Around this time last year, the business website 24/7 Wall Street.com issued their annual prognostication about brands that would go the way of the dodo over the forthcoming year, as I mentioned here. Of the ten brands listed last year, all of them are still around today, even poor beleaguered Blockbuster Video, although that company was sold at auction for pennies on the dollar a few months ago. The remaining Blockbuster stores will indeed go away soon, and T-Mobile is being Borg’d by AT&T and will disappear sometime next year, but all in all the predictions didn’t turn out quite as well (or as badly, depending on your point of view) as one might have thought.
Here’s this year’s list, which includes Sony Pictures and Sony Ericksson, Sears, and the one one slam-dunk on the list, Saab (they announced last week that they could no longer meet payroll, which means they’re pretty much kaput). Some other obvious ones like Nokia somehow didn’t make the list.
Well, Paul the Octopus is dead now, so nothing makes sense anymore and who knows what the future will bring.
