Coca-Cola’s expedition to discover happiness started the same time Coke won the hearts of its first consumers. With almost every new promotional piece the iconic fuzzy drink brand is pursuing the goal to uncover a secret formula of happiness—Coca-Cola has already introduced the Happiness Machine and Truck, released a range of applications and surveys related to the theme and launched the hilarious Happiness Factory series to name but a few. The brand has already gained impressive experience of delivering positive emotions to millions of its consumers and it has come again to share some of its secrets. On September 16, Coca-Cola released a new 6 min 30 sec musical film dubbed ‘The Great Happyfication,’ a new installation of the Emmy- & TIME-nominated worldwide series of vibrant and a bit odd animated ads, which are all about discovering the world of Coke and the ways Coca-Cola makes people happy.


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With less than a year to go to London 2012, Olympic sponsorship is virtually sold out, with over 50 partners signed up at global and domestic level by the IOC and LOCOG in deals worth $2billion combined. This makes it one of the biggest sponsorship programmes of its type in the world—it accounts for around one-third of total Games revenues—and certainly the most prestigious given that its members feature a plethora of iconic global brand owners such as BMW, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Samsung.

Giant corporations and smaller companies always strive to be innovative to boost their business and continue success. Since each of the market leaders does a great job in this field, measuring and comparing their ‘innovative’ achievements can be rather tough, still Information Week, the technology magazine, studied their activity and published a list of the American companies, which use innovations in their strategies in the most effective way. While a multinational technology company, PACCAR, which manufactures premium commercial vehicles, tops the 2011 InformationWeek 500 list, the second position is taken by Levi Strauss, followed by other consumer companies including Procter & Gamble, Walgreen Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co, which take the 8th, 29th and 50th place correspondingly. The companies were ranked based on how they use technologies and fresh approaches to engage consumers in the most meaningful and entertaining way.