Starbucks is not only launching new social programs and introduces innovative products to its range, but it’s also doing everything possible to provide the consumers with better in-store experience with a range of features. One of them is My Starbucks Rewards initiative, which was started back in 2009 and is already running in the U.S and Canada, now is about to launch in the UK.

Schawk, Inc. has closed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Lipson Associates, Inc. and Laga, Inc., which does business as Brandimage—Desgrippes & Laga, or “Brandimage,” for a cash purchase price of $25 million, subject to certain closing and post-closing adjustments, and the assumption of certain trade account and business related liabilities. Schawk funded the purchase price through a draw from its existing credit facility.

Coke Zero is kicking off a new global campaign to support the launch of the long-awaited fourth installation of the Mission Impossible franchise, just like it did two years ago promoting Avatar and in 2010 supporting Thron: Legacy release. The new movie ‘Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol’ will premier in nearly two months, in December, but the bubble drinks’ promotion, which includes TV spots, in cinema advertising, product packaging and digital activation, will be rolling our across the world over a few weeks.

H&M, which is well-known for its successful collaboration with global design icons, is launching a new collection created for the retailer by Versace. To develop the new range, the brand’s creative director Donatella Versace looked back at the fashion house’s legacy and recreated the brand’s classical styles, such as the bright prints, the Greek key and daring cuts, which actually made the house famous all around the globe. The new collection includes both apparel and special homeware pieces, which will go on sale starting November 17, both in 300 stores around the globe and online.

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) launches crazieRBrands, a suite of eight fast and fun online and mobile mini-games, developed in partnership with RB’s creative agency The Workroom and social game specialists TAMBA, who designed and developed the games. RB continues to enhance its online and mobile gaming platforms due to the games’ success to-date as a fun and informal way to engage graduates and early-careerists with the RB corporate brand.

For its 40-year long history, Starbucks has released a plethora of products, which were appreciated by millions of consumers, and it seems to be hard to surprise them with something new. But the new blend is truly innovative: yesterday, on October 18, company presented Starbucks Blonde Roast, the lightest coffee roast ever sold within the chain, continuing the brand’s commitment to offer its consumers products that fit their tastes (like it was with the introduction of Starbucks VIA Ready Brew instant coffee). With the new offering, the company also introduces new coffee packaging organized by roast—there’ll be blonde, medium and dark varieties.

The burlesque diva and fashion celebrity Dita Von Teese, the Cointreau ambassadress, is presenting another elegant piece as part of her collaboration with the brand. Last fall, the extravagant diva unveiled the Cointreau coffret and now she presents an elegant accessory, My Cointreau Travel Essentials bar, which allows us to create and savor the divine cocktails while on trips or at home parties. The round white box is designed in retro style and reminds of a hatbox, in which beautiful rich ladies used to carry their fashionable headdresses decades ago.

Each century and each decade has its own food trends, which arise from changes in the modern culture and influence the culture simultaneously. So, culinary can be named one of the most powerful tools in shaping tomorrow’s attitudes and likes, and that’s why we need to know these tendencies. The international manufacturer of home appliances Electrolux has surveyed the world’s most influential food critics and chefs to reveal the top trends in the culinary world—as it turns out, now the hottest thing in this area is “a Scandinavian bistro style slow street food restaurant with Japanese influences focusing on local ingredients,” says the press release.

Converse is one of the most unconventional brands in the footwear sector, the commitment to amaze public and support pioneering spirit underlies the chucks label’s philosophy since the day the brand was started. Converse has kicked off a great ambient campaign in the UK, which offers passers-by an opportunity to take the brand’s shoes in extraordinary situations right in the street. To launch the promotion dubbed ‘In case of emergency’ (or I.C.E.) Converse put its winter boots into special red street boxes in secret locations across the country—the shoe wear can be taken out by any one, if he or she really needs it.