Mars Chocolate offers free candy bars on Free Chocolate Fridays

Mars chocolate is joining in on their own version of the stimulus package, by providing free candy bars of Mars, M&Ms, Snickers, Twix, Dove and 3 Musketeers every friday from May 8th through the summer to...

Man dives in to save pet dog from shark in Florida

" A dog is recovering after a Florida Keys carpenter dove in to save his pet from a shark. Greg LeNoir said he took his 14-pound rat terrier Jake for a daily swim at a marina Friday. The five-foot...

Dove's 'Real Beauty' Pics Could Be Big Phonies

Beauty, it turns out, is more than skin deep..."BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Dove's "real beauties" may not be so real after all, at least by the account of a renowned airbrush artist. In a May 12 profile in The New Yorker posted online, Pascal Dangin of New York's Box...

Were Dove's 'Real' Women Retouched Fakes?

I was always highly skeptical about Dove's campaign for "real" beauty. Turns out I had a real reason to be. Hypocrites. "You know that Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty," which featured women slightly less skeletal...

Unilever's 'Monkey Business' - Greenpeace swings into action

Greenpeace has launched a campaign today against the makers of Dove soap, who buy palm oil from companies wrecking Indonesia's forests.They launched this morning with some direct actions at the offices and...

Dove Viral Draws Heat From Critics

The beauty industry is in the eye of the beholder.  Behold the blowback...""Onslaught," from Ogilvy, Toronto, has amassed about 1 million views on YouTube since its Oct. 1 debut, still well under the 12...

Dove and creating lifelong links with consumers

It is happening all around us - companies are quietly using increasingly subtle methods to create strong bonds with consumers. Often the actual product/s are not mentioned at all. In the case of Dove, it is a...

Five-year-old drowns in pool while Grandmother babysits

This is a tragic story about the death of a young boy...but there are important child care lessons here as well. " A five-year-old child has died after falling in a pool at his grandmother's residence. According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, a frantic woman...

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