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Fisherman’s: Strong Lozenges, Strongman Mud Run
They came, they ran, they crawled, they jumped, they conquered. It was all part of the Fisherman’s Friend Strongman Run, a one-of-a-kind, demanding and cutting-edge experience that in February 2007 pushed 1,930 German participants to the limit as 12,000 spectators cheered them on. The runners overcame 11 obstacles, bounding up hills formed of bales of...
Lion Nathan Brewery Forms a New Sport—Beach Cricket
Lion Nathan Brewery and its XXXX Gold beer brand wanted to leverage Australians’ love of cricket, but its main competitor had a long-standing relationship with the national team and a virtual lock on major domestic and international competitions. So it created an entirely new sport called beach cricket. Twenty-three legends of the sport from Australia,...
Maxwell House Outfits Toll Booth Workers with Coffee
Maxwell House had to come up with a way to cater to consumers’ evolving caffeine palettes while maintaining its simple cup o’ joe appeal. So it created a new blend of 100 percent Arabica beans. All it had to do now was get it in consumers’ hands. The answer: Maxwell House launched the Brew Some...
McDonald’s Hosts Parking Lot Concerts for Millennials
McDonald’s needed a super-sized idea for reconnecting with young adults. (You know, those highly coveted yet squirrelly 18-to-24-year-olds with a finely tuned B.S.-meter that goes off at the first sign of old school-style marketing and advertising? Yeah, them.) So to show them that Mickey-D’s gets who they are and what they’re about, the brand tapped...