Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2012

Not Corn Pops...... :smt089


http://247wallst.com/2011/06/22/247-wall-st-ten-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2012/

1. Sony Pictures
2. A&W Fast Food Restaurants
3. Saab
4. American Apparel
5. Sears
6. Sony Ericsson
7. Kellogg's Corn Pops
8. MySpace
9. Soap Opera Digest
10. Nokia



Each year, 24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term. Last year’s list proved to be prescient in many instances, predicting the demise of T-Mobile among others. In late May, AT&T (NYSE:T) and Deutsch Telekom announced that AT&T would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. The deal would add 34 million customers to the company and create the country’s largest wireless operator.

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Other 201o nominees – including Blockbuster – bit the dust, while companies, such as Dollar Thrifty are on the road to oblivion. Last September, after finally giving in to competition from Netflix and buckling under nearly $1 billion in debt, Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In April of this year, Dish Network acquired the company for $320 million. Car rental chain Dollar Thrifty is still entertaining buyout offers from Avis and Hertz. On June 6, the embattled company recommended that its shareholders not accept Hertz’s recent offer, valued at $2.24 billion, or $72 a share. Meanwhile, on June 13th, Avis Budget announced that “it had made progress in its discussion with the Federal Trade Commission regarding its potential acquisition” of the company. Although Dollar Thrifty can remain choosy, a sale is a matter of when, not if.

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I wish they would add McDonalds and Burger King to that list.


Ugh.

 

Interesting stuff, Jordan. Corn Pops? Say it ain't so!

Thanks for posting.

 

i love me some corn pops

 

You better stock up

 

lol they dont do them over here any more, they used to be back in the day along with lucky charms, ill be in the usa end of the month so guess ill have to have my last few bowls of them then lool

 

Interesting prediction. It would be sad to see Nokia go.

 

The only one I'd miss would be A&W. They're kind of a staple in
Pierce County.

 

What's wrong with them? They are a delicious treat!!!!

 

I better get corn pops now. Before they're disappearing from the face of the earth forever.

 

Too bad the BET Network isn't on this list.

 

Hmm.. Interesting, I never thought of that. Could you explain why you want BET on there?

 

Luckily, that'll never happen.

 

my son will be devastated if corn pops go away...one of his favorite cereals...


i see you are still dreaming about me:heart:

 

You can always buy some Blue Waffles cereal for your son. It tastes like Porn Pops, but with an additional creamy flavor.

 

he only likes his moms buttermilk vanilla waffles

 

LOL

 

What are the chances of me getting some of that? And does that come with a Red Pancake special?

 

lippy is not falling for your links...i can't look

 

Soooo sad about Saab. My las car was a Saab-aru, that Saab 9.2x that was basically a Subaru Outback. But it handled like a dream for a tiny hatchback. Loved it. Nokia started the mobile craze, but has become pretty much irrelevant.