Crocs We Hardly Knew Ye

A number of well-known brands disappeared in the last year in large part due to economic forces. Many of them were in the retail industry, led by Circuit City. ATA and Aloha airlines are gone. Gateway Computers has effectively disappeared after being bought by Acer. It still has a website, but the brand is no longer marketed.

As the recession deepens and stretches out quarter after quarter, more companies will close or will shut divisions. More brands will disappear because their parent firms fold or can no longer afford to support them. Other brands will be obliterated by mergers.

Here is a compiled a list of the top brands that are in danger of disappearing. Some you may be able to capitalize by purchasing products which may soon be extremely rare and valuable.

Crocs (CROX) Borders (BGP) Avis/Budget (CAR) Saturn (General Motors GM) Esquire Magazine (The Hearst Corporation) Gap (GAP) Architectural Digest Magazine (Condé Nast Publications - subsidiary of privately-held Advance Publications) Eddie Bauer (EBHI) Palm (PALM) AIG (AIG) United Airlines (UAUA) American Airlines ( US. AMR - AMR) US Air (LCC) Yahoo! (YHOO) Motorola (MOT) Old Navy (GPS) Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC) E*Trade (ETFC) KMart (KMRT is no longer valid. It has changed to SHLD) Dodge (Owned by privately-held Chrysler company) Gateway (GTW) Vonage (VG) Circuit City (CCTYQ)

Hummer(General Motors GM) Six Flags New Orleans (SIXF) Gleem (Procter & Gamble Co PG) Pioneer's Kuro TV (PIO) Minneapolis Star Tribune Ore-Ida Fun Shape Tater Tots (HJ Heinz Co HNZ) Pontiac (General Motors GM) Handi-Snacks pudding (Kraft Foods Inc KFT) Saab (General Motors GM) Kool-Aid gels (Kraft Foods Inc KFT) The Checkout Channel (Turner Broadcasting System TWX) Ambi Pur (Sara Lee – SLE)

Thank you, GreyorGray!