KANSAS CITY – Bon Ami, one of America’s most beloved cleansers, has updated its packaging, for perhaps the third time in a decade or so. This time, their trademark yellow color, present for the last century, has mostly disappeared. The red remains, in a different usage. Most importantly, the chick,MORE HERE
PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO — Kathy Krenger is the new chief communications officer for The Kraft Heinz Company. She is currently senior vice president, global communications, for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and begins the position July 21, 2021, reporting directly to CEO Miguel Patricio. Michael Mullen, Head of Global Communications and CorporateMORE HERE
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – The Italian company Ali Group, owner of dozens of professional cooking appliance brands across the world, has made a $24 a share cash offer for Welbilt, a Florida-based maker of brands that include the Manitowoc ice maker and Garland stove. On Tuesday, July 6, 2021MORE HERE
GOLETA, Calif. – The shoe brand Hoka One has hired two for key design positions. Evie Moe is the brand’s first senior director of apparel. Moe has 20 years of experience in apparel, ranging from performance running to lifestyle and swimwear and most recently served as the vice president of designMORE HERE
MIAMI – The Miami shirt maker Ramon Puig Guayaberas “La Casa de la Guayabera,” has reopened after closing during the Covid pandemic. The 77-year-old brand, located on historic Eighth Street, or “Calle Ocho”, closed in August 2020, but has reopened on the same street. The guayabera is a button downMORE HERE
Navistar has its beginning with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, founded by Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus McCormick’s father Robert McCormick began work on a reaper in 1809 at his Virginia farm, Walnut Grove. MORE HERE
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — In the wake of the introduction of a newly updated 2022 Outlander, Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. reported second quarter sales of 25,146, a 106% increase compared with the second quarter of 2020. The company, which in recent decades has not had good press from the auto media, isMORE HERE
STAMFORD, Conn., – A new Yellow Tail wine will launch in the U.S. this month. The new Yellow Tail Pure Bright is 85 calories or less. It’s a lower calorie, lower alcohol wine from a major wine brand sold at less than $7 a bottle. It’s available in Sauvignon Blanc,MORE HERE
It’s summer. Time to think about great brands of frozen drinks. The history of the frozen ice drink goes back to Roman times or before. But the ubiquitous frozen drink, on every corner, dates from the mid 1960s, and the invention of the ICEE machine. While the ICEE was theMORE HERE
LONDON – TBWA London has tapped Larissa Vince as the agency’s new CEO. CEO Sara Tate will leave the agency at the end of the summer to become a consultant and leadership coach. Vince worked for nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, latterly as Managing Director where she was responsibleMORE HERE