Posted on 09 March 2012. Tags: conference, Iceland, internet, marketing, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, online, President, Reykjavik
Reykjavík is today hosting the ninth annual Reykjavík Internet Marketing Conference. The conference has built a reputation as one of the highest quality of its kind in the world and this morning, for the first time, the event was officially opened by the President of Iceland himself.
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Posted in Business, Featured, Iceland, International, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Technology
Posted on 26 February 2012. Tags: alcohol, ban, beer, health, Iceland, law, legal, marketing, Politics, prohibit, vin bud, vinbudin
Following last week’s mudslinging over the banning of Motörhead wine, Iceland’s state alcohol monopoly has been in the headlines again for making controversial decisions — not once, not twice, but three times.
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Posted in Business, Featured, Iceland, Leisure, Lifestyle, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Politics
Posted on 06 December 2011. Tags: chipmunks, marketing, merchandising, misleading, stockholm, Sweden
An invasion of giant chipmunks at the turning-on ceremony for Stockholm’s Christmas lights has shocked residents and city officials alike.
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Posted in Business, Featured, General, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 07 November 2011. Tags: advertising, facebook, Iceland, internet, marketing, nordic, online
The combined Nordic consumer agencies are investigating whether advertising laws have been broken on the social networking website, Facebook.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Featured, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden, Technology
Posted on 09 August 2011. Tags: advertising, cntroversy, equal rights, food, marketing, mistake, mustard, Sweden, women
A Swedish mustard company has been slammed for being chauvinist after releasing an advertising campaign about what constitutes a ‘real man’.
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Posted in Business, Featured, General, Lifestyle, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 09 March 2011. Tags: conference, facebook, Iceland, internet, marketing, Microsoft, Reykjavik, RIMC
Representatives of some of the biggest online brands on Earth will be in Reykjavik this Friday for the 8th annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference — or RIMC.
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Posted in Business, Featured, General, Iceland, International, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Technology
Posted on 15 October 2010. Tags: advertising, facebook, marketing, nordic, social media
Consumer ombudsmen in the Nordic region are looking into social networking sites such as Facebook to decide whether they are engaging in illegal marketing. The watchdogs are planning to investigate whether social media websites contravene advertising laws in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Featured, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Norway, Politics, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden, Technology
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: business, Iceland, internet, marketing, Reykjavik, RIMC, sales
This morning begins a very high profile weekend for the internet in Iceland with today’s Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and the accompanying high-tech expo which runs until Sunday.
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Posted in Business, Featured, General, Iceland, International, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Technology