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Weight-loss Instructor Drops Suit Against My Coke Rewards
The weight-loss instructor who filed a lawsuit several weeks ago against the Coca-Cola Co. claiming that its popular My Coke Rewards program might prompt kids to drink so much soda that they could die or at the very least become obese, has dropped the suit.
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Alltel Spin Off Launches with Green Tour
A month after Alltel Corp. spun off its landline business merging it with Valor Communications Group Inc. and forming the new entity, Windstream Communications, the new company has launched a Green Truck Tour in a 33-market grassroots effort to introduce its services to consumers.
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Beaches Get ‘Wicked’ with Premiums, Buzz
Something wicked is brewing on New York and New Jersey beaches. In an effort to generate buzz around the Broadway hit Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz, brand ambassadors are hitting the sand to dole out Wicked-branded premiums. …
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Brands Flock to USA Basketball with Sponsorships
Chevrolet, Coca-Cola Co., McDonald’s Corp., PepsiCo’s Gatorade and Molten Worldwide Distributing have teamed up with USA Basketball the governing body for men’s and women’s basketball in the U.S., to sponsor exhibition games, special events and …
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Melitta Readies Campus Tour
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 …
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Cotton Inc. Hosts Mall ‘Camp’
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 …
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‘truth’ Brings Warped Tour to TV
Anti-tobacco campaign “truth” has partnered with music network Fuse for a documentary on Vans Warped Tour 2006, with a starring role for truth’s marketing tour team. One of truth’s bright-orange “truth trucks” travels with the Warped Tour as part of the …
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Ford Taps Music Artists for Promos
Ford Motor Co. is tapping the popularity of first-season American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson and country music star Toby Keith by sponsoring the artists’ concert series and unleashing promotions to drive concertgoers to the brand. Dearborn, MI-based …
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NBA Courts Europe with Basket Jam
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is taking its hoop action and marketing partners Champion, Nike, FootLocker, EA Sport, Spalding and Sprite to eight cities in four European countries in its first-ever NBA Basket Jam, a basketball festival that features interactive basketball games and entertainment activities.
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Kissables Looks for On-Air Jinglers
Hershey’s Kissables is hitting the airways with a contest asking consumers to call into local radio stations and sing the Kissables jingle.