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Glad Named Mardi Gras’ First Corporate Sponsor

The Glad Products Company has signed on as Mardis Gras’ first-ever high-level program sponsor. In addition to its program commitment, Glad will work with the City of New Orleans Department of Sanitation in the carnival’s sanitation maintenance and clean-up efforts. Glad will donate more than 100,000 trash bags and be named the “official trash bag of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.”

According to MediaBuys, additional sponsors are soon to be announced, and corporate sponsorship opportunities for Mardi Gras are still available.

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Volvo Gets HD as Standard across Models

Volvo will become the first automaker to offer HD Radio as standard equipment in all but one of its 2009 models. The running change becomes effective next month on the 2009 Volvo model lineup.

“Our drivers expect the highest quality…

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‘Cottage Living’ Folds

The current issue of Cottage Living will be its last. Time Inc., in the midst of a major restructuring, is closing the books on the title.

The magazine had a solid start four years ago and managed to boost circulation…

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Macy’s Offers ‘Flippies’ Promo for T’Day Parade

Macy’s is hoping to drum up excitement about its famous annual Thanksgiving Day Parade by handing out flip books featuring familiar parade scenes, including Santa’s arrival at the parade during the grand finale.

The flip books were created by Flippies,…

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‘Project Runway’ Look-Alike Comes to Bravo while Lifetime Twiddles Thumbs

Project Runway is still deadlocked in legal tangles that could keep the show off the air indefinitely.

The program, originally on Bravo, was slated to move to Lifetime in January for its sixth season, but Bravo parent company NBCU is suing producer…

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Forbes Combines Print, Web

Forbes is combining its print and web staffs and reorganizing its sales and marketing teams in a move that will better enable the magazine to “weather the current economic storm,” says chairman-CEO Steve Forbes

The switch will mean a 43-job reduction,…

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Moms More Stressed, Worried about Kids

An overwhelming majority of mothers in America (90%) saw the economy getting weaker even before the collapse on Wall Street, and more of them now (40%) feel stressed about their current family life than feel good about the way things…

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