Starbucks Coffee Company, LBP Manufacturing and Henkel have introduced a new hot-cup sleeve entitled EarthSleeve. The new product allows reduction in overall material usage. It also increases the post-consumer content savings of nearly 100,000 trees.
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Every successful brand or company has a team of people, who developed the winning strategy and helped it move forth—and, in its turn, every team has its leader. Adweek, the magazine dedicated to covering creativity, client/agency relationships and global advertising, honors world’s most powerful marketers, who contributed to strengthening international brands, which shape out today’s culture and in some way determine our tomorrow. This year Adweek will celebrate eleven individuals, who helped global brands continue re-imagining our world, with the prestigious Brand Genius awards (formerly known as Marketer of the Year) “for their success in genius concepts.”
Laundry that gets done in an instant with no noise and with total ecological compatibility while hanging in the wardrobe in a kind of clothes bag—it could all come true with a detergent of the future called Persilan Oxygen. At least, that is the idea put forward by Anna Szarecka and Anna Szpot of Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. The two students made a powerful case with their innovative concept for a Henkel product for the year 2050, winning the Henkel Innovation Challenge in the process. And they can be proud of their feat for, having come out top in the international final of this student competition in Berlin, they have seen off some of the best teams the world has to offer.
On Monday, February 07, Henkel announced interactive packaging design contest aimed at finding the best packaging ideas for its adhesive products. It also introduced a new hub at www.packdesign-contest.com where users may register to join the contest and present their design ideas. Unlike other crowdsourcing industry contests, the users will be able to share their opinion and vote for the suggested designs.
In November, Schwarzkopf Professional started the new social initiative ‘Shaping Futures,’ which is a new worldwide charity initiative that sees Schwarzkopf Professional partnering with leading non-profit organisation SOS Children’s Villages and volunteer hairdressers, in order to introduce disadvantaged youth to the craft and livelihood potential of hairdressing.