• Serena Williams Joins SurveyMonkey Board
    Serena Williams wants to know what's on your mind. And that includes such issues as the gender pay gap, the growth of technology and even whether people feel she will have a boy or a girl when she gives birth later this year. To uncover this information, Williams has joined the board of directors for leading online survey platform SurveyMonkey.
  • Home Depot Faces Backlash Over Founder's Food Stamp Comments
    During a recent appearance on Fox News, Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, discussed the Trump administration's $4.1 trillion budget plan for 2018, which includes a proposal to slash more than $800 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Langone claimed that people use food stamps to buy drugs, which sent the Twittersphere into a tailspin.
  • Gen Z May Be First To Ask, 'What's An Ad Break?'
    Fullscreen Media found that Facebook is seen by teenagers as the one platform with all three elements: utility, entertainment, and social. It studied the media consumption habits of Gen Z versus Millennials. Teens may not know what an ad break is, not having watched standard TV but they know what an ad is even if they are unaware of it.
  • Whole Foods' Unique Foodie Appeal Is Its Future
    Although it struggles after two years of sagging sales, you wouldn't know the company has any problems if you visit a Manhattan store, where customers line up for juice and espresso while diners gorge on salads and sushi. The foodie appeal is key to a turnaround if CEO John Mackey can improve operations.
  • Dove Releases First Real Beauty Movie
    After a majority of girls and women said they want media to show women with different body shapes, Dove launched Real Beauty Productions with Shonda Rhimes leading the way. On Monday, it released "Meet Cathleen," which follows Cathleen Meredith and her work with her dance group, Fat Girls Dance.
  • AT&T, Coke Join Brands Withdrawing Puerto Rican Day Parade Support
    The moves come in response to the inclusion of a Puerto Rican nationalist linked to terrorist acts. But New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to march anyway. Oscar Lopez Rivera served 35 years in prison for a nationwide bombing campaign in the 1970s and 1980s. His sentence was commuted in January by President Obama.
  • Vice Helps Lululemon Find Its Unique Selling Proposition
    Vice made the athleisure wear brand feel uncomfortable in a good way, said Duke Stump, an executive vice-president at the company, who interviewed dozens of advertising and marketing agencies. With a Venn diagram, Vice put the brand at the intersection of "personal impact" and "purposeful life."
  • Coach Is Set To Party Like It's 1975
    If you are still dreaming of orange jumpsuits, you're going to love Coach's NASA-themed collection, Coach Space. It's full of 1970s designs and colors. This collection brings the colorful, powerful explorer out whether you're an astrophysicist or a casual stargazer.
  • Kale, Kale, And More Kale: How Food Trends Heat Up
    Kale, za'atar, the cronut. Food trends, whether created by chefs and mimicked by other restaurateurs or designed to fill menu holes for a food company, are monitored by companies that track and report on them, making it easier for other companies to hop aboard. They are influenced by many things, from fashion and pop culture to health fads.
  • Dallas Grocery Store Growing Herbs, Greens, Spices
    An H-E-B Central Market store in the Texas city is working with Growtainer to build an onsite custom and climate-controlled space. The production space is reported to contain an irrigation system and is capable of growing many layers of produce.
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