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 | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Biographies, Consumer Products, Newsletters
This article first appeared in the Archbridge Institute’s American Original Series. Born in upstate New York in 1801, Gail Borden was raised there and in Kentucky and Indiana. As a young man, he moved to Mississippi and then Texas in search of...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 25, 2019 | Articles, Finance, Share Your History, Share Your History
I fell in love with retailing by the time I was 13. After studying economics in college at the University of Chicago, I wanted to become a securities analyst covering the retail industry on Wall Street (which of course means the industry, not necessarily on that...