Month: December 2010

  • Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 2

    When I started writing this post, I found many fragrance commercials on Youtube – enough to put in a second post.  In case you are wondering why I am writing about this topic, the following is an excerpt from one of my earlier posts: I am always curious about the promotion of fragrances  – how does…

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  • Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 1

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlF22oSslNM&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] Justin Timberlake for Givenchy Play Continuing with the theme of fragrance marketing, I saw a bunch of TV commercials just before Christmas on UK channels and noticed many pop and even movie celebrities playing the lead in these 30-45 seconds clips.  Most movie celebrities do not let their TV commercials show in US territory…

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  • Berlin: Even more KaDeWe sausages

    8 (107) KaDeWe’s delicatessen is rumored to sell more than 1000 types of sausages. To test the rumor,  I started counting the number of price tags in each display case in my last post. Click here to see the earlier post (and more sausages… ). The fun continues here … the bracketed number is the…

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  • Berlin: KaDeWe’s 1000 sausages

    12 (12) Rumors has it that KaDeWe’s delicatessen on the sixth floor carries more than 1000 types of sausages.  I did an estimate to test the rumor.  Here is the evidence, presented in two posts. I have counted the number of price tags and put the number under each picture, along with the running total.…

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  • Berlin: KaDeWe – Gourmet Bouillabaisse

    On my last day in Berlin, it was raining and the wind harsh. Stay indoors was the advice offered by the hotel concierge. KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) is the second largest department store in Europe, after Harrods in London.  But the food hall on the sixth floor, in my opinion, is bigger and better than…

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  • Berlin: private cabaret in a museum

    On the last evening of the meeting, the company organized a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin at Leipziger Straße 16).  The museum is beautiful but the content is really suitable for family with children. We had the whole museum to ourselves.  We roamed leisurely champagne in hand, explored and…

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