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 […]
The beer industry saw gains in both dollar and volume in 2012 after a three-year downturn. Well-marketed new products and slight improvements in the unemployment rate contributed to the beer industry’s overall growth. Although the second half of the year didn’t fare as well from an economic standpoint, the industry was still able to see […]
It is known that when coffee giant Starbucks starts using red paper cups—rather than its de rigueur white paper cups—Christmas is round the corner. For this year’s holiday season, the coffee company has unveiled new designs for its red paper cups. Devoid of the iconic snowmen, ice skaters and other characters, the new ‘Starbucks Holiday […]
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 […]
innocent’s Big Knit campaign turns ten this November, and to celebrate, the behatted smoothies will be found in more retailers than ever before. The smoothie producers have partnered with 12 different customers to pop over a million little woolly hats on innocent smoothie bottles in thousands of stores around the country, with the promise of donating […]
Millions of soccer fans have their eyes on the Mexican national team with hopes of a 2014 World Cup qualification. At the upcoming game against Finland in San Diego, 12 teens will join their heroes on the pitch as official on-field ball handlers. The youngsters, who represent the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San […]
Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) has identified the top ten food trends that will be served on restaurant menus and line supermarket shelves across the U.S. in 2014. With a breadth and depth of culinary experience, the brand strategy, research, innovation, and communications firm has counseled and created foods for companies ranging from organic startups to many of 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 […]