Consumer PR

Heineken

HEINEKEN USA Tags Edelman for Dos Equis

HEINEKEN USA has just announced selecting Edelman as their public relations agency of record (AOR) for Corporate Communications and their Dos Equis brand. According to the news, Edelman’s responsibilities for both is to include PR campaigning, reputation management, employee engagement counseling, and media relations activities.

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Sesame Street Coming to LeapFrog LeapPad Tablet

LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Sesame Workshop to bring Sesame Street to the LeapPad learning tablet for children. Starting in June, Sesame Street will be available for purchase from the LeapFrog App Center. Sesame Workshop is the non-profit education organization behind Sesame

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nutella

Nutella and KFC Face Costly PR Nightmares

Nutella is advertised as a healthy food, and a KFC Twister wrap allegedly poisoned with salmonella a seven-year old girl in Australia in 2005. Both companies lost enormous sums in law-suits, yet KFC intends to appeal, while Nutella agrees to settle. What are the PR impacts for both companies?

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Kraft Foods

Kraft’s New Mondelez Naming Goof in Russian

Mondelez sounds like an interesting name, with “monde” – “world” in French – and delez as “delish”, but when it comes to the Russian language there is a bad association, the name sounding similar to a word that describes an oral sex act. The Russian term is manda and it

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Fresh & Easy California Jobs & Produce?

Reading through press releases this morning, I came across in interesting one from Tesco’s Fresh & Easy brand in the US. The UK retail giant’s local grocery store charm, now takes on a bit of corporate hyperbole via press release. An upscale grocery store announces a relaunch of their careers

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