Coca-Cola is battling “gray-ness” with the latest installment of its “Where Will Happiness Strike Next?” global campaign that injects some unexpected joy into the dull urban surroundings. The “Roll Out Happiness” initiative masterminded by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam literally rolled out a piece of summer in boring «gray, grau, gri, グレー, šedá, серых» city settings of Vilnius, Lithuania in late summer.
Year: 2013
Levi’s extends its recent global campaign, “Make Our Mark,” with a knowledge-focused partnership with the collaborative learning company Skillshare. Together, they are launching a series of online video classes that will help users develop creative skills as different as designing meaningful tattoos, capturing the surroundings with a mobile phone, creating typographics inspired by sound, designing vintage-inspired postcards from the future, and more.
IKEA strives to help consumers live their lives more sustainably. The Swedish retailer, known for offering smart interior solutions at affordable prices, now invites the UK consumers to buy the solar panel packages for private houses to make them as green as never before. The new equipment will be available at all 17 company’s stores within the next 10 months.
The auto brand MINI, which has been rolling out its Not Normal campaign with a bunch of odd but smart efforts, has recently made quite a traditional addition to its MINI Lifestyle Collection. The range of branded goods that includes apparel, toys, bicycles, bags, luggage, and other lifestyle accessories, is now broadened with a collection of five sophisticated sport watches. The timepieces are said to “continue the brand’s tradition of functionality and ease of use.”
Interbrand’s “2013 Best Global Brands” top 100 list has revealed that Coca-Cola, which used to lead the chart for the previous 13 years, has lost its dominance as the most valuable global brand, yielding precedency to the technology giant Apple estimated at $98.3 billion. The total value of all 100 best global brands is $1.5 trillion, which is 8.4% record increase over 2012, Interbrand reports.
The sportswear brand Patagonia has announced a new initiative The Responsible Economy in the U.S. that focuses on the principle of seeing new in the old. The brand is calling consumers and manufacturers to be more attentive to the old things they are going to send to the landfill in order to save more, both for their pockets and the planet.