Wal-Mart and Amazon battled to capture spending over the holiday weekend, as the shifts that have upended the retail industry this year were on display: fewer people visited traditional stores on Thanksgiving and Black Friday while online purchases continued to surge.
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Beleidsmedewerker waterkwaliteit (Apeldoorn)
Voor het Team Schoon Water binnen de afdeling Planvorming zijn wij op zoek naar een Beleidsmedewerker waterkwaliteit.
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Homeowners Rush to Prepay 2018 Property-Tax Bills
Homeowners across the nation are rushing this week to prepay their property taxes for 2018 before the Republican tax law kicks in Jan. 1 and effectively raises the levy on higher-end homes.
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Walmart pulls Lord Ganesha plush doll following furious response from Hindus
Hindus have vented their fury against Walmart, which has now withdrawn the sale of Ganesh Plush Doll.
Lord Ganesha in Hindu religion is regarded as God of obstacles and worshiped by everyone and Walmart’s product description that “now he’s also the god of cuddliness” offended everyone.
Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism thanked Walmart for understanding the concerns of Hindu community which thought that marketing Lord Ganesh as a plush doll was trivializing and insensitive.
Zed further suggested that Walmart and other companies should send their senior executives for training in religious and cultural sensitivity so that they had an understanding of the feelings of customers and communities when introducing new products or launching advertising campaigns.
Earlier, Meat & Livestock Australia was urged to withdraw ad featuring Ganesh amid Hindu protest
Elon Musk Touts Tesla Pickup Plans, Though Light on Detail
Elon Musk teased details for a pickup truck that would challenge Ford Motor Co. and others in one of their most lucrative segments—though, true to form, the Tesla Inc. chief was vague about his intentions.
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Cision Acquires Real-Time 'Earned Media' Tracker Prime Research
Cision, publisher of databases for public relations and marketing communication professionals, has acquired Prime Research, a company that measures and analyzes the impact of PR and so-called “earned
media” across social, digital, print and broadcast. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Chicago-based Cision has more than 3,000 employees in at countries and Germany-based Prime Research has
more than 700 employees with offices in the U.S., the U.K., Brazil, China and Switzerland.
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Spotify Moving Closer To NYSE Listing
Spotify will receive approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to move forward with a
listing of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper calls the approval “a key step in the music-streaming service’s plan to
avoid a traditional initial public offering.”
How to Leverage Instagram in 2018
Over the past 12 months, Instagram has released a near-constant series of updates. From the Superzoom creative tool and ad stop-motion camera to enable the creation of GIFs, to the ability to comment with visual media and right-to-left language support, the platform has been opened up to a wide range of new languages and audiences….
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Coca-Cola Unveils Olympics Share a Coke Bottles
The athletes will also be featured in out-of-home advertising, digital content and promotions for limited-edition, Olympics-inspired Coca-Cola Freestyle machine flavors.
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Spotify Closes In on Unusual IPO That Boxes Out Bankers
Spotify is expected to get regulatory approval to move forward with listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, a key step in the music service’s plan to avoid a traditional IPO.
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