adidas introduces a new cross-platform campaign targeting next-generation cricketers under the tagline ‘Bring It on’. And who can appeal to the athletes better than the athletes do? That’s why adidas has rolled out a campaign featuring modern-day cricket stars like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Mallinga and Dwayne Bravo seeking to inspire up-and-coming sportsmen take their first steps in the sport.

Global leader in sports footwear manufacturing, New Balance launches a new campaign aimed at motivating and inspiring active consumers to excel and reach a new level of ‘Excellent’.  The campaign features a new tagline, ‘Let’s Make Excellent Happen’, which clearly expresses the brand’s commitment to bringing only the best quality products to the customer and inspires customers to achieve excellent results with help of New Balance sport shoes.

The footwear company New Balance launched another project which encapsulates the theme of youth’s creativity, showcasing life of five young artists from Australia through the world of photography and video. The project, called www.nb574.com (in honour of one model in the brand’s range), will be disclosing details of the guys’ everyday creative experience of bringing new and fresh things in various fields (visual art, fashion and music) to the world.

Rankings revolving around the health, environmental and social impact of products and companies are gaining their popularity among consumers who want to know if the goods they purchase are really healthy from different points of view. Recently, Popsop wrote about Nike’s ‘Environmental Apparel Design Tool,’ based on Nike’s Considered Design Index, as well as the Eco Index, and now the GoodGuide system, created back in 2007, gets into the spotlight. So far, over 95,000 food, toys, apparel, personal care & household products, babies & kids, electronics and appliances produced by both local and global companies (the list of those includes Starbucks, Levi’s, H&M, Nescafe, Nike, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Diesel to name a few) are thoroughly studied and ranked by experts of GoodGuide, with the results being available at the website and on the iPhone app.

Six hundred fewer tons of plastic in the environment in 2011: this is the green result that Benetton Group will achieve by introducing innovative, lightweight liquid wood clothes hangers—100% biodegradable and recyclable—in place of the plastic hangers usually used to display garments. The eco-hangers, developed in partnership with the Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie in Pfinztal-Berghausen (Germany), will gradually replace their plastic predecessors throughout the worldwide network of Benetton stores.