Any big idea, which helps a company flourish and establish intimate ties with consumers and pushes it forward in the industry, has a team of professionals behind. In this review based on the Fast Company’s diverse list of The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011, we at Popsop celebrate creative geniuses in top international businesses including Apple, Google, Levi’s, Nike, PepsiCo and more who reinvent strategies of their companies and introduce new groundbreaking solutions that change the world in a certain way.

In 2011, the BMW Group, one of the most successful manufacturers of automobiles and motorcycles in the world, is celebrating 40 years of its cultural involvement at the Venice Biennale. The success of the BMW Group has always been built on long-term thinking and responsible action, as well as on its support of wide range of cultural events. Among them the most famous are: the BMW Guggenheim Lab, the Nationalgalerie Prize and the Hungarian Pavilion.

MINI, which last year launched a hilarious geo-location campaign in Stockholm, has now running a new awesome international promotion in another European capital, Berlin. For the new advertising initiative dubbed ‘It’s Personal,’ the brand merged billboards and interactive technology, inviting just everybody—both in the real and digital dimensions—to tap in and get featured on the giant MINI Photo Box, located at the corner Kurfürstendamm and Joachimstaler Straße in the German capital.

MINI Countryman, a car model in the center of the US campaign entitled Wonderlust, of which we reported about last Friday, now gets a new colorful sweater. This small car is now in the spotlight of the new art project featuring ‘knitta’ artist Magda Sayegis. Magda creates her masterpieces by… knitting, or what is now called yarn bombing. She covers tree trunks, poles, monuments and even buses in multicolor knitted close-fitting coats.

MINI has officially announced the launch of its marketing campaign for MINI Countryman. Perhaps, for the first time in the history of automotive industry, a brand-new car gets  so close to a prospective customer. The campaign entitled MINI Countryman Wanderlust provides current MINI-owners and fans a plethora of opportunities for an ongoing relationship with the brand and its community through a number of entertainment events ranging from parties to concerts.