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tu_holmes

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2013, 11:11:37 AM »
Pan American Airlines
Oldsmobile
Amoco

Facebook

Lots of Airlines.

Eastern
TWA

Oldsmobile is sad and I had totally forgot that Amoco had merged with BP back in the day.

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2013, 11:13:48 AM »
Pepsi clear
British Knight shoes
Jimmy'z
Sega

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2013, 11:16:05 AM »
Pan American Airlines
Oldsmobile
Amoco

Facebook

That would be a blessing

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2013, 11:17:42 AM »
Pepsi clear
British Knight shoes
Jimmy'z
Sega

BKs are still around actually. I was travelling and needed a pair of sneakers because I had left mine home (just something to workout in) and I stopped by a Payless for some cheap kicks and they had BK there.


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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2013, 11:30:20 AM »
BKs are still around actually. I was travelling and needed a pair of sneakers because I had left mine home (just something to workout in) and I stopped by a Payless for some cheap kicks and they had BK there.



Damn, they used to be expensive, and now they're at Payless?  Damn

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2013, 11:38:00 AM »
Damn, they used to be expensive, and now they're at Payless?  Damn

Yep... 9.95 on sale.

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #31 on: July 07, 2013, 12:53:31 PM »
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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #32 on: July 07, 2013, 12:58:55 PM »
 :D ;D

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #33 on: July 07, 2013, 04:50:41 PM »


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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #34 on: July 07, 2013, 04:53:24 PM »
MySpace

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #35 on: July 07, 2013, 06:04:00 PM »
Hostess Twinkies/Ding Dongs
Merry-Go-Round

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #36 on: July 07, 2013, 06:19:38 PM »
Hummer

Saturn

Ben Franklin (store)

Peach-flavored Jolly Ranchers

Caliber Grocery

Ultimate Orange

Neo Geo

Screw Magazine

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #37 on: July 07, 2013, 08:16:20 PM »
WCW

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #38 on: July 07, 2013, 08:19:16 PM »
Bear Stearns assholes. I lost 20k in my IRA from them.  :-\

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #39 on: July 07, 2013, 08:42:33 PM »
Weider
EAS
IronTech
Labrada
MuscleTech

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #40 on: July 07, 2013, 08:44:16 PM »

another slav trying to pass as italian

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #41 on: July 07, 2013, 09:02:27 PM »

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #42 on: July 07, 2013, 09:21:15 PM »
Remember Motorola use to be on the top for years and today no one is even thinking to buy it

Google bought all of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion, paying a 60% premium than what it was being traded at in the stock market the week prior.  Motorola Mobility is #206 on the Fortune 500 list.  They also just recently acquired the old Nokia factory in Texas to assemble their new line of phones


Motorola Solutions (the company that does government and enterprise tech systems) is still listed as #274 in the Fortune 500 list, with sales of over $8 Billion dollars, and 15% profit in 2012.


I think both Motorolas are going to be just fine  ;D

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #43 on: July 07, 2013, 09:29:58 PM »
Google bought all of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion, paying a 60% premium than what it was being traded at in the stock market the week prior.  Motorola Mobility is #206 on the Fortune 500 list.  They also just recently acquired the old Nokia factory in Texas to assemble their new line of phones


Motorola Solutions (the company that does government and enterprise tech systems) is still listed as #274 in the Fortune 500 list, with sales of over $8 Billion dollars, and 15% profit in 2012.


I think both Motorolas are going to be just fine  ;D


Remember where Motorola was some 20 years ago, I doubt they will get there ever again, not even close.
I can't remember when was the last time when I saw someone with motorola mobile phone.
Don't tell me you have one? ;D

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #44 on: July 08, 2013, 01:41:02 AM »
Legit Kigs

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #45 on: July 08, 2013, 02:08:46 AM »
Goodrum and Vissy's fantasy poppers*

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poppers

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #46 on: July 08, 2013, 10:24:02 AM »
the city i grew up in, our football team has been one of the noted programs in all of southern football............all the guys from my hometown we have some big dudes, my buddy templeton has genetics like a beast, he weighed 135 his sophmore year, weighed 195 huge his senior year, and would go in and smoke all the football players, they would get pissed and ask him what he was on, this was in 1988 when cybergenics came out, he would go to his bag and pull out the cybergenics............. .. ;D

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #47 on: July 08, 2013, 10:26:54 AM »

Remember where Motorola was some 20 years ago, I doubt they will get there ever again, not even close.
I can't remember when was the last time when I saw someone with motorola mobile phone.
Don't tell me you have one? ;D


Motorola's sales have more than doubled in the last 20 years..  So you clearly have no idea what you are talking about chump.



I do have  a Motorola phone.  I still stand by the fact that they are the best when it comes to device hardware.  But lets put my personal preference aside....



Yes they have recently been surpassed by companies like Samsung, Apple, etc. etc.  But no one in their right mind can say that the brand has "vanished" - not even close.

I was just discussing a Motorola case study in my PhD dissertation, in 2009 Sanjay Jha (Motorola CEO) was the highest paid CEO in America because of how smart he was to align his company so close to Google with the introduction of the Motorola Droid, this not only kept his company afloat and competitive against Apple's iPhone but it also gave Verizon a fighting a chance since the iPhone was an AT&T exclusive.  Fast forward a few years, Motorola cell phone division is then acquired by the biggest tech name in the world.

As I said Motorola is going to be just fine.


Class dismissed!

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #48 on: July 08, 2013, 10:37:10 AM »
many of these brands havent disappeared they have just merged with other corporate entities, thats all america is, a corporation behind another corporation, owned by another corporation.

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Re: Brands that just vanished
« Reply #49 on: July 08, 2013, 10:43:48 AM »