Arnold vs Brownberry vs Oroweat

Another Dreyer’s vs Eddy’s situation, but this time there are three names, all for the same bread with the same logo and everything.

“Easy to Forsee Failing”

It could be a new series! Companies that either failed or are headed that way. Companies that, in retrospect, were doomed from the beginning.

Spectrum Cable Outages

The origin story on Spectrum. Originally, it was Adelphia before it was sold to Comcast and Time Warner in 2006. Then in 2007, the company became Time Warner Cable. In…

Bob’s Big Boy

Bob’s Big Boy is a restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, At its peak in 1989, there were over 240 Bob’s locations throughout the United…

Polaroid

Having been synonymous with ready-made pictures you can see within minutes, they have a rich history of development of diverse photographic media, and were about as synonymous with photography as…

Williams-Sonoma, Inc

I worked for WSI years ago a couple different times – from 2002-2005/6 at Pottery Barn, and then again in 2016/17 at Pottery Barn Kids in both general personnel and…