Kofi Amoo-Gottfried is among the 2024 Brands That Matter CMOs of the year for his work on DoorDash’s ambitious Super Bowl spot.
The Super Bowl is known for its ambitious ads, which represent the most enterprising work of America’s chief marketing officers. Even inthat context, DoorDash CMO Kofi Amoo-Gottfried’s concept for the 2024 telecast stood out.
Hennessy is one of Fast Company’s 2024 Brands That Matter heritage brands for its efforts to shed its stuffy image.
Many brands work overtime courting high-income consumers. That’s never been a problem for 259-year-old cognac brand Hennessy. Even amid a 17% decline in U. S. cognac sales volume, according to beverage market insights firm IWSR, it continues to index well among deep-pocketed drinkers.
Tuff Shed has permanent housing.
The founder and CEO of the shed manufacturer on Thursday bought the Denver office complex at Interstate 25 and Colorado Boulevard, where the company has been headquartered for three decades.
Tom Saurey, who founded Tuff Shed in 1981, bought the Centerpoint I and II buildings at 3900 E.
Tucked away in north Denver’s Clayton neighborhood, a former medical supply facility built in 1942 for the U. S. Army, is quietly becoming a business and entertainment hub.
Real estate developer SKB bought the 37-acre site, at York Street and E. 39th Avenue, in 2020 and began signing office, industrial and retail tenants.
The Bonnie Brae Ice Cream shop, with its red and white striped awning and red and white neon sign, has long been one of the most recognizable sights in Denver. And on a warm summer day, the line of people stretching out the door and along the brick building at the corner of South University Boulevard and Ohio Avenue is a familiar scene.
The city has recognized the shop’s impact in the community by naming it a Denver Legacy Business.
As the rebound out of the Great Recession took hold in 2012, nearly half of Denver households who rented paid $1,000 or less a month to claim a place. By 2019, only 12.9% were doing so and as of last year, only 8.5% of households were paying that amount in rent, according to an analysis from the Seattle-based brokerage firm Redfin.
Nationally, the share of households paying less than $1,000 a month in rent went from just over half to about a third in inflation-adjusted dollars.