Within a year of creating a revolution in the feminine hygiene category with the launch of U by Kotex and U by Kotex Tween, Kimberly-Clark is extending the line with U by Kotex Limited Edition Designer Series. Four distinct new products and designs capture young women’s personal style with trend forward colors and patterns, keeping her interested by creating surprise, delight and variety on shelf.
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Aquafresh® ‘Ultimate’, the new ‘Whole Tooth Protection’ flagship brand for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is the result of a close collaboration between GSK in-house PacXperience & Consumer Healthcare Futures and strategic brand innovation & design consultancy Webb deVlam. It has been just launched in the UK following recent successes in France, The Netherlands, Italy and Germany (the first territories in an international roll-out schedule that commenced in March).
Last week, Old Spice launched a spinoff of its hilarious ‘Be Like a Man, Man’ campaign, introducing a new spokeshunk, 50-something Fabio, who came to replace the hilarious Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa for a short period, while he is busy in Hollywood. Procter& Gamble stated that the previous, much-loved character will return, but the audience didn’t expect that it’ll happen so soon (yet, he was battling with the newcomer online on Twitter since the launch of the new phase).
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), the leading global household, health and personal care company (with U.S. headquarters in Parsippany, NJ) and parent of Clearasil, Lysol, Woolite and other iconic brands, announced a charity adventure competition for students and those early in their careers. The competition is accessible via RB’s Facebook page, where contestants can enter to win experiences of a lifetime to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, trek the Great Wall ofChina, cycle from London to Paris or Hike the Inca Trail. These charitable adventures are similar to those offered to RB employees by the company.
Old Spice has introduced a new protagonist of in a series of ads to promote deodorants with scents of exotic places. Isaiah Mustafa, who got featured in the brand’s extremely popular campaign last year and appeared in ads promoting the resort-inspired line earlier this year, has stepped off the scene to give more space to a new (old) guy, bodice-ripper Fabio Lanzoni (or just Fabio), who has starred in a set of tongue-in-cheek 30-second commercials, promoting the product. Is the new ‘hunk’ a new ‘man your man could smell like?’ Please, no.