McDonald’s Corporation celebrates with Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) the opening of the world’s 300th Ronald McDonald House on September 29 in St. Louis, USA, on the campus of St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. Hundreds of families each year will now be able to refresh, relax and support each other at the House while their children are receiving life-saving treatment for conditions such as cancer, heart disease and birth defects.

Nike is going on promoting the urgent need for giving girls in developing countries more opportunities to get out of poverty. One of its initiatives, Girl Effect, is now being ‘refreshed’ with a new exciting video released. At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative conference (September 21-23), Nike, the recognized influencer in the area of social changes, unveiled its second inspirational spot for the program, encouraging more people to join in, donate and give girls in deprived communities a chance for improving their lives.

For the second year, Tide is bringing its free «More Value for Your Money» seminars to Hispanic women with an agenda that highlights new tips and suggestions so that they can spend their money more effectively. According to a recent survey conducted by The Associated Press and Univision, 6 in 10 of the Hispanic population polled said it’s hard for them to get ahead financially these days, so now more than ever it is important to find ways to get more value for their money.

This year, Levi’s launched a series of new projects and creative partnerships revolving around the ‘labour’ theme as part of its campaign dubbed “We Are All Workers,” which was kicked off in early summer. Some of these initiatives—like opening printmaking shops—were new, and some emerged from the previous programs. The annual «Billy Reid Shindig» celebration, which was held in early June in Alabama, belongs to the second category.

Nestlé announced the creation of Nestlé Health Science S.A. and the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences to pioneer a new industry between food and pharma. These two separate organisations will allow Nestlé to develop the innovative area of personalised health science nutrition to prevent and treat health conditions such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease, which are placing an unsustainable burden on the world’s healthcare systems.

Nike never misses a chance to get into big sport events: the new campaign by the brand has been kicked off to mark the launch of the new NFL season and pay tribute to those who make sport spectacular. The new promotional project, developed at Wieden+Kennedy Portland is revolving around the “Boom!” theme and features renowned athletes, school football teams and celebrities who starred in a series of 15-second spots.

Calvin Klein, Inc., along with Calvin Klein Fragrances, a unit of Coty Prestige, and Warnaco Inc., which owns and operates Calvin Klein Underwear and is the global licensee for Calvin Klein Jeans and Swimwear, announced that Warnaco will launch a new lifestyle brand of contemporary men’s and women’s jeanswear, underwear, and swimwear under the existing fragrance brand name “ck one.” This new apparel line will take inspiration from the globally recognized ck one unisex fragrance brand and will be supported by a new global marketing and advertising campaign.

Brown Forman announced the launch of its newly designed Herradura Tequila bottle that captures the essence and heritage of the brand name. In 2009, Brown Forman hired Hirst Pacific Ltd to assist in redesigning the bottle. The mission for Kenneth Hirst, president of Hirst Pacific Ltd, was to work in conjunction with the Brown Forman design team to develop a new Herradura bottle that would unify Herradura’s global markets, replacing the round bottle in Mexico and the square bottle in the USA.