
Millward Brown research agency yesterday published its seventh 2012 BrandZ Top 100, the annual global brands ranking.
23 May 2012

Shopify, one of the most popular platforms that supplies the e-commerce tools to 25,000 online stores, has conducted a research to unveil the most commercially-driven social platform. The research showed that Pinterest users not only buy the products they pin, but spend more on...
22 May 2012

To recognize the most influential and favored Swiss companies, Interbrand, in cooperation with Swiss business magazine BILANZ, has created a list of Best Swiss Brands 2012.
7 May 2012

What trends are evident in the “on-the-go” drinkable food category? Will consumers accept these products as a satisfying alternative to a “real” snack or meal? How can package design create a compelling story to motivate consumers to purchase?
12 April 2012

L'Oreal has announced the launch of its Global Hair Research Centre located in Paris Saint-Ouen. The Centre offers Research & Innovation programs (R&I) including hair coloring, hair care, styling, and perms, smoothing or straightening.
29 March 2012
The ‘thumb gutty principle’. Over the years, this simple phrase has ear-wormed its way into our daily conversations, becoming a shorthand for ‘that feels right’ or ‘that’s the right thing to do’.
28 March 2012

While automakers getting ready for the Super Bowl by creating new TV ads, Venables Bell & Partners, an independent San Francisco ad agency conducts a study regarding the...
25 January 2012

According to Time magazine, lipstick sales are up 14% in 2011. But what’s more interesting is that nail polish is up 54%. Nail polish is evidently becoming the new US economic index.
16 November 2011

Thomson Reuters has unveiled a study of global most innovative companies. ‘Top 100 Global Innovators’ include such brand owners as Procter & Gamble, 3M, Apple and Intel....
16 November 2011

Havas Media has released its 2011 Meaningful Brands Research. In the study about 300 global brands in 12 industry sectors were identified according to their meaningfulness for customers.
8 November 2011
“For an average consumer the value of branding is down to making the right choice”

Sara Jones, Creative Director at brand development and packaging design agency Anthem Worldwide, shares her round up of the top five print innovations, which have the potential to create real standout, as long as they’re used to enhance –- rather than ‘be’ -- the brand idea.
If you had to choose the ultimate business super power, what would it be? Big budgets, global reach, an innovation pipeline full to bursting, a PR machine capable of generating positive press 24/7? Without hesitation, I answered “agility.”
Cheryl Swanson, Head of Toniq, once again explores the consumer trends for different age groups in the USA.
Before we had Apple Macs, Photoshop and a myriad of other programmes, design centered on tradition and craftsmanship, on the physical and the tactile. Yet now, we see the worlds of digital design and physical craftsmanship joining to create new expressions and celebrations of the power of making.
There’s a natural relationship between the style of our daily surroundings and how we feel. A great space can make us feel better, more hopeful and even more productive. And we often use our own space to express a vision of ourselves.

