Huffington Post
Tic Tac USA tweeted: "Tic Tac respects all women. We find the recent statements and behavior completely inappropriate and unacceptable." The tweet was in response to a video from 2005 in which Trump can be heard saying he must have some Tic Tac breath mints before greeting actress Arianne Zucker, with whom he was about to tape a scene.
Econsultancy
H&M's latest campaign has been met with a flurry of positivity from people on Twitter and other social networks. H&M's less-than-glamorous approach places fashion in the context of every day, depicting women wearing clothes exactly how they would actually be worn in real life situations - not on a runway or in front of a green screen.
Gulf Business
Dubai carrier Emirates has unveiled a new digital and TV advertising campaign featuring actress Jennifer Aniston. The airline previously teamed up with the "Friends" star in a $5 million ad deal last year. In the short clip, Aniston is shown enjoying a shower onboard an Emirates A380 before returning to her first class seat to find a child playing with a toy plane.
Drinks Business Review
Crown Royal has expanded its family of whiskies with the introduction of a new vanilla-flavored whiskey. Its launch will be supported through the implementation of a full marketing mix including television, print and online advertising, as well as public relations, digital extensions and point of sale materials featuring the tagline, "Vanilla So Good."
Fast Company
After overseeing Beats By Dre's rise to become one of the most stylish and best brand storytellers around, Chief Marketing Officer Omar Johnson announced today he will be leaving the company Nov. 1. Working with agency R/GA, he oversaw the brand's transition from a curiosity to a constant presence in pop culture.
USA Today
Walt Disney World closed at 5 p.m. Thursday and planned to remain shuttered Friday. Guests have been evacuated from some resorts. Many stores, restaurants and other businesses have shut down. Total economic losses to the state's businesses could be in the tens of billions of dollars and even rival the $70 billion in damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
Automobile Magazine
Cool cars abound at the 2016 Paris auto show, but dig a bit deeper, walk around the darker corners of the less-trafficked halls, and you come across cars that are ... interesting. That's not to say the major manufacturers aren't also occasionally doing their best to defy all rules of logic and aesthetics-they certainly are.
Delish
This December, The Hershey Co. will debut its Cookie Layer Crunch bars, which combine layers of cookies and filling topped with chocolate. This launch was announced after Mondelez fired shots against Hershey's, announcing it was coming after the U.S. chocolate market, bringing a similarly layered bar to the States, the Oreo Milka bars.
Boston Globe
JetBlue Airways is making another attempt for permission to fly between Boston and Cuba, petitioning the U.S. government to strip a rival airline of a new route between Los Angeles and Havana and replace it with a flight from Logan Airport. JetBlue is asking the government to reject a request by Alaska Airlines for more time to get the flight up and flying.
Chain Store Age
Eddie Lampert, the beleaguered CEO of Kmart parent company Sears Holdings Corp., says the discount retail story is not going out of business, despite rumors to the contrary. Lampert notes that Kmart continues to operate more than 700 stores, a significant number of which are profitable. Kmart's second-quarter same-store sales fell 3.3%.