TBWA\Shanghai creates 193 moons for Ferrero Rocher to celebrate the mid-Autumn festival

TBWA\Shanghai creates 193 moons for Ferrero Rocher to celebrate the mid-Autumn festival

World-renowned Italian chocolatier, Ferrero Rocher partnered with creative agency TBWA\Shanghai to launch a unique integrated campaign celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. In its first ever Tmall Super Brand Day, Ferrero Rocher released limited-edition premium packs available exclusively on the Alibaba-owned platform. Tmall Super Brand Days are designed to enhance online-to-offline digital marketing capabilities through Alibaba’s big […]

Starbucks and Alibaba Launch Food Delivery and Virtual Stores in China

Starbucks and Alibaba Launch Food Delivery and Virtual Stores in China

Starbucks has extended its partnership with Alibaba in China, which will see it launch delivery services, establish a delivery kitchen and create a virtual store with the help of the eCommerce giant’s subsidiaries. The American coffee giant is already working with Alibaba for its interactive coffee store Shanghai Reserve Roastery, which is powered by Alibaba technology to allow consumers […]

Alibaba’s Alipay pilots facial recognition payment technology at KFC in China

Alibaba’s Alipay pilots facial recognition payment technology at KFC in China

China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]

W+K Amsterdam Brings Tenderness of Milka to China with Latest Ad

W+K Amsterdam Brings Tenderness of Milka to China with Latest Ad

Milka, the world’s most tender melting chocolate, launches in China with an integrated national campaign positioned under the brand’s global ‘Tenderness is inside’ platform. The campaign – which includes film, digital and social activations, VR executions and an exclusive partnership with Alibaba – launches Milka in China for the first time and marks Mondelēz International’s […]

Starbucks Kicks off China Digital Push with Tmall Store Launch

Starbucks Kicks off China Digital Push with Tmall Store Launch

Starbucks is boosting its digital sales in China through an online store on Alibaba-owned Tmall, selling gift cards, coffee vouchers and personalised e-cards. The store will give Starbucks an extension of its loyalty scheme in China, which the retailer believes will be its biggest international market in 2016, according to Investor’s Business Daily. For Alibaba […]