Promotion

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  Moving Closer to Muslims During Ramadan

  Saffron Road Foods launched one year ago at Whole Foods Market, a good location for a line of halal food products. The brand made its debut in August during the month of Ramadan, the holiest time period for Muslims and in the ensuring year its products proved successful items on store shelves. This month, as Ramandan is again underway Saffron Road is staging its first promotion co-produced at about 90% of Whole Foods markets nationwide.

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  Ben & Jerry’s Mixes Sweets & Tweets

  At the Vermont headquarters of Ben & Jerry’s, we’re always looking for the next fun and funky thing. Whether it’s a flavor with late night’s Jimmy Fallon or a quick turn-around response to a timely opportunity like the legalization of gay marriage. While we hear all the time that “there are no new ideas” and that every marketing effort has been done before—we refuse to believe it. And that is how we came up with a new twist on Twitter to support our commitment to Fair Trade.

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  Mobilizing Mobile Shoppers: A Strategy Beyond Coupons

  For retailers, mobile technology is providing new strategic opportunities to overcome problems associated with traditional loyalty programs – but there’s more to mobile loyalty than offering coupons

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  Back in the Ring: WWE and 7-Eleven

  When you’re running a promotion for three consecutive years, it’s got to incorporate some freshness. And that is the plan for WWE and 7-Eleven as the convenience stores began a month-long promotion.

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  Adding a One-of-a-Kind Offer to Impress Loyalists

  Chase Card Services and British Airways are adding some layers to their loyalty program to keep pace with card members expectations.

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  News Brief: WWE and 7-Eleven

  WWE and 7-ELEVEN: are underway with their third consecutive summer promotion. During the month of August, customers can purchase WWE collectible Slurpee and Super Big Gulp cups and straws highlighting some of WWE’s biggest stars, including
  John Cena, The Rock and The Miz. People who buy a
  Slurpee beverage and a TWIX candy bar can enter a sweepstakes to win an all-expenses-paid, VIP trip to WrestleMania XXVIII to be held at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami on April 1, 2012.

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  How Nivea Designed its Mega Pop-Up, Plus the Rihanna Connection

  Nivea just wrapped a weeklong pop-up event in Vanderbilt Hall in New York’s Grand Central Station.

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  Ocean Spray SVP on the Brand’s Summer Tour: Q&A

  Ocean Spray is on tour this summer, sampling its products at fairs, festivals and other special events where consumers gather. Millions of samples are being distributed and the brand has designed a number of ways to directly interact with consumers.

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  Why Black Friday Should Merit Attention Throughout the Year

  Black Friday is coming. That Friday before Thanksgiving has been a boon for retailers, jumpstarting the holiday shopping season by offering door-buster deals starting in the wee hours of the morning to get consumers in a buying mood that hopefully lasts through the New Year. But retailers, eager to replay the day and generate sales, are watering down its effects by marketing and using the term, and its connotation at other times of the year.

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  AmEx Deals Go Mobile, Social with Foursquare and Facebook Links

  In recent months, credit card issuers have gotten much more proactive about hooking their card members up with local deals and discounts. AmEx, started the trend with a pilot partnership with Foursquare last March at the South by Southwest Festival. Now it has taken that program national.