by Bruce Turkel | Jul 15, 2012 | Branding
According to legend, a teenage Lana Turner was discovered at Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. For years, Schwab’s was the place where actors got together to chat and exchange gossip. According to a website devoted to the pharmacy’s history: “In the ’30s and ’40s you...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
A startling shift is changing the demographics of the world’s most important market. 2012 is the first year in history that non-Hispanic white births in the United States will no longer be the majority. According to The New York Times, “in the latest sign of the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
During the negotiations on the terms of Spain’s bailout, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sent a text to his finance minister. Encouraging the minister to be a tough negotiator, Rajoy wrote: “We’re the number four power in Europe. Spain is not Uganda.” Of course,...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 24, 2012 | Branding
When I was in college, moving into the dorms was an arduous ritual. First we’d set up our stereos. Of course they were enormous – mine was comprised of big JBL speakers, a separate Marantz amp and McIntosh pre-amp, a Pioneer turntable and Aiwa cassette deck. The...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
On one of our morning runs last week, Stella was telling me about her son and how he wins at everything. He’s a high school golf champion, he always wins when they play Scrabble, and even though he doesn’t run regularly, he did run three miles with his marathoner...
