As the Royal Wedding falls just after Easter, many people in the UK will be enjoying an eight day holiday bonanza within a short eleven day period, and consumers will be looking to make the most of the holiday atmosphere, celebrating all that is great about Britain. Leading drinks companies Diageo GB and Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) are both activating plans to help GB retailers make the most of the opportunity presented by the much anticipated occasions, and are launching holiday editions of their iconic products.
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To continue a series of recycling-oriented projects, which include the famous 111 Navy Chair and the recently presented ‘Give It Back’ racks, Coca-Cola collaborated with a range of apparel designers on creating a collection of T-shirts, made of recycled PET bottles, as part of the Coca-Cola rPET Program. For the line, launched just in time for the Earth Month, the company and Base Control, the Japanese casual wear brand, teamed up with Stussy, BEAMS, XLARGE, SILAS, JOURNAL STANDARD, LUKER by NEIGHBORHOOD, Beauty & Youth and BASESTATION, as www.hypebeast.com reports.
Fanta has unveiled a digital campaign targeting teenagers from mainland China between the age of 12 and 19. With the new online app published at www.Fanta.com.cn the brand intends to provide fun and entertainment and keep the students learning while playing an online game. This local campaign is a part of global ‘Less Serious’ marketing platform and was developed by Ogilvy & Mather Group Shanghai.
Tree-planting movement is already joined by a number of brands including Avon, Timberland, Finlandia Vodka, IKEA, Odwalla and many more. The idea of providing consumers an opportunity to give back to nature while buying something natural was recently adopted by another brand, Coca-Cola’s Honest Tea, which partnered with the National Forest Foundation to kick off its Bag to Tree reforest campaign across the USA.
Comparison stands behind any considered choice, and any confident global brand tends to provide its consumers with an opportunity to examine both the positive and negative sides of their products—and sometimes weigh its offerings against goods by other manufacturer. Sometimes, companies also step outside the product world and help compare lots of other things—sexes, automobiles, brothers, tastes, political parties, athletes and more—to help determine which of the two is better, stronger, messier, tastier, faster, more attractive, reliable, sportive, etc. In this overview, we won’t focus on serious ratings revealing carbon footprint or social impact, like Nike’s Environmental Apparel Design Tool, Timberland’s Eco Index or GoodWill’s rating—instead, as tribute to April Fool’s Day, which was celebrated last Friday, we will focus on humorous and tongue-in-cheek projects.
Beginning March 31, the Coca-Cola Perfect Harmony collaboration invites American Idol fans to help write a new song for Coca-Cola that will be performed during the show’s season finale May 25 at 8/7c on FOX. Fans can visit www.AmericanIdol.com where they can listen to the opening segment of a song penned by multiplatinum singer-songwriter Taio Cruz.