B-to-C Events

When it comes to hosting high-end hospitality events, most brands think you have to go big or go home. But with a test program in its South Florida market, Audi is working on a new formula that still goes big—in style and boldness—but stays refined and focused when it comes to generating measureable results.

Target this fall is promoting the redesign of its beauty department with a mobile pop-up tour where consumers receive touch-ups and make-up tips, free samples and coupons good toward product purchases. The revamped beauty departments received improved lighting, testers and other shopping tools as part of a $1 billion remodeling project across the stores that was announced last year.

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Late-night disco parties. Packed resume seminars. High-tech virtual experiences. The over-50 set doesn’t look like it used to, Sparky. Baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are not only looking younger and living longer, they’re working well into their retirement years, embracing modern technology and redefining what it means to age gracefully.

It all started on Facebook, and ended in Granby, CO, at the C Lazy U ranch from Aug. 26 to 28, where Dial for Men created Camp Dirt, a weekend of fun and filth designed to exemplify the brand’s mission inviting men to “Get your dirt on. We'll get it off.” The social media-driven sweepstakes invited men to enter on the brand’s page for a chance to compete for a $10,000 prize for the dirtiest camper.