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Findings from the Cone Holiday Trend Tracker, a nationwide poll to determine Americans' plans for charitable giving this holiday season, show that more than half of Americans intend to purchase a holiday gift that gives back a portion of the proceeds to a cause.

As an example of how marketers are using scent in advertising, Kraft Foods Inc. ran five rub-and-sniff ads for some of its products, including Chips Ahoy and Philadelphia Cream Cheese, in a special edition of Time Warner's People magazine, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Five years ago, Kellogg Company and its agency, Leo Burnett Worldwide, devised the Special K Challenge diet plan, which boosted Special K to become the company's No. 1 brand with an estimated $500 million in global sales.

The Coca-Cola Company's latest calorie-burning innovation, Enviga, hit the U.S. market in the Northeast this month and will roll out nationally in January 2007.

The Walt Disney Company introduced new food guidelines for licensed foods and promotions aimed at children.

Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) sold its Sure deodorant brand to Innovative Brands, the same company that bought Pert shampoo from the company earlier this year.

Kara Romanow sits down with Lisbeth Valther Pallesen, executive vice president, community, education & direct division for the LEGO Group.

SC Johnson, the $7-billion manufacturer of consumer household products, announces the U.S. launch of Glade PlugIns Scented Oil Light Show, an innovative new product enabled by a license to Color Kinetics' world-wide patent portfolio.