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Nestle Waters: Corporate Scrooge of the Year?

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM

A bottled water company threatens to sue a public utility for infringing on its marketing claims. Seriously, guys?This should go down in the annals of bad sustainability marketing . Nestle Waters, a $4 billion branch of the giant food ...READ»

ETHICS | 6 comments

Coke and Pepsi Unite to Fight Crime

Relevancy Score: 75
Thu Jul 6, 2006 at 3:57 PM

A female Coca-Cola employee and two men were arrested in Atlanta yesterday for allegedly stealing confidential information from the Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell it to PepsiCo Inc. Pepsi alerted their rival when a letter, sealed ...READ»

SUSTAINABILITY | 4 comments

Sustainability: Bottled Water Gets a Bad Rap

Relevancy Score: 68
Thu Nov 8, 2007 at 11:35 AM

This just in: the bottled water industry is actually good for the environment. That's what Kim Jeffrey, chief executive of Nestle Waters, claims in a recent Q&A for the New York Times. Not only do bottled water companies work hard ...READ»

COCA COLA | 1 comment

First Look: Coke Juices Up Its MinuteMaid Packaging

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 66
Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 12:51 PM

In round two of the juice packaging cage match that started late last year with the Tropicana fiasco, Minute Maid unveils a new look that hews to its heritage.READ»

FISH ON FRIDAY | 4 comments

Coming Clean on 'AquaFib'

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 53
Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 2:41 PM

The No. 1 bottled water in the country, Pepsico’s Aquafina, is re-purified municipal drinking water. Yep: Pepsi bottlers around the country tap into the local tap water supply, put the water through an intensive purification ...READ»

STRATEGY | 1 comment

PepsiCo's Healthy Project in the 'hood

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 3:37 PM

Here's an interesting story of a company taking a grassroots approach to market a new product. The product: PepsiCo's Baked Doritos and Baked Lay's potato chips -- an attempt at an image overhaul as the company is often criticized ...READ»

GUEST HOSTS: KAPLAN THALER + KOVAL | 12 comments

Can Starbucks Be Supersized?

Relevancy Score: 49
Mon Feb 2, 2004 at 4:04 PM

In Bang! we talk about the success of Starbucks being the experience, not the coffee. It's about a daily indulgence, a little escapism. How else could they get us to spend $3.50 on a cup of coffee, the smallest of which is called a ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Andy Pearson, Remembered

Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 11:51 AM

Andrall ("Andy") Pearson died March 11 in Palm Beach at the age of 80. Pearson was a friend of the family, as they say--one of the original seed investors in Fast Company and a guy who helped shape the focus and strategy of the ...READ»

INNOVATION | 2 comments

Starbucks Offers Free Coffee to Voters

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 46
Mon Nov 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM

“If you care enough to vote, we care enough to give you a free cup of coffee.” So goes Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) advertisement depicting the coffee chain's contribution to the presidential election. “Simply vote, and ask ...READ»

GLOBAL BUSINESS | 2 comments

Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

BY Anne C. Lee
Relevancy Score: 45
Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM

The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Jones Soda's Secret

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:05 AM

Peter van Stolk is getting people jonesin' for his soda by turning the brand over to them.READ»

COLA WARS | Comment

Latest Cola Wars Skirmish: Battle for the Greenest Vending Machines

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 42
Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Vending machine purchases often elicit feelings of guilt about the sugar and fat contents of soda and candy, but rarely about the greenhouse gas emissions of the machine itself. Soda vendors know, though, that their machines use ...READ»

COCA-COLA | 3 comments

The Sustainable Cola Wars March On With Coke's "Commitment 2020" Plan

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 40
Thu Jul 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM

The green cola wars began in March, when both Pepsi and Coke made good on their plans to remove toxic hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from their vending machines. Now the wars continue as Coke attempts to best Pepsi in overall ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Java Man

BY Nick Reding
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:09 AM

As one of only 48 certified coffee graders in the country, Ed Faubert sits at the center of a $19 billion industry. READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Experience the Real Thing

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:10 AM

A Coke bottle, one of the most recognizable shapes in the world, gives shape to the Coca-Cola branding experience in Las Vegas, where nostalgia, storytelling, and technology create a magic formula.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Beverage Marketers Have Created Idea Triggers Better Than Anyone.

BY Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

They're so good that they're routinely co-opted for political purposes.READ»

BLOGJAM 2005 | 1 comment

Corporate Marketing Is a Conversation

Relevancy Score: 33
Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 9:16 PM

I'm very impressed that Fast Company is opening up its server space to its audience in celebraton of the blogjam 2005. It represents an openness that we don't see much from business publications, and certainly not from the corporate ...READ»

FISH ON FRIDAY | 1 comment

Bottled water: Answering a Math Question

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 32
Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 5:05 PM

A reader of “Message in a Bottle,” my story about bottled water from the new issue of Fast Company, asked a question about the sales and pricing numbers in the story. He didn’t think they added up — if we buy 50 billion ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2006 | 2 comments

The Glass Ceiling vs. the Gray Ceiling

Relevancy Score: 30
Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 8:24 PM

At a women's leadership conference last week, Sherry Lansing, former chair of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group, shared a story meant to encourage the women in attendance to keep on keepin' on. Thirty years ago, she said, ...READ»

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