Tag: business

• Barnes & Noble likes books again

  Ted Gioia on the remarkable rebound of Barnes & Noble: [CEO James Daunt] used the pandemic as an opportunity to “weed out the rubbish” in the stores. He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay. Every section of the store needed to be refreshed…

  Jan 26, 2023

  # Barnes and Noble, books, bookstores, business, movies, music, publishing

• The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

  In the summer of 2013 I interned at the Leo Burnett advertising agency’s corporate library and archives. In the course of my work I came upon boxes of original conceptual artwork and copy from the 1950s and ’60s of the famous brands Leo Burnett created: the Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy.…

  Sep 5, 2017

  # books, business, history, Kellogg’s, Leo Burnett, Michigan, review, science