It’s not every day that five icons from the candy world decide to drop everything and venture to the Great White North, but their bags are packed, and they’re ready to go. Over the next ten months, Canadians are invited to join M&M’S® Spokescandies Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange and Miss Green as they criss-cross the nation and follow them on their new Twitter account, @mmscanada. The Spokescandies will tweet their travels, post photos and postcards, and ask Canadians to tell them where they should head to next.

Mars gets focused on re-uniting adults and regular football in England. The chocolate brand in partnership with The FA to launch a campaign entitled ‘FA MARS Just Play’ across the country to encourage its consumers to take a ball and head to the pitch with their friends to play a football mach like they did when they were kids. Through the new initiative, the brand is “aiming to get 150,000 new participants playing the game for at least 30 minutes a week by September 2013, and deliver a total of 3.9m hours of extra football played each year throughout England,” thefa reports.

A range of processed food, drink and alcohol manufacturers as well as fast food companies are collaborating with the UK Department of Health to develop a government policy on obesity, a problem which mainly roots in improper eating habits. The companies, which teamed up for working on the paper, are McDonald’s, KFC, PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo.

Colourful M&M‘s candies have lost their dear fellow, Red, In Canada and are now asking residents of this country to help spot him in the City of Toronto (its digital version). The character got into the virtual space on November 4 (the sad story of how Red jumped into the digital dimension is told in a video), and the volunteers of 13 years of age or older are challenged with a task to drag him back within a month.

Mars Chocolate North America is hosting a Dove® Chocolate Football Party in Times Square, New York City today, on September 13, to commemorate the opening of the NFL Season on the first Monday Night Football game of the year. The event will showcase new ways for fans and non-fans alike to enjoy the football season by inviting women to make his football time her «me time» with silky smooth Dove Chocolate. The event will be co-hosted by Holly Robinson Peete, actress, philanthropist and wife of former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete.