Industry: Retail & Apparel

When you’re numero uno on the Fortune 500 list, your annual shareholder’s meeting had better be pretty friggin’ good. This year, Wal-Mart delivered. Big W skipped the elaborate Broadway-style musical numbers and instead tried a new approach to its mission–critical annual meeting. We called it “Funny bones, heartstrings and rock stars.” They, um, didn’t call […]

The official unveiling of StarCraft II by Blizzard Entertainment needed to live up to the excitement surrounding its much-anticipated release. At the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, the stage was set for a memorable debut. The event was designed like an indoor amusement park with different themed areas set up for gamers to explore. The StarCraft […]

For its Guitar Hero III Launch, Best Buy was thinking big. From a charity component and midnight openings to a VIP party—it was on. The festivities were kicked off with midnight openings at stores across the country, giving consumers a chance to play the game on custom kiosks prior to release. The midnight opening at the […]

The fans were already lined up at 5 a.m., waiting in sweaty anticipation for the stroke of midnight when they could be the first to get their hands on the last installment in the Halo trilogy, Halo 3. What hard-core fans didn’t know (other than what life was like outside their parents’ basement) is that […]

When Sony Europe wanted to get the word out about PlayStation 3, which just launched in Europe, and its Blu-ray Disc, SLR cameras and Bravia TVs, it tuned in to the ultimate word-of-mouth guys—journalists, whose opinions and articles can make or break a company’s reputation. So, it invited 400 technical and lifestyle writers from 24 […]