Melitta USA takes its new single-serve coffeemaker to college this fall with a 36-campus tour. Melitta will tout its Ready, Set, Joe One-Cup coffeemaker with a sampling program slated to reach 300,000 students. Sample packs include a Ready, Set, Joe ...
MasterCard and retailer Bed Bath & Beyond are courting college students with a back-to-school sweeps dangling a grand-prize $100,000 for tuition. The 2006 MasterCard Back to College Sweepstakes with Bed Bath & Beyond gives shoppers one automatic entry ...
Celebrities and athletes are making their way to New York City streets today to greet their loyal fans, only not in person: Celebrities will be attending via blog. Online destination ChatWithAStar.com is rolling out a one-of-a-kind Blogmobile in which ...
(Multichannel Merchant) The little girls who arrive at American Girl Place dressed like the dolls they hold in their arms show what's possible when merchants take an experiential approach to retailing, experts say.
Merger activity is positively frantic—hundreds are initiated each week. But mergers can too often be minefields. McKinsey & Co. claims that nearly 80% of mergers don't earn back the costs of the deal itself. Other studies show that the average merger has a 50% chance of resulting in reduced productivity or profit.
You may have heard the buzz. There is a new term in town: PR 2.0. Simply put, PR 2.0 is how public relations integrates with the technology-heavy world of today’s business.
La Quinta hotels are out with a new online-only campaign dangling an instant-win game to boost brand awareness and loyalty. The Irving, TX-based hotel chain is using the backdrop of a U.S. map showing La Quinta locations to tout its growth, and is ...
Cotton Inc. and Seventeen Magazine are wrapping up a weeklong event that sent 50 high schoolers to camp at their local mall. “Cotton’s Fashion Camp” runs through Aug. 5 at General Growth Properties’ upscale Galleria Dallas mall, with seminars conducted ...
Mentos maker Perfetti Van Melle USA this week launched a contest that capitalizes on a pop-culture fad that could shoot brand awareness sky-high. Someone, somewhere figured out that dropping a Mentos mint into a 2-liter bottle of pop makes the beverage ...
Cingular Wireless has dialed up a sweepstakes to support its sponsorship of NASCAR car No. 31, driven by Jeff Burton of Richard Childress Racing. Cingular's Race Talk sweeps is part of the wireless company's on-air polling program that airs through ...
