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Corporations & Brands

The corporations of America have established an array of highly-recognizable
logos and trademarks to identify their products as brands.

blank label cans & boxes for generic foods             apparel
automobiles
banks & finance
electronics & internet
food & fast food
fuel & power
heavy industry
insurance & credit
lodging
media & entertainment
miscellaneous
retail
television & radio networks
transportation
utilities


browse Business & Investing › Industries & Professions catalog at Amazon
browse Business & Investing › Marketing & Sales catalog at Amazon

Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. Business Leaders & Corporations Pages

'Rat Race' Film Festival Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Corporations vs. America
Working Minds / Corporations vs. America / Books On The Subject

Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Business & Economic Monopolies

22 Immutable Laws of Branding book by Al & Laura Ries  "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How To Build A Product or Service Into A World-Class Brand" [1998]
by Al & Laura Ries

Harper 9x7¼ pb [9/2002] for $12.91
HarperCollins 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/dozens used
Brand New / Consumers Trust book by Nancy F. Koehn  "Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood To Dell" [2001]
by Nancy F. Koehn

Harvard Business Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2001] for $29.16
No Logo book by Naomi Klein  "No Logo: Taking Aim At The Brand Bullies - 10th Anniversary Edition With A New Introduction By The Author" [orig 2000]
by Naomi Klein

Kindle Edition from Picador [11/2009] for $9.99
Macmillan/Picador 8½x5½ pb [11/2009] for $10.88
Macmillan/Picador hardcover [1/2000] out of print/many used
BrandWashed Shopper book by Sarah A. O'Leary  "BrandWashed: Why The Shopper Matters More Than What You're Selling" [2011]
by Sarah A. O'Leary

CreateSpace pb [8/2011] for $15.08
Brandwashed book by Martin Lindstrom  "Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use To Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us To Buy" [2011]
by Martin Lindstrom

Crown Business 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2011] for $14.37

food & fast food

American Roadside Diners Page

   
Spirit of America / Food Traditions Page / Coca-Cola® Dept.

Friendly's - Where Ice Cream Makes The Meal [est. 1935] based in Massachusetts

I.H.O.P. and new I.H.O.P. at Home brand

   


long-standing logo for Kraft Foods            
Announced 8/2011: Kraft Foods is splitting the company into two entities, with one being the candy products
and the other including the food & food service lines.


   

"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee®"


Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Corporations vs. America Page / Starbucks Coffee

Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers

Wil Wright's Premium Parlor Ice Cream is back!

lodging

                    

      


heavy industry

Boeing

Douglas Aircraft

                 

Lockheed Martin

Hughes Aircraft

U.S. Steel

Spirit of America Bookstore's Tractors & Farm Equipment Page

transportation

Spirit of America Bookstore's American Railroads Pages

      


utilities


automobiles

Spirit of America / Roadside America Page / Vintage Autos Section

Spirit of America / Roadside America Page / Motorcycles Section

media & entertainment

Bantam Books

Fortune Magazine [est. 1930]

Eastman Kodak
Kodak announced in January 2012 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Life Magazine [est. 1934]

early Gertie the Kangaroo logo for Pocket Books paperback editions

Sports Illustrated Magazine [est. 1954]

Time Magazine [est. 1923] - "We not only mark history, we make it too." – managing editor Richard Stengel, in 2010

Newspaperman Inside The Wall Street Journal book by Warren Phillips  "Newspaperman: Inside The News Business At The Wall Street Journal"
[2011] by Warren H. Phillips

Author was hired in 1947, became the paper's executive editor in 1966, and was publisher/CEO at parent Dow Jones at his retirement in 1991
McGraw-Hill 9x6 hardcover [8/2011] for $17.49

television & radio networks

Magic Lantern's Television & Radio Networks Page

banks & finance

Bank of America is NOT too damn big to fail!

CitiBank is NOT too damn big to fail!


I.N.G. Groep N.V. headquartered in Holland, US branch based in Minnesota      

JPMorgan Chase
owns failed Bear Stearns & failed Washington Mutual


electronics & internet

Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994]          Amazon's Kindle ebook reader [launched 2007]          Amazon Studios [est. 11/2010]
Spirit of America Bookstore's Business Page / Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994] Section

Apple Computer Inc.
Spirit of America Bookstore's Business Page / Apple, Inc. [est. 1975] Section


Spirit of America Bookstore's Business Page / Google, Inc. [est. 1996] Section


Spirit of America Bookstore's Business Page / Microsoft, Inc. [est. 1975] Section

fuel & power

        
Spirit of America's G.O.P. / B.P. Megaspill 2010 Page


Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Corporations vs. America Page / The Enron Scandal

Union 76 round tin sign {no longer available at AllPosters.com}

insurance & credit


retail

homepage main directory at Amazon [est. July 1995]
Spirit of America Bookstore's Business Page / Amazon, Inc. Section


electronics retailer Best Buy [est. 1966, renamed 1983]


Borders Books was founded in 1971; bankruptcy & liquidation July 2011



Hallmark Hall of Fame television production
CBS-TV ended its partnership with Hallmark Hall of Fame in May 2011 by not renewing
their 16-year-long deal for three TV movies a year; Hallmark bounced back in July with a multi-year deal to
preview Hallmark productions on A.B.C. with a one-week delay before showings on the Hallmark Channel.




IKEA International A/S [est. 1943] is the world's largest furniture retailer. While IKEA is officially based in Sweden,
revenues are deposited to a non-profit structure in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg & The Netherlands; they are reported to
control twelve billion dollars in cash. The U.S. division includes manufacturing plants. As of October 2011,
IKEA has 326 stores in thirty-eight countries.


7-Eleven convenience stores

Walgreens Drugs: The pharmacy America trusts [est. 1901]


Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Corporations vs. America Page / Boycott Wal-Mart !!


apparel

Brooks Brothers Clothiers [est. 1818]

Nike's swoosh


miscellaneous

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing's '3M' logo

Coleman Outdoor [est. 1905]

Johnnie Walker
logo for Mensa: The International High IQ Society [est. 1946] Mensa International [est. 1946]
American Mensa, Ltd. [est. 1960]
New Mexico Mensa

The WD-40 Company logo

Western Union Money Transfers [ est. 1851] discontinued telegrams in 2006


Spirit of America Corporations & Brands Page
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food & fast foodfuel & powerheavy industryinsurance & credit
lodgingmedia & entertainmentmiscellaneousretail
television & radio networkstransportation


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