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Citi is sponsoring the Rolling Stones’ 50 & Counting tour, offering experiences celebrating the band’s decades-long contribution to the music industry and to the rock ‘n’ roll world. The tour kicked off May 2 in Los Angeles and wraps June 24 in Washington, D.C.

To make new connections with the college crowd, Sperry Top-Sider in April brought its signature boat shoes to West Coast college campuses with its Vacationland College Tour.

In an effort to educate plumbers, contractors, remodelers and interior designers on its toilet-flushing technologies and innovation, Kohler in March launched the “Trust the Flush” mobile tour, a custom motor coach that houses a replica of its toilet test lab at company headquarters in Wisconsin. “We can hit double or triple the number of people by going on the road, versus flying them to our headquarters and bringing them through the lab,” Jennifer Nye, channel manager, wholesale at Kohler, told Buzz. She said the tour will reach 36,000 people this year.

With a strategy usually reserved for broadcast and cable networks—not movie theaters—NCM Media Networks on May 15 held an upfront presentation dubbed “The Bigger Picture” for more than 700 media buyers and planners, brand managers and promotion agencies during New York City’s Upfront Week. NCM is an advertising network of more than 19,000 screens in movie theaters.

Throughout the month of May, New York State-based Friendship Dairies has been rolling out the cottage cheese wagon for consumers in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania—a first-time foray into the event marketing space for the brand.  The tour, known as the Fit to Go Mobile Mixer Tour, is designed to show off the versatility of Friendship’s cottage cheese, offer consumers recipes and differentiate the brand’s products from its competitors’ at Chobani and Daisy, which have been attempting to grab market share away from Friendship.