WNBA Sky Ink Five-Year Local TV Deal Mercury Proudly Promoting Brittney Griner Chevy Using ManU Deal To Tap Chinese Market Griner Now Set To Be Face Of WNBA State Farm Signs Multiyear Deal With WNBA Griner A Key Cog In WNBA Rebranding Pittsburgh Not Charging Teams For Parking Weekend Plans With WNBA President Laurel Richie Selig Will Not Meet San Jose Mayor San Jose Mayor Seeks Selig Meeting
Upcoming Conferences and Events
SBD/8/Sponsorships Advertising Marketing
MARKETPLACE ROUND-UP
Published January 8, 1998
SUPER BOWL NOTES: M&M/Mars will break a BBDO Worldwide,
NY, ad campaign for its new M&M's Millennium promo during
the Super Bowl (AD AGE, 1/8)....Steelers players are upset
over T-shirts being distributed featuring Broncos RB Terrell
Davis that reads, "Salute This! ... Broncos, Super Bowl
XXXII." The shirt is stapled to the bulletin boards and
walls in the Steelers' locker room (N.Y. POST, 1/8).
NOTES: CNS' Breathe Right nasal stripes are profiled in
the HARTFORD COURANT. Breathe Right accounted for "nearly"
$70M in wholesale sales in '97, while retail sales
"approached" $100M. Around 10% of the Breathe Strips
stripes "are used in the athletic arena" (HARTFORD COURANT,
1/8)....The WNBA's Cynthia Cooper will make an appearance on
behalf of Buick Motor Division during the '98 North American
Int'l Auto Show in Detroit (GM)....Woolworth Corp. assigned
its Champs Sports account to Publicis/Bloom, NY (AD AGE,
1/8)....Saint Francis Health System will be the title
sponsor for the '98 Nat'l Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics
Div. I Men's Basketball Nat'l Championship Tournament, March
17-23 in Tulsa, OK (NAIA)....The New York Marriott Marquis
was named official hotel sponsor of "An All Star Evening For
Hunter's Hope," a January 15 fundraiser at NY's Official All
Star Cafe which will benefit the Hunter's Hope Foundation,
launched earlier this year by Jim and Jill Kelly, for their
son, Hunter, diagnosed with Krabbe Disease (Marriott).




