H.J. Heinz Company & Kraft Foods Group Agree Merger To Form The Kraft Heinz Company

H.J. Heinz Company & Kraft Foods Group Agree Merger To Form The Kraft Heinz Company

H.J. Heinz Company and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to create The Kraft Heinz Company, forming the third largest food and beverage company in North America with an unparalleled portfolio of iconic brands. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by both […]

Mondelez International Become Official Snacks of Major League Soccer

Mondelez International Become Official Snacks of Major League Soccer

Mondelez International, the maker of Oreo, Ritz, Trident, Honey Maid and Sour Patch Kids, announced a multi-year deal to become the Official Snacks of Major League Soccer (MLS). The sponsorship bolsters the brands’ presence in the sport as they enter the second year of the #PassTheLove campaign, a fully integrated program to help spread the […]

Rodanthi Senduka Named Packaging & Design Jury Chair For The FAB Awards

Rodanthi Senduka Named Packaging & Design Jury Chair For The FAB Awards

International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards are delight to announce Red Design Consultants‘ Rodanthi Senduka as the Packaging and Design Jury Chair for the 17th edition of the awards. Commenting on Rodanthi’s acceptance to chair the 2015 Packaging and Design Panel, The FAB Awards President N.Nayar said: “Ronda is a superstar! Her work for […]

Mondelez agrees real-time marketing analysis deal with Twitter

Mondelez agrees real-time marketing analysis deal with Twitter

Mondelez, the parent company of brands like Oreos and Cadbury, has inked a deal with Twitter that will allow its teams in the UK, US, India and Brazil to analyse the effectiveness of its social media marketing in real-time. The deal, the first of its kind between a company and the social media site, comes […]

ASA clears controversial Marmite ad

The advertising watchdog has decided not to investigate the controversial “animal cruelty” Marmite ad that has sparked hundreds of complaints to the regulator, saying the spot is “unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence”. The Adam&EveDDB-created ad, which features a parody rescue unit travelling around the UK recovering “neglected” jars of Marmite left at the […]

Iceland ‘no horsemeat’ ad banned

Iceland ‘no horsemeat’ ad banned

Iceland “denigrated” the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in an ad defending the amount of horsemeat found its burgers but the ad itself was not “misleading”, according to the ad watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority upheld in part a complaint that an Iceland print ad stating that horsemeat had never been found in their products […]