Heineken announced the extension of its sponsorship with the UEFA Champions League. The new agreement, means that Heineken the leading international, premium beer brand will continue as an official partner of the world’s most prestigious club football competition up to and including the 2017 / 2018 season. Heineken has been an integral partner of the UEFA […]
Australian wine brand, Jacob’s Creek, has launched a smartphone app to give customers rewards if they scan their shopping receipts. Entitled the “Premium Drinks App”, Jacob’s Creek said the promotion has been designed to revolutionise the way in which customers can redeem promotional offers on the go, whatever their location. “The launch of the Premium […]
Elmwood has created new designs for Morrisons’ own-brand wine ranges, aiming ‘to transform the supermarket in to a true wine destination’. Elmwood has previously worked with Morrisons on projects including packaging for the Just for Kids readymeals range, branding the Little Big baby range and creating the identity for the Market Street offer. The project […]
Diageo has admitted a recent Guinness ad campaign, which saw it take over all three ad breaks during Saturday night’s (26 October) Jonathan Ross Show, failed to live up to the brand’s legacy of iconic marketing after it was criticised by viewers for being “painful” and “contrived”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39fvn6O0JA#t=51 The media buy, a first for the […]
Each year Rhuby Liqueur holds a female cocktail competition called Pink Your Drink to support women in the industry and breast cancer awareness. The competition was founded by Ylva Binder and introduced in 2012 at the London Cocktail week and this year Rhuby Liqueur held it in Stockholm Sweden. During the month of October the Liqueur brand organized […]
NOW TV and Carling are celebrating their partnership offering free Sky Sports Day Passes on special packs of Carling by challenging football fans round the country to come up with their best football banter in order to win prizes. The people who come up with the best tweets using the hashtag #FootballBanter can win a […]
Heineken-owned super premium packaged beer Sol is installing permanent branded areas in flagship London bars as part of its ongoing below-the-line activity to celebrate the new ‘Espiritu Libre’ proposition. The initiative, led by agency Space, is designed to bring the new brand positioning to life and generate trial and visibility for the product, targeting its […]
Washington State Wine launched The Recommendeuer, a national marketing campaign featuring an iPad app that pairs wine with a healthy dose of humor and offers an in-depth, interactive regional wine education. Best known for his improvisational performances in “Whose Line is It Anyway?” actor and comedian Greg Proops dons a plaid suit and grabs a […]
Spirits may be responsible for mayhem this All Hallows’ Eve, but they are likely to be of the man-made kind. Data on individuals monitored every 30 minutes for alcohol consumption shows drinking increases in general during Halloween, and that increase accelerates as the holiday falls closer to the weekend. Drinking violations for criminal offenders sentenced […]
DQ Vodka has been named the Luxury Brand of the Year in Poland. DQ, which stands for Distilled Quality, is a Swedish super premium vodka. The bottle’s nine parts are assembled by hand in Sweden. The aluminum rod, placed in the middle of the bottle, is made in the same UK factory that produces Bentley’s […]