Marketers plan to make hay with the big bucks spent on each Super Bowl ad this Sunday by extending the creative well beyond Game Day. With spots costing an average $2.4 million, plans call for spreading the message across multiple channels, including iPods and cell phones.
M&Ms is sending Red and Yellow to the Oscars again this year. The candy brand is sponsoring a slate of Oscar-themed promotions with Loews Theaters, Blockbuster and Ralphs supermarkets....
Taking a lead from CPG companies, footwear and apparel company Timberland plans to roll out new packaging that will include a "nutrition label" detailing how and where the product was manufactured and its impact on the environment.
Procter & Gamble is spending a reported $6 million for two Super Bowl ads to show off its new Gillette Fusion five-blade razors....
Jones Soda Co. is out with packaging designed specifically to boost sales around Valentine's Day. The red and pink limited-edition pack includes two bottles of "Love Potion No. 6" or specially flavored Jones soda lip balm, a CD samplers of songs by Sony BMG recording artists and a coupon book for two free bottles of…
Frito-Lay has begun a yearlong campaign supporting SunChips' sponsorship of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. SunChips has signed as the official sponsor of Komen's Race for the Cure Series National Volunteer Recognition Program. The brand ...
The folks behind 5 A Day are bringing Curious George to 2,000 Wal-Mart stores next month. The Produce for Better Health Foundation teams with Wal-Mart Stores for an in-store promotion pegged to the Feb. 10 premiere of Universal Studios' animated film ...
Marketing giant Valassis Communications is claiming that its top competitor is using brutal images of beatings from an Al Capone flick as one way to gain an unfair advantage in the sale of both newspaper FSIs and in-store ads and promotions. The ...
Supervalu and CVS face exponential growth with Supervalu's $17.4 billion purchase of Albertsons. Wholesaler Supervalu says it will triple its retail operations to 2,656 stores with an estimated $44 billion in revenues by adding the 1,124 stores in ...
An investor group will buy sporting goods retailer The Sports Authority for $1.3 billion and take the 398-store chain private. The group, led by Green Equity Investors IV (an affiliate of Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners), is expected to keep ...
