Mike Beirne
MillerCoors Puts a Cooler Face on Coors Light Cans
Brand Marketing
MillerCoors, a joint venture of brewers SABMiller and Coors Brewing, will refresh Coors Light packaging with a two-sided cold-activated label that will be featured on 12- and 16-oz. cans hitting [...]
Dunkin’ Duels Starbucks with Taste Test
Brand Marketing
Pepsi did it to Coca-Cola. Miller Lite used it against Bud Light, and now Dunkin
MillerCoors Discontinues Zima
Brand Marketing
MillerCoors announced this week that the malternative beverage known as Zima, introduced by Coors Brewing in 1992, would be discontinued. The company expects to ship its last Zima orders sometime [...]
Brewers Are Crafting a Case For Their Niche Products
Brand Marketing
Imported beers long have prospered by being the trade-up option from regular domestic brews. But now such imports as Heineken and Corona Extra must respond to a niche that is [...]
Walgreens Takes Healthy Attitude About Take Care Clinic
Brand Marketing
Time-pressed moms and other consumers looking for simple, yet quality, health solutions are the target audience for Walgreens’ integrated campaign promoting Take Care Clinic, its in-store health clinic. A TV [...]
Holiday Inn Express Calls on Consumers to ‘Stay Smart’
Brand Marketing
In the face of a slumping economy that has affected the hospitality market, Holiday Inn Express is introducing more advertising to reinforce its value message among consumers. New TV spots, [...]
Wrigley Challenges Cadbury’s Trident Xtra Care Ads
Brand Marketing
Wm. Wrigley Jr.’s complaint against Cadbury USA’s advertising claim that its Trident Xtra Care gum builds tooth enamel has been routed to the Federal Trade Commission for review, the National [...]
Affluent Look to Facelifts for the Home
Brand Marketing
Upscale building products are holding their own thanks to the affluent who are making over kitchens and bathrooms rather than taking their chances on buying a new home in this [...]
Gum Category Embraces Germ Warfare
Brand Marketing
Germ-killing gum anyone? Mentos Pure Fresh gum, launching next year, will include green tea extract that kills the bacteria that causes bad breath. Eclipse, meanwhile, has been assassinating germs, using [...]
R.J. Reynolds Preps Dissolvable Tobacco
Brand Marketing
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco will dive deeper into the smokeless category next year by nationally distributing Camel Snus and introducing in test markets dissolvable alternatives to cigarettes called Camel Sticks, Camel [...]