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  • The Good Old Days

    You wouldn’t be far off to say that Will Keith Kellogg was lucky to be the dumb one in his family. His brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, was the superintendent

  • The risk of playing it safe

    Mediocre just doesn’t cut it these days. No longer can a brand simply put out a solid, yeomanlike marketing campaign and expect to get away with it. Not

  • Reebok Sponsors NFL Fantasy Football Contest

    Reebok and games manufacturer Midway Sports have signed on as presenting sponsors of the National Football League’s NFL Players Fantasy Football. The

  • Heineken Dangles Headline Hoax

    Building off its ad campaign featuring humorous “news” headlines, White Plains, NY-based Heineken is letting consumers create fake headlines about their

  • Mervyn’s Rocks Back-to-School with Scholastic

    Mervyn’s retail chain, a subsidiary of Target, teams this month with Scholastic Entertainment’s Schoolhouse Rock property for a back-to-school program

  • Toyota Inks First Arena Title Sponsorship

    Toyota last week signed a multiyear deal with the Houston Rockets to name the NBA team’s new arena the Toyota Center. The deal marks the first time Toyota

  • Kyle Petty Teams with Sue Bee Honey

    Racecar driver Kyle Petty has agreed to promote Sue Bee Honey and serve as a spokesperson for a variety of promotional programs. “Our family really uses

  • Cutting through the E-Clutter

    CONSUMERS ARE OVERWHELMED BY E-MAIL Inboxes are stuffed with an average 110 unwanted e-mails a week, an irritation to recipients, who report deleting

  • All Dressed Up

    I wonder who’s wearing the red shirt these days. Minnesota Public Radio put a bunch of red corduroy shirts into members’ closets during a fundraising

  • Philip Morris OK on Retail Promotion

    A federal appeals court last week upheld a 2002 ruling that Philip Morris did not violate antitrust laws on a promotion that paid retailers for prime