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Marketers like Starbucks discover that simple sells

October 28, 2009 by

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In a USA TODAY article by Bruce Horovitz, Simple is better. This could be 2010′s most powerful marketing mantra. If 2009′s hottest sales pitch was all about buying stuff on the cheap, 2010 marketing will increasingly stress less as more, as in fewer parts, additives or ingredients. Nowhere is it more apparent than with things… [Read more…]

Surgery cereals to children

October 28, 2009 by

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A lot has been written about marketing sugery cereals to children. In the late sixties Saturday morning TV was awash with commercials touting Ronald McDonald and “Sugar Pops are Tops”, “Trix are for Kids” and Cap’n Crunch. It fed right into the culture that sugar was good and anything on tv was fine. While middle… [Read more…]

Prune marketers stress quality, safety

October 28, 2009 by

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The key to success in the highly competitive world prune market is quality and food safety, and California’s prune sector stresses both of those elements as it markets its production. “Historically, it has been people over age 65 who have consumed most of the prunes, but we are trying to appeal to younger people by… [Read more…]

Affluent Shoppers Will Pay More for Safe, Healthy Food: Survey

October 27, 2009 by

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A new national survey of more affluent consumers from strategic marketing communications firm Context Marketing, “Beyond Organic — How Evolving Consumer Concerns Influence Food Purchases,” has found that most respondents are highly concerned about the safety of the food they buy and would pay more for food they believe to be safer or healthier. The… [Read more…]

California Drought Means More Imported Produce

October 26, 2009 by

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San Joaquin Valley, Where Half of U.S. Fruits and Vegetables are Grown, Hit Hard; State Considers More Water Restrictions In a story reported tonight on the CBS Evening News, the talk in sunny California these days is about water – specifically, the lack of it. Legislators there are working a sweeping plan to overhaul the… [Read more…]

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