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A summary for Corporate Marketers, Media Sales Executives and Advertising Agencies to see what clients are moving into the Hispanic market and/or targeting Hispanic consumers right now.

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  • Coca-Cola

imagesCoca-Cola Co. (KO) has bought a 16.7% percent stake of country’s No. 2 energy-drink maker Monster Beverage Corp. (MNST), for US $2.15 billion.  The deal gives Coca-Cola greater exposure to the energy drinks market, one of the fastest-growing segments in the beverage industry. Coke,which already distributes Monster in about half the U.S., plans to expand Monster’s distribution footprint “in a major and meaningful way.” Coke will become Monster’s preferred distribution partner globally, while Monster brands will be the only energy drinks distributed by Coke.

  • Constellation Brands

constellationBrands-Constellation Brands, a leading Mexican beverage alcohol company, has acquired the Casa Noble tequila brand, including its’ trademark and related assets. The agreement is expected to close in September 2014 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Further terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Constellation Brands has all Grupo Modelo brands’ exclusive sales rights in US. This purchase, according to chief executive officer Rob Sands, complements the Mexican beer brands portfolio perfectly to leverage the existing routes-to-market and reach Hispanic consumers. Back in 2013, Grupo Modelo introduced Modelo Especial Chelada in US markets, bringing an authentic Mexican recipe to the brands’ Hispanic consumers. Portada interviewed Jim Sabia, CMO, Crown Imports on that launch.

  • Aeromexico

descarga (1)Aeromexico, has announced the operation of its fourth weekly flight between Merida and Miami, as of November 8th this year, to increase its domestic and international connectivity.This new service will operate on Saturdays and, as the current three frequencies, will be operated with an Embraer 190 airplane configured with 99 passenger seats, 11 in the Clase Premier cabin.Incoming passengers from Miami will be able to take this flight to connect to Villahermosa and Mexico City, and to 44 additional domestic destinations 35 international cities from the Mexican capital city.

  • Acura 

descargaThe official home of luxury automotive brand Acura is launching its new luxury sedan along with a huge marketing campaign The brand TLX model new campaign includes a significant investment in digital video, but no broadcast primetime TV, Ad Age reports. More than one-third of the ad budget will be for digital and Facebook will get another substantial chunk. Acura will also take over major Web portals such as Yahoo and MSN. TV ads will run on platforms such as Hulu and Crackle, and traditional TV spots will air during NFL games and SportsCenter among other cable shows. (see note below about digital marketing and media buying agencies for the Acura brand). This is the Acura’s first major campaign since it was separated from Honda. Here is Acura’s TXL “My Way” video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7PcYMH67c

  • Hewlett-Packard

descarga (2)Hewlett-Packard Is launching a commercial for its notebook and also tablet Pavillion x360 that is comprised entirely of six-second Vines, the Twitter-owned looping video platform, The Wall Street Journal reports. To carry out the spot , marketing agency Niche had to recruit Vine talent. HP’s creative agency 180LA worked with the talent who had relative freedom to create their own Vines for the commercial.

  • Puma

descarga (3)Puma  is about to launch its’ Forever Faster” marketing campaign featuring its lineup of athletes including sprinter Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man; men’s soccer star Mario Balotelli; women’s soccer legend Marta; and golfers Rickie Fowler and Lexi Thompson. The kickoff spot is called Calling All Troublemakers, in which the athletes flex their credentials as rebels and rule breakers not on the field, but splashing in a hot tub. They invite viewers to join them .The campaign will begin in North America, Latin and Asia-Pacific and then roll out to Europe, the Middle East and Africa shortly afterwards.Ads, from JWT, include print, TV, digital and social.

  • Burger King

descarga (4)Burger King will offer again is chicken fries after a two-year gap when it dropped them from its menu. To promote the delicious chicken fries, the fast food chain will release a new campaign led by Code and Theory, Burger King’s digital agency, that will include one TV spot. Each Thursday, the chain will rerun a 2005 chicken fries spot. The commercial, originally created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, was modified by BK’s lead global agency David. BK will focus mostly on digital platforms to market the return.

  • J.C. Penney

descarga (5)National retailer J.C. Penney is releasing the major promotion “Love, Liz Claiborne” to revitalize sales and appeal customers, especially women aged 35-50. Ads will run in magazines such as InStyle, Real Simple, Redbook and People and on AOL, BuzzFeed and Hulu. TV spots may also be added. OMD is Penney’s media agency. Around US $1.1 million were invested to advertise the Liz Claiborne line in 2012, but nothing during 2013 and nothing through the first quarter of 2014.

  • American Honda

descarga (6)Publicis Groupe agency has been selected to oversee digital marketing for both the Honda and Acura brands, after an eight-month review. Digital was previously split among several agencies, including Meredith Xcelerated Marketing, Genex, RPA and Mullen. RPA will continue to handle creative for Honda, as will Mullen for Acura. MediaVest continues as the media agency for both brands.

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