Talk:Brookstone

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Clearly written by a Brookstone employee or copied from official company materials.

edited to remove biased material

Frog-o-sphere
I added this sub-chapter. But, the controversy section now takes up around half of the article from this sub-chapter addition. I have found other info on Brookstone to add to the pre-chapters section (top) that will lengthen the article and reduce the dominance of the controversy section. I will add this content as soon as I can gather it up and effectively add it to the article. Opinions? Merry x-mas, Wikipedians. 2010 is coming! NoFlyingCars (talk) 10:04, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I think this is incredibly unimportant and unencyclopedic. Wikipedia should not be a place where every single PETA complaint is entered and documented.  I suggest a vote for removal.  Further the AOL links for the Peter Vidala article are no longer working. 141.54.138.170 (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

can we get some links please? the wording in the "controversy" section makes no sense. & links again would be very helpful aha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.196.43 (talk) 23:17, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Tom Via
TOM VIA President & Chief Executive Officer

Tom Via has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Brookstone Inc. since December 1, 2014. Prior to Brookstone, Mr. Via spent 12 years at Toys“R”Us, most recently as its Senior Vice President for Babies“R”Us in the U.S., where he was responsible for leading the company’s juvenile product growth strategy and served on the Global Commercial Committee. From 2010 to 2013 he was Managing Director (President) of Toys“R”Us, Australia, where he was the senior executive responsible for all operations and business activities for the company’s Toys“R”Us and Babies“R”Us brands. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Toys“R”Us, Canada, where he was responsible for leading all Merchandising, Marketing, Ecommerce and Store Planning activities for the Canada division. Mr. Via helped direct the expansion of the Toys“R”Us and Babies“R”Us integrated store format in Canada, as well as the launch of Toysrus.ca. Prior to joining Toys“R”Us, Mr. Via held merchandising positions at Wal-Mart (Canada), Payless ShoeSource, Kmart, Hills Department Stores, Fishers Big Wheel Stores, Gold Circle Stores and Adam, Meldrum and Anderson Department Stores. Mr. Via is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a degree in Business Administration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.146.130 (talk) 19:52, 30 July 2015 (UTC)