Kohl's, which reported flat earnings Wednesday for its quarter ended Oct. 30, launched a holiday promotion program that encourages using store credit cards for purchases and includes media slogans like "Give, Save and Save Again with Kohl's Charge".
Best Buy has teamed up with Clear Channel Radio and launched a holiday auction to benefit Toys for Teens, part of the Marine's Toys for Tots program.
Etsy wants everyone to know that it's the most important, and profitable, quarter of the year for them: "We have launched a holiday campaign that we believe is our strongest holiday effort to date".
Animoto, the startup that allows you to take your images, video and your music and mash them together to create cool videos, is launching a holiday themed platform that lets you send fun and personal online greeting cards this year and provides nifty themed templates for users to work from.
Sirius is set to launch a major holiday push at Wal-Mart Stores, where a lot of those NASCAR fans do their shopping; Wal-Mart will sell at least one Sirius receiver model for less than $30.
"House Republicans Sign Away Their Seats," declared the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee which immediately launched a "digital holiday ad campaign" against 10 vulnerable Republicans in California highlighting their vote for the tax bill.
The Royal Horticultural Society (rhs.org.uk), which plans to launch a range of garden holidays for 2013, will soon announce a selection of tours based around Floriade, with departures from May.
As expected, Amazon's move to launch an online sales holiday has had a rippling effect on the industry.
You used to launch a game then go on holiday for a few weeks, now it never stops".
It also provides white label versions of its holiday and flight booking service to over 80 sites including BT Openworld, the Telegraph, Virgin.net and the Guardian and was the first UK website to launch a build-your-own package holiday service allowing users to customise flight and accommodation deals.
