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

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

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  • Post Holdings Brands

Post Holdings Brands has selected Minneapolis agency Public Works as agency of record for its cereal brand Honey Bunches of Oats. Public Works already works with a number 0f Post brands, including Pebbles, Honeycomb, Malt-O-Meal and Great Grains, but Honey Bunches of Oats represents the largest assignment from the client. The agency, which launched last year and employs around 13, also works with the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and Warner Bros. In 2016, Post Consumer Brands appointed LatinWorks Hispanic Marketing Agency of Record for its Hispanic-investment brands. Spark-MediaVest(now Spark Foundry) will remain Post Consumer Brands’ media agency of record.

 

 

  • Cardenas Markets LLC

The newly formed Cardenas Markets LLC, the result of the recent merger between Cardenas Markets and California-based Hispanic chains Mi Pueblo Markets, aims to become largest Hispanic retailer in U.S. by adding between 5-10 stores per year going forward. According to John Gomez, the combined company’s CEO, Cardenas Markets has grown 50% in the last six months. Gomez suggests the strength comes from marketing to a growing demographic such as the Hispanic. The company is considering using only the Cardenas brand and operating model in the near future and shedding the Mi Pueblo label.Based in Ontario, Calif., Cardenas Markets currently has 47 stores with 15 being from the former Mi Pueblo network and one a result of the merger.The company is currently only operating on the West Coast and along the Southwest but hopes to expand towards the East in the future.

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  • Amazon

E commerce giant Amazon, which last week launched a review of its global media planning and buying account, is targeting Hispanic consumers to lure them away from traditional retailers like Target and Walmart, and those consumers are responding positively, Ad Age reports. Amazon is drawing away more Hispanic sales dollars. Hispanic consumers are shopping less at retail stores, citing an 11% drop in shopping visits by Spanish-dominant households in November and December. Meanwhile, Amazon has started a Spanish version of its website and is offering Amazon Prime subscriptions in Mexico. In a survey by market research company IRI, some 23% of U.S. Hispanics said they shop with Amazon at least monthly, compare with 20% of non-Hispanics.The buying power of the nation’s 57 million Hispanics reached US$1.4 trillion last year, 10% of the U.S. total, according to Nielsen. IPG Mediabrands Initiative handles Amazon global media AOR, while WPP’s MEC handles U.S. digital media-buying.

  • Chobani

The yogurt maker Chobani is undertaking a refocused marketing and sales plan to beat rival Dannon as the largest yogurt company in the U.S., Ad Age reports. Its new strategy will be to roll out a new organizational structure: Chobani’s sales, marketing, insights, product innovation and other units, which were largely operated separately, have been brought together in one department, allowing the company to operate with more speed and agility. The brand has also plans for a different sales approach. Chobani currently holds about a 20% share of the overall yogurt market, with about 38% of the Greek Yogurt market.

 

  • Target Corp. 

Target Corp. announced a US $14 million commitment to youth soccer through two new national initiatives, including an US$8 million local grant program, and a US$6 million partnership with the U.S. Soccer Foundation to build 100 new soccer play spaces by 2020. These are the latest investments by Target in the country’s fast-growing youth sport, and build on relationships with Major League Soccer, Minnesota United FC, US Youth Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Foundation, which were unveiled earlier this year.Through a national application process, Target will provide US$1,000 grants to eligible schools, government agencies, non-profit organizations and non-profit regional/local soccer organization on behalf of each Target store and distribution center in the U.S. All eligible organizations can apply online at Target.com/grants through noon CST Aug 30. The first year of grants will be awarded in November 2017.The first three play spaces built through the partnership will come to life in Chicago – home to the 2017 MLS All-Star Game presented by Target – in 2017. Additional locations and cities will be announced at a later date.The announcement deepens Target’s commitment to furthering youth soccer’s considerable growth in the U.S. and builds on the retailer’s current support of US Youth Soccer.

Jason Riveiro has been appointed as Senior Marketing Partner at American Modern Insurance (AMIG).  Previously, Jason worked as Chief Marketing Officer at NAHREP (National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.) At AMIG, Riveiro will be working on strategy and branding.

 

 

 

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