Entries for March 1 2005
Gum Summit
(UK) Councils across the UK are campaigning for people to pay an extra 'penny-a-packet' for chewing gum. This proposed 'tax' will help pay for cleaning it from the streets which runs to the annual total of £150million per year. UK gum sales are worth an estimated £258m a year…
Pepsi and Marketing to Children
(US) Pepsi has self-imposed marketing restrictions on itself in response to the global issue of childhood obesity. Bascially, they will not advertise to the under 12 market. 'Our intent is not to just beat our chests and try to take credit for what we're doing,' said Irene Rosenfeld, the…
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