Apparently and unfortunately, even “The Greatest 2 Minutes in Sports” is not recession-proof. This year’s Kentucky Derby is set to take place on Saturday but with fewer sponsors. Bill Mudd, CFO of Churchill Downs has said that corporate demand for tickets and sponsorships at this year’s race are way down.”We have seen some softness in […]
Entries from April 2009
Advertisers Tighten the Reigns on Derby
April 30, 2009
Being Green Isn’t Good Enough
April 30, 2009
A new poll shows that consumers may not be as inclined to buy green products in a recession as they had been before. “Pollsters Populus surveyed 1,999 adults to gauge how environmental concerns had shifted since the onset of the recession. They found 81 per cent of respondents paid more attention to cost/value than to […]
Pet-friendly, but with a limit
April 29, 2009
I don’t know about you, but when I do my research about a certain hotel and acknowledge that they are pet-friendly, I wouldn’t assume it depends on how much they weigh. Restrictions do apply, but in small letters, of course.
Bringing your pet on vacation has become quite popular in the last few years according to the […]
Mixed News for News Corp.: Journal Circulation Up, Post Way Down
April 28, 2009
Yesterday, the Audit Bureau of Circulation released its newspaper circulation numbers for the six-month period ending in March 2009.
The results weren’t pretty: Every single one of the top 25 largest papers in the country declined in circulation except for The Wall Street Journal, whose numbers grew by roughly half a percentage point to just over […]
Lose Weight, Save a Tree?
April 28, 2009
Last week, a study done by the International Journal of Epidemiology by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical medicine concluded that overweight people are harmful to the environment. When I first heard about this I thought it was kind of an interesting topic and correlation, but didn’t give it much more thought than that. As […]