Posted on 06/26/2013 7:11:12 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
General Motors and Michigan, Starbucks and Washington, Walmart and Arkansas, Apple and California.
A new map sweeping the Internet entitled the Corporate States of America lists the brands, albeit subjectively, that the creator, Steve Lovelace feels best fits each of the 50 states of the union.
The criteria for each brand were that it is still based in the state of origin and that of course is still in business as of 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Maryland is GEICO.
Well I will be . . . I thought Sinclair disappeared off the face of the earth. I was nuts about that dinosaur when I was a kid! Then they became the Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) . . . and then they were gone.
Why have so many formerly national gas companies become regional? I haven't seen a Gulf station in so long I assumed that BP was them under a new name. Then I learned that Gulf was now restricted to the Northeast. What's up with that? And they used to have a national promotion with Disney, giving away a Disney magazine with so much gas bought. They also had those horseshoes to stick up in the back windshield to symbolize their "no-knock" gas.
How long has it been since anyone has seen a "DX" station?
Hershey is correct.
All I can say is “yummmmm, chocolate!”
I won't even attempt to summarize.
There is no branch in Wisconsin where you can make a deposit. BOA does have a presence through Wells Fargo, which they also acquired; but Wells Fargo cannot accept deposits for BOA. I’ve checked.
OK ...
In fact, I object to the whole thing. Some states may be strongly identified with one or another industry or type of product, but to distill that to a particular corporate brand is IMO utterly false.
CA == Apple Computer??? Really??? Baloney!
Texas == Dr. Pepper???? Really? A bloody soft drink??? Nonsense!
Sorry, Dave ... I think it's all garbage.
He’ll, none of us MDers even knew that stupid Gecko came from around here!
Yes, my Texas friends remind me of this on a regular basis, much as my California friends do with In N Out (which is apparently now also in Texas).
Well how about that. It looks like the Saks brand started in NYC in 1898 and was aqcuqired by Proffitt’s in 1998, who then took the name as their own.
Well, what company does it have?
I might’ve thought it would be in coal, but then I really cannot think of names of any of those mining operations.
They don’t have any branches in Minnesota either. US Bank is based here, and Wells Fargo also has a pretty heavy presence. I wonder if BofA has ever attempted to acquire US Bank to make up for their weak presence in the Upper Midwest; they certainly have a history of expanding by acquisition...
You do realize this is a bit of fun, right?
Yes, I think if you had to name one brand that was most famous that came from PA, it would be Hershey. Not that that company is the most dominant one or biggest in the state. Just that it is a recognizable brand from the Commonwealth.
Keeping in mind that Heinz is associated with Pittsburgh and it would tick off the people from the eastern part of the state if you picked a Pittsburgh brand. (And vice versa for a Philly brand.)
Everyone can agree on Hershey. Neutral turf. Center of state.
Still can’t tell RI, NH or DE.
Oh, look! New Joisey! Does the map say, ‘Butta-Bing’??
GE for Connecticut? Goodness...as far as I know, only corporate is in Fairfield ... nor GE products to speak of are made here.
GE appliances suck! So doesn’t its affliates, NBC and its CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.
CT’s biggest employers are the two casinos. Yeehah.
IMHO Whataburger is underrated. For fast food, their burgers are delicious.
Wisconsin used to have rules against branch banking. When we first moved here, we banked at M & I. There were other M & I banks in town, but they were all separate entities. Sometime in the 1990s that prohibition fell by the wayside, and we have branch banking all over the place now. But we don’t have BOA.
BMO Harris seems to be the big cheese right now. They are out of Canada and have bought up all the independent, local banks. Both my personal bank and my business bank were bought by them about 5 years ago, and they have been a pain in the A** ever since. Now they’ve sold our business loan, and we are having trouble finding anybody to take it over. Everybody in town is furious with them. For one thing, they acquired so many banks that they have several banks on one block in some of the little towns. Naturally, they’ve closed most of them and fired all of the staff. I hate mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry.
But no one knows the casinos outside the region or who aren’t rabid gamblers.
CT has/hd quite a bit of stuff, including gun mfg, and insurance, etc. I’d think The Hartford is another possibility?
I wish I could say my Electric Boat was good but most people don’t know what that is.
How about coal for PA? Or oil? Or, is that too 19th century?
Cream cheese for Philadelphia.
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