Board: Company Man

WHSmith

They are a huge stationary retailer in the U.K. and have been around for over 225 years! However, I have noticed that they have began to go into decline in…

Natural wonders

Natural wonders this unique retail store was one of my favorites growing up you could buy geodes crystals different kinds of rocks and minerals to display Rock Tumblr‘s they also…

Olivetti

This is an italian company that used to rivalry IBM back in the early era of computers. As far as I know is credited for creating the first commercial desktop…

Datsun

I understand that Datsun was A known name in the US, not Nissan. Why change to Nissan? How did this effect sales? I am vaguely familiar with the reason why.

Fujitsu

It’s worthy because this company is so old and has a broad product and service base.

RealNetworks RealVIDEO player

RealNetworks RealVIDEO player is credited with being the first ever player capable of “streaming” live video over the net. Released as a plugin to RealAudio Player in 1997, it apparently,…

Geocities

Having had a geocities website (mine is still in the archive) was free and easy Whatever happened to it?

American Apparel

The clothing business had an interesting take on being sweatshop-free and used provocative marketing. But that mixed with a combination of other factors led to its demise.