by Gary Hoover | Mar 9, 2022 | Articles, Consumer Products, Newsletters, Share Your History
If you read Part One of this story, published in our last newsletter, you know that TravelFest was an immediate success with customers. The store was not big enough to handle the traffic, so we decided to build larger stores. The original 6,000 square foot...
by Gary Hoover | Feb 27, 2022 | Articles, Consumer Products, Newsletters, Share Your History
Read the second part of this two-part story here. Two years ago, we started our “Share Your History” page on our website. We solicited contributions from our readers, telling us of their history with enterprises large or small. To start the page, we seeded...
by Fred Phillips and Dan Merchant | Jul 4, 2020 | Share Your History
It is easy for manufacturers and retailers to know how much product moves out their doors. It is harder, but very necessary, for businesses to know what kinds of people buy what kinds of goods, with what frequency, the degree of brand loyalty, and whether it’s in...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 25, 2019 | Articles, Biographies, Consumer Products, Share Your History
I really appreciate the history of the Indiana Glass Company provided by The Museum of Glass in West Virginia (and Tom Felt, Monograph #69) and Craig Schenning in his great book about Indiana Glass from Schiffer Publishing. As well as the folks at...