Kellogg’s Special K Ad Canned After PepsiCo Complaint

Kellogg’s Special K Ad Canned After PepsiCo Complaint

A TV ad for Kellogg’s Special K Multi Grain Porridge has been banned by the advertising watchdog after it drew 15 complaints, including one from FMCG giant PepsiCo, over claims it contained 30 per cent less fat than other porridges. Kellogg argued that according to the EC Regulation on nutrition and health claims, marketers are […]

JWT Vietnam Creates Animation Franchise to Launch New Brand For IDP

JWT Vietnam Creates Animation Franchise to Launch New Brand For IDP

To launch a new children’s ready-to-drink dairy brand for IDP, JWT Vietnam has created an animation based franchise that includes an ongoing epic story, master-plot, characters, trailers, TVCs, a comic strip series, school and beach activations, and even a planned short movie. IDP’s large-scale move into animation-based branded content steps away from the conventional above-the-line […]

Japanese Clinch Ribena & Lucozade for £1.35bn from GSK

Japanese Clinch Ribena & Lucozade for £1.35bn from GSK

Ribena and Lucozade have been sold to Suntory Beverage & Food for £1.3bn — the price of 2.3 billion cartons of the blackcurrant drink. GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, put the drinks up for sale in February as part of chief executive Sir Andrew Witty’s push on healthcare brands and vaccines. Private equity firms including Blackstone and […]

Smirnoff Readies Real-time Social Hub

Smirnoff Readies Real-time Social Hub

Smirnoff is developing an online app that allows fans to direct personalised videos of their nights-outs using content from all their social media channels. The ‘Mixhibit’ app, which is currently being trialled, incorporates selected photos, tweets and check-ins into a video set to a custom soundtrack. Users will be able to share videos through social […]