American Girl

The rise and decline of a doll franchise that has been popular with young girls in the US since the late 80s, but has since suffered a decline due to…

Swensen’s

The company was started by an ex US sailor in San Francisco in 1948. The company eventually expanded to somewhere around 400 locations. Today there are only 3 locations in…

T series

So we can learn about pewds’ arch nemesis

Diamond Distribution

Diamond Distribution has a monopoly on distribution of comics to comic book retailers since the 90’s. Marvel comics tried to compete by setting up its own distribution system but ultimately…

Claires

I understand they survived a bankruptcy recently and came out of it significantly better. They have been around a long time but I find it interesting that they were like…

IGN

because ign used to own gamespy and gamespy was used for the wii and ds wifi services

Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce

The history of the original company, Huy Fong Foods, is very interesting as well as the product itself and its insertion into the meme world ans social media