Author: Leslie Kraemer

Say Hello to our New York transplant with a mean kick!

I’m relatively new to Charlotte (actually, I’m not sure i can still say that – I’ve been living in Charlotte for over a year and a half now, but I still need an excuse for…

Swedish Fish Are Only The Beginning

Cola snakes, lemon gummy hearts, strange chalky hard candies tasting mainly of salt, bi-color gummies that seem to claim medicinal properties, yogurt-covered candies, squishy fruit gumdrops with strange menthol undertastes.  Recently a couple of members…

Check Out The New Doritos Global Packaging Design

When consumers can connect instantly across international borders on social media, does it make sense, from a shopper marketing standpoint, for brands to keep separate identities in different countries? Doritos doesn’t think so, which is…

Using Über-Thin Models May Be Hurting Your Brand

  Forget the size zero supermodels – bigger girls can mean bigger profits say researchers. A new study from Warwick Business School has found that when consumers are blatantly exposed to idealised images of thin, beautiful…