For those of you who did not read Time’s piece on Wal-Mart’s latest PR goof, infiltrating union meetings Mata Hari style is just not cool. With allegations of bribing Mexican officials in the breeze, apparently Sam Walton’s dream may just be turning into a public nightmare. Is this a “worst
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?
Yahoo wants to force Facebook to license 10 to 20 patents for different technologies that include advertising, social networking, messaging and website customization.
Keith Zakheim, president of Beckerman PR, threatened to fire any employees who do not replace the milk after they finish it. Is he right, wrong? What would you do in his position?
Tiger Woods was dropped by TAG-Heuer, and the media is not on the golfer’s side either. Fans are more worried about new tournament-winning golfers like Adam Scott nowadays. Tiger is losing his touch, and soon, he will see his last sponsor gone. Unless… he plays the PR game right.
The last recall, announced July 28, deals with one product lot (60,912 bottles) of TYLENOL Extra Strength Caplets, 225 count bottles, distributed in the U.S.
While other countries struggle to attract foreigners and boost tourism, Denmark is somehow trying to alienate its own citizens.
The web commemorated the Challenger disaster today as well, with people from all over the world searching for information on the matter. History is kept alive within many social media hubs.
Some Bank of America customers trying to access their online and mobile accounts were unable to get through today, a website outage that resembles so much a similar issue last January.
Proper implementation of marketing and management in these far more than shaky economic times can actually cause the nature of the recession to work in your favor.
