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brand, sold exclusively at Goody's stores. Sales of Duck Head branded clothing totaled more than $ 97 million in 2004, the last year when Goody's was a publicly traded company required to disclose financial information.
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rejected their application because the term was in general use. They registered the trademark "Duck Head" instead. The company operated into the late 20th century, producing work clothing such as
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magazine to observe some years later: "For a preppy southern college guy in the 1980s, Duck Head
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known as "duck", and the brothers began making work pants and shirts out of the strong material. Their company became known as the
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logo to a bright yellow tag on the back of the pants, and went on the road to sell them, visiting first the
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