Fox News
Fresh Express, which produces and distributes packaged salads to supermarkets across the country including Walmart, recalled a salad mix on Saturday after two people in Florida discovered a dead bat in a pack. The salad mix is only sold in Walmarts in the Southeastern region of the United States. The chain has since removed the items from store shelves.
USA Today
More than $75 million is being extracted from two of its former executives who were found to have been too slow to probe "improper and unethical behavior," according to "USA Today." The bank performed an inside study of Wells Fargo's scandal involving employees opening up accounts in customers' names without their knowledge or permission. Also, about 1,000 employees are being reinstated.
Brand Channel
Reebok is introducing bio-based materials to its footwear. Grown from corn, the sustainable plant-based shoes can be composted after use. The Cotton + Corn initiative is described as the first shoe "made from things that grow." The first-generation shoe is priced at under $100 and features an upper made with organic cotton and a base derived from industrially grown corn.
MLive
A former Detroit Tiger surprised a group of construction workers with autographed gear and tickets to the home opener in a promotion for a new line of sportswear from Carhartt. The Michigan-based workwear brand is partnering with '47, a Boston-based sports lifestyle brand, to create a new line of gear focused on the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.
Bloomberg
H&M is hoping spinoffs such as Cos can help expand its appeal beyond budget-conscious young shoppers. The retailer plans to add 80 stores from the company's half-dozen smaller brands this year, vs. 350 more H&M outlets. The Cos stores are more minimalist than H&M, appearing to a different buyer.
Complex
The same day PepsiCo decided to pull their protest-trivializing new ad starring Kendall Jenner, a protester in Portland, Ore., presented Mayor Ted Wheeler with a can of the recently maligned soda during a Portland City Council meeting. The protester was clearly influenced by the brief existence of that aforementioned Pepsi ad.
USA Today
The skit featured Beck Bennett playing the spot's excited creator who realizes the problem after it's too late. "It's an homage to the resistance," he said while explaining the ad's concept. "Isn't that like, the best ad ever?" Bennett's character asks people's opinion of the ad and becomes increasingly worried as he receives disapproving feedback.
Bloomberg
The company is offering unlimited data for $45 a month to its current TV and internet customers. It is the lowest among the top U.S. wireless carriers and is likely to further escalate a price war that has ravaged the industry. Comcast is seeking new sources of revenue as people cut the cord more often.
Marketing Land
A new Snapchat ad-targeting option lets advertisers send follow-up ads to the people who had previously interacted with one of their ads on the mobile app. And a new ad-buying option lets mobile app marketers price their bids on Snapchat's app-install ads in a way that makes it more likely the ads will get people to install their apps.
NYSportsJournalism.com
Led by TenCent, Sony, Activision Blizzard, Microsoft and Apple, and driven by eSports, mobile games and live-streaming, revenue in the global games market in 2016 hit $99.6 billion, with mobile games accounting for $36.9 billion, or 37% of the market. And growth is not expected to slow.