Chanel N°5 commercial 2009, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet; featuring Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport traveling with the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul; accompanied by Billie Holiday's »I'm a Fool to Want You«, is the best fashion and beauty commercial of the year.
Groupon garners another $30 million in investment without even begging, and it is no wonder, the company has felt the pulse of digital collective bargaining. It remains to be seen how the big online players like Amazon will react. Groupon's stock will be better evaluated after this round of funding, news, and the holiday season sink in.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed that some peanut butter producers knowingly made shipments of salmonella contaminated product during 2007 and 2008. Do the consumers still trust the industry?
Walmart has announced a financial plan to help their small and medium sized clothing suppliers. This kind gesture will send loans to Wells Fargo and Citigroup. What else is going on here? With all the company's competitors on the ropes, has Walmart come up with another greedy plan to capitalize on other people's misfortune? Or, has is Walmart, and companies like it, part of the cause of all this economic suffering? We had better watch their every move.
Just when you thought the economy was at zero growth, Walmart expands their market to the dead. News today reveals that the company will now offer caskets, urns, and even funeral jewelry to their valued customers.
“While cereal can be a healthy and convenient breakfast for children, this study shows that cereal companies are targeting children with their least healthy products. Clearly there’s a lot of room for improvement.” - Jim Marks, MD, MPH, senior vice president and director of the Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
7-Eleven's new PR campaign is hot, but it's missing out market points because it does not engage the social media. What is Ketchum, the PR firm supporting 7-Eleven, waiting for?
Daimler's Mercedes Benz may be in be trouble. Conflicting sales numbers and inadvisable or failed deals spotlight a company struggling to get its feet back under it. In a failing economy, amid losses of jobs everywhere, can Mercedes afford to depart from their core expertise? From failed customer support to failed partnerships Daimler may need to look into new leadership rather than new markets like China.
This is one of those unfortunate situations when bad PR is better than no PR. Almost everyone is against the Caylee Sunshine dolls, yet the negative press just made them popular.