardic Symbols', 4/1860) • • ARTICLES and OPINION by George Bancroft, Isaiah Berlin, Vannevar Bush, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson ("American Civilization", 4/1862 & another), James Fallows, William Greider, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., William Dean Howells, William James, Randall Jarrell, Helen Keller (2), George F. Kennan, John F. Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ('Letter From Birmingham Jail', 8/1963), William Least Heat-Moon, Henry Demarest Lloyd, James Russell Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, George McGovern, John Muir, V.S. Naipaul, Reinhold Niebuhr, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Alfred E. Smith, 'Studs' Terkel ("The Good War", 7/1984), Henry David Thoreau ("Walking", 6/1862), boxer Gene Tunney, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, E.B. White, Garry Wills, Woodrow Wilson • • and ARTICLES on Charles Darwin, Joseph Stalin, Lyndon Johnson, Warren Buffett, Abraham Lincoln, and capitalism

Newsweek Magazine [est. 1933] ceased print publication in December 2012, shifting to digital-only as Newsweek Global.

Macmillan Publishers imprints in USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers_(United_States)
Bedford
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
W.H. Freeman & Worth Publishers
Henry Holt and Co.
Hill and Wang
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
Minotaur Books
Palgrave Macmillan
Picador
Roaring Brook Press
St. Martin's Griffin
Thomas Dunne Books
Tor Books

Penguin Random House, Inc. [merger late 2013]
Merger plans announced 10/2012 for Random House (owned by Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by Pearson plc)
due to complete in late 2013; the combined entity will control over a quarter of the industry's market share.

television & radio networks

Magic Lantern Video & Book Store's Television & Radio Networks Page

banks & finance
the links & images here were cut to a new Banks, Bankers & Investors Page in September 2022.

electronics & internet

                 
homepage/main directory at Amazon website

Spirit of America Bookstore's Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994] Page
Nordell Bookstores Group Kindle Hardware & Content Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Apple, Inc. [est. 1975] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Facebook, Inc. [est. 1975] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Google, Inc. [est. 1996] Page

Founded by merger as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, renamed International Business Machines, Inc. in 1924.

Spirit of America Bookstore's Microsoft, Inc. [est. 1975] Page

fuel & power

        
Spirit of America Bookstore's G.O.P. / B.P. Megaspill 2010 Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Enron Corp. [1985-2006] Page

gas station / convenience store chains

Circle K

Maverik

Q.T.R. Corp. / QuikTrip Corporation

insurance & credit

g r o c e r y

"Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food In America" [2017] by Michael Ruhlman Kindle Edition from Abrams Press [5/2017] for $10.49 Abrams Press 8¼x5½ pb [5/2018] for $17.29 Abrams Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2017] for $27.20

Albertsons Grocery [est. 1939; based in Boise, Idaho]
The Albertson's chain went public in 1959, and opened its 100th store in Seattle in 1964. Albertsons purchased American Stores Co. in 1999, which included the chains ACME (PA, NJ, MD, DE), Lucky (CA & NV), Jewel/Jewel-Osco (IL, IN, IA, MI), and pharmacy chains Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs; the Lucky brand was retired. The apostrophe was removed in 2002. The Albertsons company was purchased by Cerberus and CVS Pharmacy and SuperValu in June 2006 and then split up among them. Albertsons purchased failing SuperValu in March 2013 by assuming $3.2B in debt and adding $100M in cash. Also in 2013, the Albertsons company purchased United Supermarkets LLC [est. 1916] dba The United Family®, a Texas-based grocery chain with stores in 54 communities in Texas & New Mexico, currently 96 stores & 38 fuel centers under five unique banners - United Supermarkets, Market Street, Amigos, Albertson Market, and United Express Albertsons purchased Safeway in January 2015 for $9.2B, becoming the #2 grocery chain in America, after Kroger's; the deal required selling off 146 stores; the Safeway brands included Carrs Safeway, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Vons, plus a 49% share of the Casa Ley grocery chain of Mexico.

The Albertsons brands today include: Acme, Albertsons & Albertsons Market, Amigos grocery, Carrs-Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Lucky Supermarkets, Market Street, Osco Drug, Pavilions
Supermarket, Randall's, Safeway grocery, Sav-on Pharmacy, Shaw's, Star Market, Super Saver Foods, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets & United Express, and Vons grocery.

Albertsons Grocery attempted in February 2018 to purchase the 2,500-store Rite Aid pharmacy chain, but was rejected by Rite Aid shareholders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Natural_Foods is main supplier to Whole Foods Market
http://www.unfi.com/         

r e t a i l

electronics retailer Best Buy [est. 1966, renamed 1983]

Borders Books was founded in 1971; bankruptcy & liquidation July 2011

Hallmark Hall of Fame television production
CBS-TV ended its partnership with Hallmark Hall of Fame in May 2011 by not renewing
their 16-year-long deal for three TV movies a year; Hallmark bounced back in July with a multi-year deal to
preview Hallmark productions on A.B.C. with a one-week delay before showings on the Hallmark Channel.

IKEA International A/S [est. 1943] is the world's largest furniture retailer. While IKEA is officially based in Sweden,
revenues are deposited to a non-profit structure in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg & The Netherlands, which are reported to
control twelve billion dollars in cash. The U.S. division includes manufacturing plants. As of October 2011,
IKEA has 326 stores in thirty-eight countries.

Procter & Gamble (based in Cincinnati): Always feminine products, Bold, Bounce, Bounty, Braun, Cascade, Charmin, Cheer, CoverGirl, Crest dental products, Dash, Dawn, Downy laundry products, Duracell batteries, Era, Febreze, Fixodent, Gain, Gillette shaving products, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Iams, Ivory soap, Luvs, Metamucil, Mr. Clean, Olay, Old Spice, Oral-B dental products, Pampers, Pantene, Pepto-Bismol, Prilosec, Safeguard, Scope, Secret, Seven Seas, Swiffer, Tampax feminine products, Tide laundry soap, Vicks, Vidal Sassoon

Unilever (based in London): Axe, Becel, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Bertolli, Best Foods, Breyers, Clear, Colman's, Comfort, Dawn, Degree, Dove ice cream, Fudgsicle, Hellmann's, Klondike ice cream, Knorr, Lifebuoy soap, Lipton (with PepsiCo), Lux, Magnum, Marmite, Persil, Pond's, Popsicle, Signal, Sir Kensington's, Sealtest, Skippy peanut butter, Slimfast, Sunlight, Surf, St. Ives, Talenti, Tresemme, Vaseline

Spirit of America Bookstore's Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [est. 1962] Page

        
Wawa, Inc. began as a Pennsylvania dairy farm in 1902; the first Wawa Food Market store opened in 1964; today there are more than
780 stores and 30,000 employees, with the newest giant location just opened in Washington, DC.
official company website • company entry at Wikipedia

"The Wawa Way: How A Funny Name and Six Core Values Revolutionized Convenience" [2014] by Howard Stoeckel & Bob Andelman Kindle Edition from Running Press/Hachette [4/2014] for $10.99 Running Press 9x6 pb [11/2015] out of print/used Running Press 8x5 hardcover [4/2014] out of print/used

F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime stores [1879-1997]
Retailer Frank Winfield 'F.W.' Woolworth [1852-1919] opened his first store in Utica, New York on 22 February 1878; that store failed and he opened a second store in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania on 17 July 1879; Woolworth Corp. announced in July 1997 that it was closing its remaining 400 stores. The corporation refocused on sportsgear and absorbed its independent Footlocker chain [est. 1974], renaming itself in 2001.
Foot Locker, Inc. company website • company entry at Wikipedia

"Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of The World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime" [1999] by Karen Plunkett-Powell St. Martin's Griffin 9x7 pb [7/2001] out of print/used St. Martin 9¼x7¼ hardcover [12/99] out of print/used

apparel

Munsingwear closed 1981

miscellaneous

H.R.G. Group, Inc. is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries that offer:
life insurance and annuity products through Fidelity & Guaranty Life;
financing and asset management services through Five Island Asset Management, LLC and Salus Capital Partners, LLC;
branded consumer products through Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.;
and oil & natural gas properties through the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, HGI Energy Holdings, LLC

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. - established in 2005 as the successor company to Rayovac Corp. [est. 1906]
headquartered in Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin

subsidiary United Industries Corp. home pest control products [purch 1/2005 for about $476M]
brands include Spectracide®, Hot Shot®, Garden Safe®, Black Flag®, Cutter®, Liquid Fence®, Repel®, and Ecologic®

subsidiary division Home and Personal Care
brands include George Foreman Grill, Toastmaster, Black & Decker Home appliances, Russell Hobbs®,
Remington® personal care products [est. 1937], and Armored Auto Group [purchased in April 2015]

subsidiary United Pet Group based in Cincinnati, Ohio
brands include Tetra, Whisper, Marineland, Perfecto, Jungle, GloFish®, Instant Ocean, Visi-Therm, Eight-in-One, Dingo,
Nature's Miracle, Lazy Pet, Wonderbox, FURminator®, IAMS, Eukanuba, DreamBone®

{former} subsidiary division Hardware & Home Improvement was sold to Assa Abloy for $4.3B in September 2021
brands include SmartKey, Kwikset, Baldwin, Weiser, Pfister, and National Hardware

http://www.johnniewalker.com/ is based in Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Walker

                                               
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. [est. 1886]
manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer products based in Racine, Wisconsin; brands include Drano, Glade room freshener,
Janitor In A Drum, Kiwi shoe polish, OFF! insect repellant, Pledge furniture polish, Raid insecticides, Saran Wrap, Windex, and Ziploc storage bags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._C._Johnson_%26_Son

Johnson & Johnson

Mensa International [est. 1946] American Mensa, Ltd. [est. 1960] New Mexico Mensa

Tiffany & Company Jewelers [founded 1837, renamed 1853] of New York City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_%26_Co.
"Crazy About Tiffany's" fully-authorized documentary [indep Feb 2016]
https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-About-Tiffanys-Blu-ray-Jessica/dp/B01BT1VOPS/
https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-About-Tiffanys-Jessica-Biel/dp/B01BT1VPZW/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dW0jftfCI trailer [2.22]

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