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General Mills Ditches Dirty Palm Oil

Sinar Mas, the now notorious purveyor of palm oil, just lost another customer.READ»

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How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry

Nike's Mark Parker brings together extreme talents, whether they're basketball stars, tattooists, or designers obsessed with shoes.READ»

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A History of Green Brands 1960s and 1970s – Doing the Groundwork

Written by Landor Associates' Chief Strategy Officer, Russ Meyer, this series explores the evolution of the sustainability movement through the eyes of a marketer interested in the growth of green brandsGreen cars, green cleaners, ...READ»

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The Mekanism Guarantee: They Engineer Virality

Its viral ad work runs from lowbrow to esoteric to downright scary -- and that's all part of the plan. The machine behind Mekanism.READ»

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Nature's Path Leads Consumers Through Complicated Grocery Shelves

To help differentiate a brand of organic cereal, Seattle-based egg created a campaign that brought consumers in step with the sustainable values of a family-owned company.READ»

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RFD-TV: How an Ex-Farmer Built a $25 Million Media Empire for Rural America

How a scrappy ex-farmer from Nebraska built a TV channel for rural America. Hee Haw? Yeehaw!READ»

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Online Marketing Research: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

A little more than two years ago, just when online research had become a major source of data for marketers looking to keep their fingers on the pulse of consumers, Procter & Gamble’s marketing research leadership dropped a bomb.READ»

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Making Nice: The Stops and Starts of Advertising for a Cause

The stops and starts of pausing for a causeREAD»

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How Accurate are Newsweek's Green Company Rankings?

Newsweek magazine just announced its first annual Green Rankings of America's 500 largest corporations--a highly subjective list considering the myriad factors that go into a company's overall sustainability So how well do the ...READ»

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Food and Beverage Companies Need to Cut Carbon Emissions, or Else

Trucost, an environmental data provider, released a report revealing the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints of S&P 500 companies in a number of sectors with the intention of helping said companies prepare for the ...READ»

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Foremost World-Changing Agencies

Saatchi S. Cone. Global Change Network. Emotive Brand. Frog. GreenOrder. DiMassimo Goldstein. Little Big Brands. 8 Agencies Changing the Industry - And the World.READ»

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Wal-Mart Developing "Audacious" Sustainability Index for Every Product It Sells

Say what you will about Wal-Mart's carbon-intensive practice of shipping products from overseas, the big box retailer is at least trying to up its sustainability quotient. According to the Big Money's Marc Gunther, Wal-Mart is set to ...READ»

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Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden

Technology, savvy brand management, and a little bit of soul have made $6.7 billion Darden Restaurants the world's biggest casual-dining operation -- and it's still growing, even in tough times.READ»

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Will the Letterman-Palin Clash Take a Bite Out of Olive Garden?

Late last week, the Web site Politico ran a story claiming that Olive Garden was pulling its ads during The Late Show with David Letterman because of the late-night comedian's recent joke about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter. The ...READ»

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Diamonds Are A Cereal Marketer's Best Friend

 When C.W. Post started a small business in 1895 with his first batch of "Postum" (breakfast cereal) he probably did not foresee his company getting into the diamond business. The cereal company has ...READ»

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How Safe is Food Packaging?

After Nalgene was accused of putting Bisphenol A (BPA)--a chemical linked to breast cancer and early puberty-- in its water bottles, the embarrassed company quickly stopped using it. But Nalgene is far from the only company to use ...READ»

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Some of the Greatest Inventors Are Women

digg_url = 'http://www.fastcompany.com/article/some-greatest-inventors-were-women'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Do you know who invented liquid paper or the first solar home heating system? Well, those inventors were women. And with ...READ»

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Pepsi Tries Throwback Branding -- with a Premium Price

Marketers are dead certain that consumers always want something fresh and new; meanwhile, consumers often seem to hate big changes—as Pepsi's and Tropicana's disastrous rebrandings just proved. But for some reason, everyone ...READ»

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How One Man Confused Grocers and Won Customers with Canned Pancakes

Sean O'Connor has struggled with a monster. "Grocery is the biggest business you never think about," he says. "It moves incredibly slowly. We had no idea of the hurdles." He should know. He's spent the ...READ»

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How TerraCycle Plans to Takeover the Garbage Industry

Fast Interview: In this Q&A, TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky talks about why eco-friendly products don't have to be expensive, his quest to corner the trash market, and why his wife performed in Carnegie Hall in a dress made from recycled juice pouches.READ»

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End Marketing Apartheid Now

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama juxtaposed with the viral infection of Michael Richards and Don Imus brings to mind the stereotypes that have long plagued the business of marketing. READ»

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Profiting For a Good Cause

You know him as Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy, and -- last but not least -- the Salad Dressing Guy. But you may not know that actor Paul Newman is also a pioneer in outsourcing. In a good way, of course. In fact, the Newman's Own ...READ»

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Advertisers Target Captive Audiences

If screens seem to be popping up everywhere, that's because they are. In a DVR world, advertisers are reaching outside the home for today's most desirable audience: a captive one. Anywhere people might be waiting equals an opportunity to air short-form content and advertising. Tune in to the forefront of "advertainment." READ»

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Benefits of Buying "Local"?

Exploding the myths, presumptions, and pretensions of the "buy local" bullies.READ»