PepsiCo Inc has priced the company’s first ever Green Bond. The net proceeds from the USD 1 billion Green Bond offering will fund a series of key initiatives to advance PepsiCo’s sustainability agenda. The company also named PepsiCo leader Simon Lowden as its first Chief… Read More
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has formed a new leadership team and elected Mastercard’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Raja Rajamannar, as its new President. He will serve a two-year term as WFA President, with the option to extend for a further two years.… Read More
If you have ever been in Saudi Arabia, and are familiar with the kingdom’s culture, it is impossible that you walk away from this Pepsi ad without that hair-raising experience, when a message just hits home. The results reiterate the success of the message. Since… Read More
In preparation of Expo 2020, Dubai is signing on partners who would collaborate to create an unprecedented experience for the 25 million global visitors expected to attend the event. As is known, Expo 2020 will take place between October 20, 2020 and April 10, 2021.… Read More
PepsiCo has upped the ante on its digital play. Even as digital consumes only a marginal portion of the overall ad pie in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, PepsiCo is experimenting with retail tech including ecommerce, bots and the likes to not… Read More
BBDO & Proximity Pakistan has collaborated with PepsiCo to create a new campaign for the energy drink, Sting, titled #StingChallenge. Partnering with one of the world’s youngest Olympic medalist for boxing, Amir Khan, BBDO created a TV commercial that showed fans helping Amir train for… Read More
PepsiCo and Algerian football superstar Riyad Mahrez have teamed up as part of an ‘Algerian Pride’ campaign to inspire younger people to reach for their dreams and rally the country around football. The move is part of PepsiCo’s efforts to stir Algeria’s passion and love… Read More
Marking the largest partnership between the two brands to date, PepsiCo is the exclusive global launch partner for Twitter’s newest ad product, Promoted #Stickers. As part of the partnership, Pepsi will secure featured placement in the #Stickers library in ten countries across five continents,… Read More
Proving its creative prowess once again, Leo Burnett’s Beirut office has won a Grand Prix in the Promo & Activation category at the 10th Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity. The agency’s work ‘Merry Balconies’ for P&G has also won a Silver in addition to… Read More
There may be the lesser evolved that still view corporate social responsibility (CSR) as something forced upon corporates or a must-do that has to be tick marked in an annual calendar. However, leaders – both from business arena and of society – in the Middle… Read More
