Armed with super powers and a knack for making smart choices, the world’s newest comic book hero is traveling from Florida to schools across the country to help teach children about nutrition. The Florida Department of Citrus, together with Marvel Custom Solutions, unveiled the redesigned Captain Citrus Tuesday at Heroes’ Haven Comics in Tampa. Transformed from life-sized […]
The Subway restaurant chain announced that it will launch NFC-based mobile payments nationwide in the U.S. on October 1st with Softcard, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. Softcard users can use their mobile phones to experience a new way to pay and save at more than 26,000 Subway locations […]
Mars Chocolate North America announced that its new manufacturing facility in Topeka, Kan., has earned LEED Gold certification —an internationally accepted benchmark for designing, constructing and operating green buildings—from the U.S. Green Building Council. The roughly 500,000-square-foot facility, which opened in March, produces M&M’s Brand Candies and Snickers Bars. This accolade represents an additional LEED […]
Thorntons is to launch two block tablet bars into the competitive UK chocolate market in October, in a move that it claims heralds an “exciting new phase” in the brand’s development. The chocolate brand is adding two 100g bars, Fudge Chocolate Bar and Special Toffee Milk Chocolate – to tap into the £3.9bn chocolate market […]
A new tinned seafood restaurant in London’s Soho is opening this week, with designs by AL_A which take ‘the tin as the hero’. The temporary space, named Tincan, will be operating for six months. AL_A created all interior and graphic designs, inspired by its work designing a new Lisbon-based cultural centre, where it found a […]
Mrs. Fields Famous Brands (“Mrs. Fields”) and Interbake Foods (the company responsible for the manufacture and sale of Mrs. Fields branded pre-packaged cookies sold at retailers throughout North America) kicked off “Mrs. Fields Moments,” a national campaign in the U.S.A, inspiring busy cookie lovers to slow down and enjoy a cookie moment with loved ones. […]
Bel UK is tapping into the fast-growing food-to-go market this autumn with the launch of Mini Babybel Single – an individually wrapped and barcoded portion of the cheese snack in shelf-ready packaging, set to boost sandwich fixture sales for retailers. With more than 50% of Mini Babybel consumption already coming from lunch out of the […]
Dunkin’ Donuts, one of the world’s leading baked goods and coffee chains, is continuing its rapid development across India with its master franchisee, Jubilant FoodWorks, where it’s on track to meet its previously announced development target of 500 Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants over the long-term. Since signing its master franchise agreement with Jubilant FoodWorks in 2011, […]
Lifestyle website Inhabitat recently introduced us to “the world’s smartest pizza box”—the “GreenBox” is an “eco-friendly, easy-to-use, transforming design” that improves upon the conventional, inefficient pizza box. Designed by the late William Walsh after a series of experimentation, the GreenBox is a patented design that is made of 100% recycled materials—it is now available in […]
Burger King Japan has announced its latest addition to the menu—a beef burger with black buns, cheese and sauce. The black buns and cheese of the burger are actually made with bamboo charcoal and the sauce is mixed with squid ink to create the color. There are two types of black burgers, the ‘Black Pearl’ […]