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.

Sleep Number

This company started very small, grew and aquired parents and other companies, nearly died in 2008, and is one of two profitable mattress manufacturers in 2018. The only mattress company…

Tootsie Roll Industries

Independent company with some interesting brands Charleston Chew, Blow Pop, Andes, Jr. Mints, Dubble Bubble, Dots, Charms. I’m surprised it hasn’t been acquired. Has done well on stock market, still…

The decline of Tumblr

Tumblr has been going down lately for multiple reasons (toxic userbase, bad moderation, staff ignoring legit problems, etc.). It would be pretty cool to see a video of its decline!

Google

What started of as a simple search engine turned into a $280 billion dollar company. Google is tied into so much of peoples lives that everyone at least uses one…

AIG (American International Group)

AIG’s history is chock full of interesting twists in turns ranging from its involvement in locating bomb plants in WW2 with the OSS (Precursor to the CIA) to managing relations…

Arby’s :The rise and fall

This chain used to be around everywhere and had commercials on TV with the big hat and it seemed popular. I want to know what happened? Why did it go…

CarMax

They were created out of circuit city several years before it died and have grown to become a huge company. They have had issues with recalls and overall quality and…