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10 Brands That Will Disappear In 2013

Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important American brands that it predicts will disappear within a year. The 10 brands we may not see in the new year:

1. American Airlines
2. Talbots
3. Current TV
4. Research In Motion
5. Pacific Sunwear
6. Suzuki
7. Salon.com
8. The Oakland Raiders
9. MetroPCS
10. Avon   

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Best Selling Brands Of All Time

Some products sell well when first introduced. Many more fail miserably. Very few of them sell so well that they fundamentally impact American culture. This is 24/7 Wall St.’s list of 10 products that did just that:

1. Rubik’s Cube

350 million units

2. iPhone

250 million units

3. Harry Potter

450 million units

4. Michael Jackson “Thriller”

110 million units

5. Mario Franchise

262 million units

6. iPad

67 million units

7. “Star Wars”

$4.54 billion in ticket sales

8. Toyota Corolla

39 million cars

9. Lipitor

$125 billion revenue

10. PlayStation

300+ million units