Which Brand Has Dropped The Furthest

[Piece]

Blackberry phones

 

[Foxholer]

Blackberry phones

That has to be a candidate for #1 of modern era as the concept (mobile phone/messaging +) hasn't changed, but the company/concept has simply been superceded.
The company (RIM) is still going and there are apparently 10s of millions of Blackberry phones still being used worldwide. Their major area of business is, as it always has been, secure comms - the handsets were/are merely ways to do the comms! Turnover of about 1Bn$US and Profit about 130M$US
Perhaps they never had the vision about mobile phones that others did, or simply too much inertia/focus on their core USP.

 

[rulefan]

My old company ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Once an FT100 company, offices all over the globe, one of the major chemical companies in the world and disappeared off the face of the map due to bad management. Some of the businesses still exist (Chlor-Alkali to Ineos, Paints to Akzo Nobel, Pharamecuticals to Astra Zeneca for example) but so sad to see.

They still pay my pension on time.

 

[rulefan]

One of their big sponsorship deals was

I still have the model that Nigel Mansell presented to ICI Fibres staff.

 

[jim8flog]

I'd add M&S to that. They always had decent suits and shirts and clothing. Went into my local store and thought the suits were made of very cheap feeling material and a lot of their other clothing seemed very expensive for what it was. They always had a certain reputation (my mum swore by them) and now I am comfortably middle aged and can be seen to be shopping there I'm always underwhelmed

luckily for me I know longer need suits

I still buy their chinos but we are fortunate in that we have a branch of their clearance and bought for retail outlet stores in a town nearby.
Certainly very overpriced compared to other retailers selling similar (bought from abroad) stock.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Saw yesterday that Sofa Workshop has just very recently (last week?) gone…was always high up there when looking for new sofa…now gone.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Thinking on the music front…Bush radios and record players, and Garrard turntables.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

AOL

everyone used to have them.. then now if you still have one its only worth keeping to save the hassle of changing emails

 

[Foxholer]

Who knows

They have a web page for 'Find Stores in UK....' that returns 'There are no stores within 100km of your location' for me - and I'm near M25 J11.

 

[Robster59]

Mentioned in passing but Thomas Cook is another massive fall. From a position of a global holiday provider to disappearing overnight.

 

[Dando]

Not a brand but jazz mags - once found in every teenage boys bedroom. now it’s all on line apparently

 

[Imurg]

Not a brand but jazz mags - once found in every teenage boys bedroom. now it’s all on line apparently

Are they the ones with the interesting articles.??

 

[Fade and Die]

Not a brand but jazz mags - once found in every teenage boys bedroom. now it’s all on line apparently

True. Never a fan of the music but enjoyed the mags.

Wasn’t a proper “Camp” if you didn’t have a well thumbed copy of Fiesta stashed somewhere. ?

 

[arnieboy]

AOL

everyone used to have them.. then now if you still have one its only worth keeping to save the hassle of changing emails

Yep, I have an AOL email, why change at my age. I would only get confused.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Yep, I have an AOL email, why change at my age. I would only get confused.

My wife has one. Over the last 10 years we have slowly moved her to Gmail , not all at once but changed the important stuff to Gmail and left AOL for stuff she isn't worried about

Like you say it's more of a pain to move

My parents have bt email , they wish they had never bothered and just got a free Hotmail or whatever account because now they don't want to leave bt as they have to change their email or pay bt to keep it

 

[GaryK]

Milk Marketing Board.

Pacific....? clothing
I remember paying silly money to my daughter to buy the 'must have' brand

Ocean Pacific? Big trendy brand in the 80's