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- Darden's Olive Garden Presses On Despite Downturn
- Garland Pollard submits: SARASOTA - Here in this retiree mecca, you can get a pretty good indication of the health of America’s restaurants as you drive down our highway strip, Tamiami Trail. Of the chains along U.S. 41, a newly opened Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG is packed, and all the...
- External links 2009-01-11
- ExxonMobil Is Going to Miss Mobil Travel Guide
- Garland Pollard submits: Mobil was once a brand that stood for absolute quality in all aspects of its operations, from its gas stations to PBS programming to guidebooks. Its graphic design, much of it by the noted firm Chermayeff & Geismar, is legendary. That work built upon the work of...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Google's Ad-Sales Reporting Is the Real Newspaper Killer
- Garland Pollard submits: I got a handsome newsletter from Google GOOG a few weeks ago. It was a four-page 80-pound-paper stock mailing, printed just for me, in a crisp envelope, entitled Adwords Newsletter. It was to tell me about my recent ad campaign with Google. A report worthy of the...
- External links 2009-08-02
- Tod's Knows What He's Buying in Saks
- Garland Pollard submits: From $40 in 1998 to $3.80 in 2009. That’s not good. Some see disappointment. But not everyone. The news recently was that the Italian luxury shoe maker Tod’s had purchased shares in Saks (NYSE: SKS). Apparently Diego Della Valle, Tod’s Chairman (called the Italian Ralph...
- External links 2009-06-01
- A&P's Fruitcake Strategy
- Garland Pollard submits: There is but one grocery chain that inspires literature. It’s the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (NYSE: GAP), this year celebrating its 150th anniversary. In John Updike’s Kennedy-era short story “A&P” a 19-year-old clerk identifies with three scantily clad girls who come into an A&P in...
- External links 2009-03-05
- CNN Might Have Lost Money on Obama Coverage
- Garland Pollard submits: LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA - "Who owns the data?" That was the big question for Facebook sales executive Tom Arrix on Feb. 23 while he was on stage at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Meeting in Orlando. by Garland Pollard
- External links 2009-02-25
- MagCloud: Hewlett-Packard's Hope for Traditional Publishers
- Garland Pollard submits: The new media landscape is a “vacuum that represents enormous opportunity.” So says Michael Mendenhall, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ). Speaking at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Meeting entitled “Ecosystem 2.0: Brands Battle Back,” on Monday, Mendenhall said...
- External links 2009-02-24
- How to Fix eBay
- Garland Pollard submits: On a radio interview a few weeks ago I heard Sherwood Schwartz, executive producer of Gilligan’s Island, say that he felt that it was entirely rational that the Professor, genius that he was, could never figure a way off the island, when all he had to do...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Apple SEC Investigation: Rotten to Core
- Garland Pollard submits: CUPERTINO - So wait, it's the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) disclosure of Steven Jobs' illness? Is this the same brilliant S.E.C. that refused to regulate hedge funds, and could not even figure out that...
- External links 2009-01-26
- Move from Beverly Hills Hurts Hilton Mystique
- Garland Pollard submits: Hilton Hotels Corp. announced Wednesday, January 21 that it would move its headquarters from Beverly Hills to the Washington D.C. area, either the Maryland or Virginia suburbs. As a former Virginian who would love to see Hilton in the Commonwealth, I still think it is a horrible...
- External links 2009-01-23
- What's Circuit City's Website Worth?
- Garland Pollard submits: So Circuit City (CCTYQ.PK) is in trouble, and the press is reporting that the company has days to either be purchased, or liquidated. We can’t predict what will happen. All we know is that we went into the Sarasota store today, and there were customers. That...
- External links 2009-01-12
- Delta: Use the Northwest Brand or Lose It
- Garland Pollard submits: It's a fundamental of trademark law. To keep a trademark, you have to use it. My old Virginia bank Virginia National Bank learned that lesson. It dropped the name VNB, and merged a number of times into what is now Bank of America BAC. A...
- External links 2009-08-12
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