Heineken, the brand famous for supporting musical events and festivals will inspire New Yorkers with Latin music and culture this summer.
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People who do good to their communities must be provided with great coffee that can help these activists ‘recharge the batteries.’ In late March, Seattle’s Best Coffee, which recognizes the importance of providing volunteers with high-quality coffee, introduced the Brew-lanthropy Project, allowing their fans to nominate and choose the recipient of the second-ever Brew-lanthropy Award for volunteers (the first one was named at the launch of the program—it was the Blackstone Bicycle Works nonprofit). The public voting on Facebook ended on May 18, and yesterday the brand announced the winner: it is the faculty of Greene County Middle School in Snow Hill, NC, which got the most votes and so will recieve support from the brand.
On June 13, the worldwide Olympic sponsor Samsung unveiled its new logo to be used on all its London 2012 campaigns and advertising, including its sponsorship of the Torch Relay, for which it is a Presenting Partner. The presentation took place with the help of David Beckham, who signed up to be the Samsung London 2012 ambassador last month.
Earlier this year, the Japanese lifestyle brand Uniqlo launched a fashion community UNIQLOOKS for those who like to create new outfits made of the brand’s items, share their ‘mix-and-match’ efforts with other people around the globe, who rate the entries with Facebook ‘Likes.’ Now, the brand is inviting its fans to show off their unique summer looks with the other fashionistas for a chance to win a trip to one of five world’s fashion hotspots and receive Uniqlo gift vouchers.
illy has announced the finalists of its 2011 AuthentiCity photography contest as a follow-up to the last year’s inaugural competition, launched the coffee brand in partnership with the NYC-based School of Visual Arts (SVA). In its second year, the project is again encouraging emerging talents to come up with their visual personal interpretations of the big city and discover its unique sprit. The jury panel selected Phil Kline, Jessica Miller and David Rapoport as this year’s finalists—in 2010, there were five people, and they have been commissioned with the task to create new pieces of work, which will help the judges to select the winner.
PepsiCo’s Quaker Chewy is following in the footsteps of Converse, which has been one of the biggest brands committed to helping emerging music geniuses get a stage where their voices can be heard. While the shoewear brand is primarily targeting bands, the snack brand is launching young music talents competition, running in the USA, and is happy to welcome standalone singers aged 8-14, who can upload videos of them performing one of the four songs selected by the brand to the Quaker Chewy Superstar Search website. The winner of the contest will receive a contract with the industry expert, record a song and get $5,000 in cash—not a bad start for a superstar-to-be.