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Walmart Stages a Musical at its Annual Shareholders Meeting
You might remember the dramatic goings-on in Bentonville last year, the agency hirings and firings, and top marketers coming and going. Yes, 2006 pulled in all of the elements of comedy and tragedy. But before that news broke, Walmart had embraced another aspect of the theater: the musical. Walmart was looking for a way to...
Adidas’ Sales Meeting Takes Cues from the NBA
Four hundred fifty adidas North American sales and product-marketing staff gathered at the Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center for a meeting aimed at delivering the company’s strategic message in a way that was big on substance and light on fluff. As part of that challenge, adidas wanted to inspire attendees to challenge the status quo....
IBM Hosts a 19K-Person Town Hall Meeting in India
It was IBM’s largest live event ever: a town-hall meeting in India that brought together 19,000 people. In addition to bringing in an A-list speaker roster that included India’s President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and IBM ceo Sam Palmisano, the company linked four separate groups of attendees together for the daylong event—10,000 at the host facility...
Dos Equis Mixes Fire Breathers with Sampling in Miami
As if Miami isn’t hot enough, the temperature reached new heights when Dos Equis tapped into the city’s annual 24/7 week-long Winter Music Conference to promote its imported Mexican beer and “Mexicool,” its theme for 2006. Dos Equis transformed the historic National Hotel on Ocean Drive with its famous pool and sand lounge into a...