Dove Hair Care and award-winning actress and singer Idina Menzel invite America’s best glee clubs, choirs and groups of 3 to 10 musically-inclined friends to compete for their own brush with greatness. The «Dove Hair Care Brush with Greatness Sing4All» video contest will give one team a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform the iconic Rodgers & Hammerstein song «My Favorite Things» live onstage at the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on December 28.

Kit Kat, one of the most successful brands produced by the Nestlé company, is celebrating its 75th birthday. The name of the iconic chocolate ‘fingers,’ approx. 540 of which are consumed every second around the globe (according to the Guinness Book of Records as of March 2010), dates back to the 17th century and originates from a London-based literary and political club called Kit Kat, the abbreviated name of pastry chef Christopher Catling, the owner of a pie shop where its meetings were held.

Kraft Foods is inviting all moms, who are looking for a good chuckle to start off the week or need a laughter-noon break before their duties as carpooling diva begin, to watch a new series of hilarious webspots featuring comedian Anita Renfroe. They can log onto YouGottaLOL.com every Monday morning and catch a new episode of «You Gotta LOL,» a hilarious new online video series sponsored by 14 Kraft Foods brands including Maxwell House, Oreo, Kool-Aid, Wheat Thins, Chips Ahoy! and Jell-O.

Hershey’s Bliss Chocolates kicked off Breast Cancer Awareness Month as the presenting sponsor of the seventh annual YSC Tour de Pink—a four-day, 220-mile bike ride benefiting Young Survival Coalition (YSC). On October 1, more than 200 breast cancer survivors and supporters began pedaling from Hershey, Pennsylvania, to New York City, raising funds and awareness for YSC—the premier international organization dedicated to the critical issues unique to young women and breast cancer.

Dove is bringing together the nation’s most influential women and girls’ organizations to launch the Dove Movement for Self-Esteem across the USA to provide women everywhere with opportunities to mentor the next generation and celebrate real beauty. This initiative follows the Campaign for Real Beauty, started by Dove as a global conversation about the need for a wider definition of beauty.

European brand consultancy LFH has created the branding and packaging for new Xylimax Flow chewing gum from Fazer, Finland’s largest confectionery business. New Xylimax Flow is a fresh fruity flavoured full xylitol chewing gum with sequentially released fruit when first chewed and a refreshing mint flavour at the end. It comes in two variants both with a menthol finish—lime and cactus, and raspberry and peach. The new chewing gum will be sold in 25g bags. LFH was appointed on the strength of the agency’s previous work with Fazer, following their appointment as the company’s brand consultancy in 2009.

Kraft Foods launched a worldwide initiative to celebrate play and fight world hunger. Through an app on Kraft Foods’ corporate Facebook page, the company is encouraging consumers to upload photos of people at play. And for each photo provided, Kraft Foods will donate five meals (up to 500,000) to the United Nations World Food Programme’s Fill the Cup campaign, which aims to feed more than 20 million children around the world who go to school hungry every day.

The Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition® (HCHN) joined with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) to unveil Moderation Nation™, a new national program which kicks off by providing complimentary visits with ADA member registered dietitians to consumers, age 18 or over. Moderation Nation seeks to educate people on how to achieve balance in their lives through moderation, both in nutrition and physical activity.

Mars Chocolate North America is hosting a Dove® Chocolate Football Party in Times Square, New York City today, on September 13, to commemorate the opening of the NFL Season on the first Monday Night Football game of the year. The event will showcase new ways for fans and non-fans alike to enjoy the football season by inviting women to make his football time her «me time» with silky smooth Dove Chocolate. The event will be co-hosted by Holly Robinson Peete, actress, philanthropist and wife of former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete.