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Federer and Credit Suisse, marriage made in heaven

Roger  Federer continues to build his sponsors adding recently Lindt  and now Credit Suisse to his list. His reputation and values attract lucrative contracts even in an economic...

Response to Huff Post -> Walmart, Best Buy et. al ditch Glen Beck

It troubles me that so many Democrat/Progressive/Liberal/Blue Collar Americans delight at Glen Beck losing advertisers.  Imagine this Scenario - All these advertisers, while sitting around smoking their big...

Jimmy Kimmel Trashes ABC-TV Shows and Their Sponsors

"At Tuesday afternoon’s upfront presentation in New York, Mr. Kimmel, the host of ABC’s late night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” delivered a withering, blistering monologue that took direct aim at ABC, its...

Michael Phelps Will Still Be Seen In His Speedo

Michael Phelps' sponsors are sticking by him.  Speedo and Omega have made statements to the press, announcing their support of the Olympic swimmer, in spite of the Bong picture last week. " Phelps is still...

Barclays to review sponsorship of Premier League

"Barclays, which has lent its name to the Premier League since 2001, today became the latest global brand to signal a wide ranging review of its sponsorship priorities. The company, currently in the second season...

North Korea 'to restore reactor'

With Kim Jong Il possibly near death's door, it looks like those around him assuming power could be hard-liners. The country has announced it is reversing the dismantling of a nuclear reactor and making...

Attack ad targets hot dogs as cancer risk

The American Cancer Society is distancing itself from a television spot linking hot dog consumption to cancer. The ad itself implies that the tubular junk-food will cause cancer in children, which has not been...

N Korea 'stops nuclear disabling'

"North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities, accusing the US of reneging on a six-party disarmament deal. Work was suspended on 14 August, a foreign ministry spokesman is quoted as telling the state news agency KCNA. North Korea says it took the step...

Sponsors pull out of London 2012

The dust hasn't even settled on Beijing yet; the official handover hasn't even taken place, and already some of the top four sponsors are pulling out of London 2012."The failure of these global companies –...

Spain's Basketball Team: A Lesson In Being Politically Correct

Spain's Olympic basketball team created uproar (in Asia) this week, when the above photo was published in Spanish newspaper, El Mundo.   " Showing the players slanting their eyes for the Beijing Olympics,...

More Chic than Geek:Marketing at BlogHer

The BlogHer conference is underway in San Francisco (July 18-20), and of course an event like this is huge for companies who want to woo tastemakers and others who, by definition of attending this conference,...

Rule bans 'ambush marketing'

" Companies here will be prevented from engaging in "ambush marketing" ahead of and during the Beijing Olympics, in a bid to protect the rights of official sponsors, a spokesman for the Games' organizing committee said yesterday.Chen Feng, deputy director of the marketing...

NDOT Management Havoc Hits The Open Road :: The EDJE

"This 1996 Dodge Viper flipped and burned in Nye County 44 miles south of the starting line early in the race resulting in a delay of more than four hours. Driver Jerry Moll, of K&N Engineering, Inc., was not...

Senate votes to close loophole in FCC media ownerships

The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The unusual "resolution of disapproval," sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 26 other...

Protesting the sponsors not the host country of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Suddenly the big money sponsors of the Olympic Games are re-branding themselves as born-again companies with a social conscience, as champions of the poor perhaps? ""[H]aving spent huge sums, the companies sponsoring the Beijing games are about to find themselves the...

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