Perhaps even weirder concoctions from the beverage division, which is more tight-lipped because of heated competition in the category from Coca-Cola (nasdaq: COKE - news - people ).
Given the growing competition in the category -- most notably from its rival Samsung with the Galaxy Note series -- it was inevitable that a stronger campaign, as well as a leader to drive it, was necessary.
In the midst of the increasing competition in the category, those wacky folks up in South Burlington, Vermont decided to pay homage to a 13-year-old Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin as bakery owner, Pete Schweddy, who offered a distinctive holiday dessert called Schweddy Balls.
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the competition, CNN and Multichoice added a general news Lusophone category thereby expanding the competition further to include entries in Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe.
And in a world where competition in every brand category is only increasing, identifying a relevant way to set your brand apart can only help.
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Ironically, at the core of competitive strategy is deception, and Groupon holding out baits to entice the competition to promote the category while killing off the smaller players that are flanking it.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the CNN African Journalist of the Year competition, CNN has also announced the addition of a general news Lusophone category thereby expanding the competition further to include entries in Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe.
One category loaded with competition is best song written for a motion picture or for television.
The inclusion of a Francophone category makes the competition truly Pan-African and representative of the range and diversity of Africa's journalism talent.
The number of samples he provided in competition, in the highest category listed as seven or more, put him in the minority, too.
Scorsese, if shortlisted, will face strong competition in the Oscars best director category.
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Profit margins for these devices will be high, and the category will likely attract competition from outside the mobile phone industry.
And while history has shown us what competition will do to margins in an increasingly commoditized hardware category, this is a new type of cycle where margins have held up for Apple despite competition.
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Margaret also paid tribute to the Kennel Club for introducing the new category for mongrels to the competition.
The 125cc category is the entry level competition in MotoGP.
It was put forward by Brazil for competition in the Oscars' best foreign film category in 2003 but was not even nominated.
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They were informing me that Taste Savant had been chosen as one of three finalists in the tech category of their Start Small, Go Big entrepreneurship competition!
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The arrival of sophisticated competition has usurped their dominance, but the validation of the category by the likes of Google and Amazon could provide the answer, not put the kibosh on its survival.
It blamed competition from cheap entry-level products in emerging markets, a category it does not participate in.
Bruce Roe, who says he has been in more world competitions and taken more trophies (five) than any other American, believes that designating one category as superior to another misses the point of the competition.
The group, who last year reached the semi-finals of Sky's Must Be the Music competition, thanked their travelling fans for helping them win both their genre category and the overall prize.
As the latest product in a lineage of devices that defined this category, the iPad continues to stand head and shoulders above the competition.
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With his oversight as CEO of Clear Channel, Pittman is once again not just taking on the competition (his own former company included), but reinventing a media brand category altogether.
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The launch of the CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition held in partnership with the SABC, sees the addition of a new "General News" category for the Francophone press.
Competition among plans will ensure the Goldilocks result that premiums are neither too high nor too low for each category of insured.
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Honors were handed out by Brian Williams, anchor of the NBC broadcast network's Nightly News. (Minami, who has Korean heritage, wowed the crowd with traditional ethnic finery.) Against the best competition in the U.S., FORBES has won or been runner-up in this OPC category in four of the last six years.
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