Sunday, July 13, 2025

Warren Buffet’s Diet Is Quite Amazing

Regular exercise, healthy eating habits, truckloads of money – only one of these applies to Warren Buffet, although his argument might make some sense after all.

Wednesday Morning Spice

Coca-Cola earnings shock. Apple’s mammoth market value. Whitney’s daughter to die on same day. French baby-swap case payout. Britain to get driveless cars very soon. Parliament tells DA to pay back the money. SA rhino horn sale?

Wednesday Morning Spice

Coca-Cola’s Olympics PR nightmare. ANC calls DA’s Ramphele move ‘rent-a-black.’ Italian Mafia executes 3-year-old. Depp engaged. The iPod is over. The Pope is officially a rockstar. Prince sues fans. Universal boss urges Bieber intervention.

Coca-Cola Defends Sweetener Dangers Amid Declining Sales

Coca-Cola has launched a new print advertising campaign which some have called a “propaganda campaign” in an attempt to reverse declining sales. The ads show the company defending the use of its sweetener, aspartame. The ad reads, “time and again, these low and no calorie sweeteners have shown to be safe, high-quality alternatives to sugar”.

Merger Of World’s Biggest Ad Agencies Brings Pepsi And Coca-Cola Together

News broke this morning of the largest corporate advertising merger in the history of the industry, bringing giants Omnicom and Publicis under the same roof. But Omnicom counts Pepsi as one of its biggest clients, while Publicis does work for Coca-Cola. That’s the greatest brand war of modern times, right there, in the same house. So, how do they overcome this problem?

Radvertising: Coke Makes Bottles Out Of Ice [VIDEO]

There is nothing better than an ice-cold Coke and the Coca-Cola Co in Cartagena Columbia, along with Ogilvy & Mather Columbia, decided to use some fun to get this icy point across. Click through to check out the awesome video.

5 Of The Sneakiest Moves Ever Made In Global Business

Sometimes you have to take a risk to get to where you want to be. We have put together five examples that show how some brands took one courageous leap and found themselves catapulted into the history books. Introducing the top five “shrewdest, smartest maneuvers you’ve ever seen in business.”

Radvertising: The Real Bears Anti-Soft Drink Ad Angers Industry [VIDEO]

An American ad agency, together with the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, have thrown down the gauntlet to the giants of the soft drink industry with a controversial new three-and-a-half minute video that looks at the health risks of the overconsumption of sugary, carbonated drinks.

2012’s Top Ten Global Brands

International brand consultancy Interbrand released its rankings of the world’s biggest brands yesterday, and there are some interesting shifts to take note of. We’ve already reported on Google being ranked higher than Microsoft, but where do our other favourite brands fall in the world’s top ten?

The Can Of Pepsi That Cost Ronaldhino $750 000

The rivalry between Coke and Pepsi has been raging for years, each company claiming its own army of celebrity endorsers, sports stars often making up the majority. So what happens when one of these stars drinks from the forbidden cup, like Ronaldhino did at a recent press conference?

RADVERTISING: Coca-Cola’s Awesome New Ad Restores Faith In Humanity [VIDEO]

Every day, around the world, security cameras silently observe us. Tirelessly they wait and watch, hoping to capture something significant. Usually, the only footage that ever sees the light of day is the kind that implicates someone in a crime or offence, but in reality they capture so much more. Click through for a glimpse of the heart-warming side of surveillance.

Stop Everything – The Coca-Cola Recipe Has Been Leaked [Updated]

But not by Julian Assange. This American Life reports that the recipe was published as a photograph on page 28 of the Atlantic Journal-Constitution newspaper in 1979 as part of an inconspicuous historical piece on the Coca-Cola company, but the small size of the newspaper, the poor placement of the article and a complete lack of the World Wide Web meant that the historical leak went unnoticed. You can see it after the jump.