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Under Armour logo prominently displayed on athletic apparel, symbolizing market challenges

Under Armour Still Struggling to Hold Its Own

After a “come from nowhere” popularity surge, athletic wear brand Under Armour is struggling to maintain market share. Quarterly sales fell again, and they fell even worse than expected. Never a good look. This news caus

Legoland New York amusement park: colorful rides and attractions await visitors

Legoland Hoping to Build Business in the Empire State

When families think of theme park vacations, brands that tend to come to mind include Disney, Seaworld, Universal, and Six Flags. The folks at Legoland hope to <a href=" https://ronntorossian.com/vw-crisis-pr\&q

Dow Jones Industrial Average ticker board displays stock market trends

Is GE Getting Booted Out of the DOW?

General Electric is not having a good year. The company has been down of late, with stocks falling and earnings reports landing even lower than many people expected. By the numbers GE has dropped more than 30 percent, ma

A Holden Commodore final edition on Australia's last car production line

Australia Stops Making Cars

The automotive manufacturing industry Down Under is done. At least for now, Australia is finished with making cars at home. General Motors finished the last vehicle about a week ago at its Holden facility, ending what ha

Barrels of American wine aging in a cellar, awaiting an uncertain economy

American Wine Industry Faces Major Challenge

The tragic wildfires in the Pacific Northwest have continued to move south, and now they are ravaging America’s most beloved wine country, Napa Valley. That means the American wine industry is struggling to find a way t

General Electric: Executives in suits walk on water, without special financial privileges

GE making waves by removing executive perks

Usually, when a brand’s top executives are in the news related to executive perks, the average reader will not be inclined to be happy about the direction of that story. This is not the case with General Electric, howeve

Bowe Bergdahl in army uniform, facing consequences for desertion

Bergdahl expected to offer “guilty” plea

Recently, the Associated Press announced that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl plans to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. This may seem like the right move for Bergdahl, who may well be the most universa

A community meeting discussing a seal controversy in a New York village by the sea

NY Village Responds to Seal Controversy

Sometimes, all it takes to create a PR crisis is time. Things change, people forget, and the world moves on. Then, a new generation sees something, perhaps for the first time, and finds a message entirely different than

A large group of diverse zombie extras on set, walking together through a city

The Walking Dead at 100

The Walking Dead started as a long-running comic book. More grisly and darker than the capes and tights crowd, but fans still loved it. As more issues came out, more and more people jumped on the bandwagon, turning The W

Cassidy and Kimmel debate healthcare policy on a television show, highlighting their disagreements

Cassidy and Kimmel Spare Over Health Care

It’s not often senators and comedians go head to head in public debates, but things are changing. After late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel delivered a stinging rant about the Republican-designed health care bill, Senator Bi

Children's toys, games, and playthings on a store shelf at Toys R Us

Toys R Us Files Bankruptcy in Bid to Survive

Toys R Us has a load of debt. Serious debt. The kind of debt that forces you to make $400 million in interest payments alone every year. And that has the toy company seeking bankruptcy protection. The debt stems from th

NASA engineer examining spacecraft model, planning future deep space missions

NASA After Cassini, What Happens Next?

For nearly two decades, NASA scientists have been sharing the wonders of Cassini. The $3.26 billion space mission was launched in October 1997 with a mission to explore Saturn. That mission, according to the scientists m