Coffee cup sleeves boost Hancher promotions in Iowa City
Hancher Auditorium uses coffee cup sleeves at Java House in Iowa City to promote The Broken Chord opening April 12. Marketing head Rob Cline says sleeves helped spark ticket sales and evolved after 2008 floods, with Java House covering printing costs.
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Iowa City
Hancher Auditorium
Java House
Working Group Theatre
Jennifer Fawcett
Rob Cline
Hancher
Cline
Tara Crowbaugh
Bill Hancher
Boston Pops
University of Iowa
Farmland values rise across Iowa with strong demand
Iowa farmland worth averaged 8690 per acre up 9.4 percent since September and 17.1 percent year over year with high quality land near 11515 per acre. Strong prices, low long term rates, and limited acreage offered fuel sales noted by Troy Louwagie.
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Iowa
The
Realtors Land Institute
Linn
Johnson
Troy Louwagie
Hertz Farm Management
Mount Vernon
Mortgage settlement failures persist in helping homeowners
Frustration remains as a $25 billion mortgage settlement intended to curb dual tracking and improve loan modifications has not ended foreclosure pressure. Banks can pursue foreclosures while reviewing modification requests, though some steps are required and improvements noted. Janet Menetrer in Charlotte faced a foreclosure notice three months after Bank of America promised a loan modification, amid conflicting bank letters and pending hearings.
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Harlotte
N.C
Mal Maynard
Wilmington, N.C
Janet Menetrer
Charlotte
Bank of America
Menetrer
Unesotte
Janet Menetrier
Lindt Loses Court Bid Over Easter Bunny Trademark
Lindt & Spruengli loses a German appeal over the gold foil wrapped Easter Bunny design. Confiserie Riegelein has produced similar chocolate bunnies since 2000, in a dispute decided by Germany's federal court of Justice after a 12 year fight.
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Zurich
Lindt & Spruengli
Lindt
Ery
Confiserie Riegelein
Germany
Federal Court of Justice
Peter Riegelein
Lindt Loses Case Over Easter Chocolate Bunnies Design
A German court rejected Lindt's claim that Hauswirths chocolates copied its bunny design. Lindt argued the two brands’ bunny shapes were too similar but the court ruled against them. Hauswirth maintains the distinctive confection remains its own design.
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