Different & Better
Bored with all the usual festive challenges? Then try the Brand Historian’s Yuletide Brands Quiz which celebrates the founders and the inspiration for 16 iconic brands. All you have to to do is to identify the ‘brand managers’ featured below, Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: Bristol, 1822 Amongst the brands that defined my over confected youth and won my heart was the fruity fondant deliciousness of Fry’s Five Centre – a pocket-sized dark chocolate slab containing seams of pineapple, raspberry, lime, orange Read More
(and Happy Thanksgiving to all my chums) 1795 Jim Beam 1806 Colgate 1818 Brooks Brothers 1830 Macy’s 1850 American Express 1869 Heinz Ketchup 1876 Budweiser 1879 Ivory Soap 1880 Kodak 1886 Coca Cola 1892 Philadelphia 1894 Kellogg’s Cornflakes 1900 Hershey Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: 1939 There was not much to smile about in Britain in 1939. With the possibility of war with Germany becoming ever more likely, in London, the nation’s art treasures were being packed up and transported Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: 2010 Whilst brands are special kinds of words that tend to have their meanings curated carefully by communication professionals, there are many more words in the dictionary whose meanings seem to have a life of Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: 1240 Long before the punks arrived, it was monks who created all the best brand narratives in beer, and in the whole of tonsured Christendom, the best brewsters were found in Belgium. One Order, in Read More
The Brand That Turned Back Time At 4.41 am on the morning of 25 July 1909, someone gave the signal that the sun had risen, and Henri Blériot, the inventor of the car headlamp, took off into history. He was Read More
How the hippies took over the world of branding From the Brand Historian’s Timeline, 1998 There’s nothing like a hot new brand to create a wave of jealousy, especially in large corporations. One of the constant questions the mega-corps ask Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: 1989 The Daily Candy is a popular trend website that introduced us to its own wryly observed lexicon of words that don’t exist but should. Bluetoothsome is a word they coined to describe someone “so attractive that his/her Read More
From the Brand Historian’s Timeline: 1978 Donald Pleasance was surely one of the most characterful of all British character actors. In a long career, he created a veritable gallery of movie villains including Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Doctor Crippen, Heinrich Himmler Read More
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