Event Marketer

The New York City-based LittleMissMatched brand which started selling packs of three miss-matched socks four years ago has since branched into offering other apparel.

To create brand awareness collect data and connect with its customers face-to-face the brand recently went guerrilla. It hit the streets to interact with its core customer: the self-expressive New Yorker that identifies with the brand’s unconventional style.

L’Oréal Paris activated The Color Space a 5 000 square-foot interactive beauty pavilion at the Minnesota State Fair from Aug.21-Sept. 1. The red-carpeted pavilion provided an environment for men and women to learn about the latest beauty trends and products and brought a beauty experience to fair attendees across all categories—cosmetics skincare haircare and haircolor.

Comcast’s Style network is back on tour with its 34-foot “Style Beauty Bus ” offering free mini-makeovers to females in 10 cities from August through November. This season the tour includes a new focus on the network’s partners bringing its busload of beauty to call centers and other affiliate offices. The bus tour now in its third year also will reach women at shopping malls with services provided by beauty professionals from Garnier Fructis and Maybelline New York.

There are no Target stores in Manhattan (sigh) but from Sept. 12 to Sept. 15 New Yorkers could get first dibs on many of the retailer’s newest home fashion and beauty collections at one of four temporary retail shops called Bullseye Bodegas.

To support the launch of its new Guiding Stars Nutrition Navigation System Food Lion and Bloom supermarkets launched a five-market mobile marketing tour. The Guiding Stars program assigns one two or three stars to products in its stores giving consumers an easy way to select food based on its nutritional qualities. (One star is good two is better and three is best.) The program kicked off at 61 Bloom Supermarkets in June and at 1 200 Food Lion stores in July.