Wal-Mart will host “Fresh Start for Spring” events this weekend in 1,000 stores with six sponsoring brands: Weight Watchers, Suave, Nature Made, Mott’s, Sunkist and WD-40.
The April 23 blitz is organized by ALL YOU magazine, published by Time, Inc. and sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. ALL YOU will follow up with a daylong in-store push in August, timed for back-to-school, and is setting its calendar for 2007. Its past in-store events have spurred double-digit sales increases for sponsoring brands on event day.
Each category-exclusive sponsor will demo and sample a single brand: Weight Watchers (yogurt), Suave (Advanced Therapy lotion), Nature Made (chewable Vitamin C), Mott’s (Mott’s Plus Light Juice), Sunkist (Almond Accents and pistachios) and WD-40 (No Mess Pen).
Two brand ambassadors in each store will represent each brand and distribute ALL YOU’s 48-page Your Fresh Start for Spring Companion Guide, with promotional pages from sponsors and stories on nutrition, beauty and finance. WalMart.com lists participating store locations.
ALL YOU handles the event with an assist from USM&P, Torrance, CA.
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