Category Archives: Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations

Very Cherre – Michigan grown cherry juice

Leelanau Tarts (fo-lomo) by farlane

Old Orchard Brands debuts 'Very Cherre' premier line of cherry juice on mLive begins:
Move over exotic pomegranate, acai and mangosteen. The All-American tart cherry could be the next rage in superhealthy “superfruits.”
Old Orchard Brands is giving the simple pie fruit a chic makeover with its introduction of a premier line of [...]

Report from the 2009 Michigan Downtown Conference

Michigan downtowns, courtesy the photographers of the Absolute Michigan pool.

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Today I'm at the Michigan Downtown Conference in Lansing. This morning I'll be posting some updates from the conference as I'm able. This afternoon I'm on a panel with Julielyn Gibbons, Ryan Knott and Bigby Coffee co-founder Bob Fish, talking about [...]

High Voltage claims from GM about Chevy Volt mileage

Chevy Volt by wizardkitten
Autotopia from WIRED reports that GM is claiming that the forthcoming Chevy Volt will get 230 MPG.
That’s more than four times higher than the Toyota Prius, the current EPA fuel-efficiency champ.
The figure is based on development testing using methodology drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency for plug-in hybrid vehicles. Company CEO Fritz [...]

Chapter & Verse on the General Motors Bankruptcy

I read the news today, oh boy. by Alana M. Layer
Like many in Michigan, I felt a profound sense of shock and unreality at yesterday's filing by GM for bankruptcy. It will probably come as a surprise to no one that Michigan will feel the brunt of the effects:
In the latest round of cutbacks, announced [...]

Chrysler 3D at the 1939 World's Fair

Boing Boing alerted us to 60 Minutes of Magic, a wonderful post with tons of photos and the rather strange video below. Iowahawk says that it all started when he found an original handout flyer for the Chrysler Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with a pair of 3-D glasses for the [...]

Grand Rapids ArtPrize: the city is the gallery

Thanks Matt for passing this one along...

inducement by powerbooktrance
Yesterday the city of Grand Rapids announced the ArtPrize, a competition open to artists of all kinds from around the world that will award nearly one-half million dollars to prize winners, including $250,000 to the artist who receives the most public votes. The display and voting will [...]

Are we doing tourism right in Michigan?

Carefree Days in West Michigan by loungelistener
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Michigan's tourism industry is expected to drop by 3-4 percent this year (this on top of last year's 6.2% drop) due to the economic downturn in Michigan and the rest of the country.
"This year will be an even more challenging year for Michigan's [...]

Newspocalypse Now

Extra! Extra! by E. Brow
The story earlier this week that the Ann Arbor News would be ceasing publication caught many by surprise. Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry (who also wrote an essay on newspapers last week) writes that he was shocked by the announcement:
Not downsizing, not going to Internet-only publication. Closing, as in, going out of [...]

10 Day Assembly Line Concert on behalf of Big Three

tntdavid was on hand for the opening of the Assembly Line Concert that featured Motown artist and Detroit City Council member Martha Reeves and trumpeter Walter White...

Welcome back to the Ross Sandelius Michigan Music Show. Yesterday Ross provided a photo for our Rothbury post and this morning he tipped me off to the 240-hour "Assembly Line" [...]

Somewhere in the late Cretaceous Era at the Detroit Auto Show

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by Andy Tanguay
Jack Lessenberry writes about the frustrations of journalists at the bare cupboard of swag at this year's Detroit Auto Show and the seeming idiocy of holding an event like this in sub-arctic Detroit in The fossil show in the Metro Times. He then says:
However, I actually think I might go to the auto [...]