Integrated design agency Standout UK has launched a new digital marketing campaign for household cereal brand Quaker Oat So Simple as part of a drive to create awareness and encourage consumers to trial its latest flavours. It has created a dedicated microsite for the healthy breakfast brand under a “We Love Winter” theme. The interactive digital strategy will seek to engage customers with a competition while promoting the launch of two new seasonal flavours by the brand.

Frito-Lay Canada is now selling its SunChips in a 100% compostable packaging, which is obviously good news. The bad news about it is that the packs are very noisy. The fans of the product have even registered a group on Facebook, entitled “Sorry but I can’t hear you over this SunChips bag” with over 52 thousand fans to date, and the brand is doing everything possible to convince the public that loud and green should win over quiet and harmful. If consumers want to eat these chips, but hate the sound the packaging makes, the brand offers them a pair of earplugs. 

Cheerios®, through its Spoonfuls of Stories® program, is inviting families to start their day with a nutritious breakfast and a brand new book. As part of its ongoing commitment to nurturing the whole child and connecting families by fostering a shared love of reading, Cheerios will once again provide more than six million children’s books, written in both English and Spanish, free inside Cheerios boxes beginning November 3.

Unilever and Walgreens unveiled a new activity and life skills learning area at the Midtown Education Foundation’s Metro Achievement Center, USA, serving inner-city girls in Chicago from grades 4 through 12, at an event here yesterday evening. The new Activity and Life Skills learning area, a formerly unfinished and unutilized space at the Metro Achievement Center, will expand personal and educational development programs to support girls ages 8 to 18.

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.

Barneys New York, a luxury specialty retailer, announced its upcoming national holiday campaign «Have a Foodie Holiday,» Barneys’ celebration of foodie culture. Barneys, in partnership with Food Network, Cooking Channel, and illycaffe, will kick off the holiday season with the unveiling of the Madison Avenue flagship’s windows on November 16.