Industry: Consumer Package Goods—Grocery

Upscale? Nope. Trendy? Hardly. The genius of the Dye Hard vehicle was in its budget-beating simplicity. It would have been so easy to order a super-dooper, high-tech machine to herald the introduction of five new flavors, but Snapple took the road less traveled (actually they took the road traveled about 10 years ago) when it […]

Target Corp. went all out last fall to announce the grand reopening of its Chicago store when it staged a vertical fashion show featuring models repelling down a catwalk created on the side of the 11-story building. The effort began with an engineering study conducted by GMR and Munich, Germany-based alpine and bungee event expert […]

If you think the name of Forkless Gourmet’s award-wining mobile vehicle sounds like a combination of Suzanne Somers and Ron Popeil infomercial products, well, you’re not alone. But Forkless Gourmet used its Bun Meal Mobile to spread the word about its frozen ethnic-meal-in-a-bun line and support retail distribution. The bright red Bun Mobile sported a […]

Pepsi-Cola Co. broke from the typical under-the-cap sweeps for Aquafina last summer when it sent street teams into 83 markets to award a collective 40,000 cash prizes to consumers spotted with its new Aquafina Essentials. “Aquafina Spotter Crews,” assisted by a pair of branded Spotter Blimps, scoured top markets and handed out prizes ranging from […]

The Copa Coca-Cola program debuted in Mexico in 1998 as a youth soccer tournament for teens living in 150 small towns. Popularity surged, and the program was expanded to other countries. The U.S. Copa program began in 2000 with a test in Texas. In 2001, the tournament took shape in New York and Chicago before […]