The McSkillet Burrito is made with scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, cheeses, red and green bell peppers, onions and salsa roja
Photo: McDonald’s
Thirty years after the national introduction of the Egg McMuffin sandwich, McDonald’s launched the new McSkillet Burrito, a hand-held made-to-order breakfast burrito wrapped in a warm flour tortilla. At the same time, since 2002 McDonald’s breakfast sales have increased 42 percent.
Jan Fields, chief operating officer, McDonald’s USA
“McDonald’s is the ideal destination for breakfast,” said Jan Fields, executive vice president and chief operating officer, McDonald’s USA. “We believe the ultimate convenience is the quality and value we bring our customers every day, with the introduction of the McSkillet Burrito underscoring our presence in the breakfast category.”
The McSkillet Burrito sells for $2.49 and is the first national breakfast product launch since the McGriddles sandwich in 2003. The new breakfast dish combines scrambled eggs, sausage and skillet potatoes with cheese, red and green bell peppers, onions and salsa roja.
J.C. Gonzalez-Mendez, senior vice president North America Supply Chain Management McDonald’s USA
“As we continue to develop quality, convenient menu options that meet our customers’ needs, the McSkillet Burrito is the ideal breakfast choice for people on-the-go,” said J.C. Gonzalez-Mendez, senior vice president North America Supply Chain Management McDonald’s USA, LLC. “At McDonald’s, our legacy of innovation continues at breakfast.”
“Best in Class Hispanic Strategies” audio recording
Presenters Carlos Santiago and Derene Allen
Find out what makes 25 percent of the top 500 Hispanic market advertisers out perform the remaining companies
Discover what questions to ask, steps to take to be a Best in Class company
In 1977, McDonald’s introduced its first breakfast food, the Egg McMuffin, a portable breakfast sandwich made with eggs, Canadian-style bacon and American cheese on a toasted English muffin, created by owner and operator Herb Peterson. Since then, McDonald’s breakfast menu has expanded to include the Sausage Biscuit, McGriddles sandwich and Breakfast Burritos, signature platters, hash browns, Cinnamon Melts, Fruit ‘N Yogurt Parfait and Snack Size Fruit & Walnut Salad.
McDonald’s USA, LLC, is a fast food provider in the United States. More than 80 percent of McDonald’s 13,700 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by local franchisees. One third of McDonald’s employees in the United States are Latino and 11 percent of the company’s board members are Hispanic.
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“Changing Latino Landscape” audio recording
Presenter Cesar Melgoza, managing director, Latin Force Group
Find out about
• How demographic, social, political and economic factors affect Latinos
• Number of Hispanics in U.S.
• Hispanics as a percent of the mainstream population
• Number of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico
• Hispanics, including Puerto Rico, as a percent of U.S. mainstream
• Number of Asians and African Americans
• Estimated size of Hispanic market by 2012
• Percentage growth of new Hispanics per year
• Number of counties where Latinos are majority
• Areas of significant Latino growth
• Area of U.S. with a 950 percent Latino growth
• Role of acculturation
• Hispanicity segmentation
Mac Wilcox, CheckSpring Bank; D. Lee Ezell, Community Board 4; Earl Brown, Bronx; Dimetris Giannoulias, CheckSpring Bank; Ruben Diaz, Jr., New York State Assembly; Congressman Jose E. Serrano; Eric Pallas, CheckSpring Bank; and Charles Wilcox, CheckSpring Bank
Photo: Miguel Rjl
In early November 2007, CheckSpring Bank opened its flagship branch on 167 Street in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York City, a few blocks north of the new Yankee Stadium. According to a bank representative, it is the first new bank headquartered in the neighborhood in 25 years. The new bank will target under-served and under-banked Latinos in the community.
“The opening of CheckSpring Bank is certainly representative of the continued and needed economic development that is now occurring in our Bronx community,” said Rita Di Martino, chair of the Board of the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center.
CheckSpring offers traditional and non-traditional banking services to the area’s Latino community, and bilingual customer service in Spanish and English. Products include banking and loans for consumers and small businesses, check cashing from bank teller windows for depositors and the public, money transfers, as well as checking and savings accounts. The bank promises to discount check cashing fees for depositors.
Target Latinos effectively by anticipating changes in the market with
“Hispanic Projections with 2007-08 update” audio recording
Presenter Roger Selbert, Ph.D.
Find out
About Latino buying power growth in the future
How Latino market growth compares with other markets in the U.S.
CheckSpring officials hope the bank’s convenient hours (the bank will open 8 am to 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays and Saturday mornings), location, innovative products and Latino oriented customer service will win over under-banked customers who historically have remained elusive.
“Our mission is to create a new kind of bank, one that provides Bronx customers with improved access to the full spectrum of financial services, and a suite of affordable banking products that serves people’s needs, facilitating savings and wealth creation,” said Charles Wilcox, cofounder and president, CheckSpring Bank. “We’re thrilled to be launching our headquarters branch of CheckSpring Bank on 167th St. and we anticipate a long and close association with customers and community influentials here in the Bronx.”
CheckSpring plans to work closely with local community organizations and support their efforts to provide financial education outreach programs to help the under banked community better access the tools they need to create and manage financial resources.
According to the bank’s website, the top three CheckSpring Bank executives are Eric Pallas, president, Rosa Pavia, chief operating officer and Wallingford Lee, chief lending officer.
“Beyond the 30 Second Spot” audio recording
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Panelists Ivan Cevallos, Hunter Heller, Kitty Kolding and Cynthia Nelson
Our panel of national experts discuss
• Challenges of measuring the impact of the 30-second ad spot
• Innovative tools useful to reach Latinos
• Changes in marketing to Hispanics
• For which market segment are the changes most relevant
• Effects of technology and time shift on consumer behavior
• Getting started
• Tips for marketing professionals
A podcast featuring an interview with Cristina Benitez, author, Latinization:How Latino Culture is Transforming the U.S., is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses her book with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Cristina is the founder of Lazos Latinos, a Chicago branding and advertising company specializing in Hispanic markets. Prior to founding her company in 1998, she was senior vice president, Ethnic Marketing, DraftWorldwide. Before that she was vice president at FOVA, Grey Advertising’s Hispanic marketing group. Her experience includes teaching secondary and college students Spanish for eight years. She is a board member of the Gateway Foundation, The Chicago Public Library, and The Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement and Luna Negra Dance.
In her recently released 128-page book, Latinization: How Latino Culture is Transforming the U.S. Cristina, a second generation Latina, relied on 20 years of Hispanic marketing experience and the input of 20 leaders.
In the book, she also included quotes and the insights of 14 men and six women in the arts and sciences, many from the Chicago area, in her efforts to define the influence of Hispanics on American culture. The leaders Cristina consulted include Hispanics and non Hispanics; entrepreneurs, authors, artists, performers, managers and the first woman to walk in space.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see the “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Cristina Benitez” click on the play button below or download it to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the December 2007 section of the podcast archive.
The national alliance organization of Women In Film (WIF) and General Motors Corporation (GM) recently selected five winners of the second annual WIF/GM 2007 Opening Doors/Abriendo Puertas: The Acceleration Grant for Emerging Latina Filmmakers. Scroll down to watch “Countdown” and “Stuck” short videos courtesy of one of this year’s grant recipients, Xochitl Gonzalez.
The grant, a project of the WIF/GM Alliance, was created to support talented filmmakers from Latina/Hispanic communities and other under-represented groups. The WIF/GM grant is presented to five up-and-coming Latina filmmakers, chosen through an application process overseen by a WIF selection committee of professional filmmakers and entertainment industry executives from the New York-based chapter of WIF, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).
Grant recipients were chosen from among numerous submissions from across the U.S., U.S. territories and three foreign countries. Applicants included women of Brazilian, Cuban, Columbian, Costa Rican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish and Peruvian heritage. This year’s winners are Erika Bagnarello from Heredia, Costa Rica; Sarah Duran, Xochitl Gonzalez and Brenda Zuniga from Los Angeles, California; and Michelle Malley-Campos from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The grant promises recipients the opportunity to learn about the business of filmmaking through a six-day, full-immersion mentoring program, shepherded by members of NYWIFT, including some of the industry’s better known and women filmmakers.
Filmmakers Brenda Zuniga and Michelle Malley-Campos
“Once again, we are tremendously impressed with the depth of talent among Latina women across the country and in other territories and countries. Women In Film steadfastly believes in mentoring, fostering and supporting exceptional women who want to work in the entertainment industry. And the emphasis of the grant is to support emerging filmmakers from diverse communities. We applaud this year’s winners and look forward to their future contributions to our industry,” said Judith James, chair of the WIF/GM Alliance.
A native of Costa Rica, Bagnarello is a graduate of Florida State University and a former Fulbright Scholar. In 2006, she was awarded an honorable mention in the Latino category of the Directors Guild of America’s Student Awards for her short, The Melting Pot. Her thesis film Inner Sight, won second place in the student category at the 2007 Palm Beach International Film Festival and was chosen to screen at this year’s Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Bagnarello’s current project, Flyways, tells the story of a Costa Rican woman illegally immigrating to the U.S. with her daughter via a cruise ship.
“Emotional Branding: How to capture the heart and mind of the Hispanic consumer” audio recording
“Emotional Branding” was recorded January 2007 during the Strategic Research Institute 13th Annual Blockbuster Marketing to U.S. Hispanic and Latin America conference in Miami, Florida. Receive a free downloadable copy by completing our Visitor Survey.
A graduate of Cal State Northridge, Duran was recently accepted as one of 16 participants in the 2007 Producers Guild of America’s Diversity Workshop for her feature screenplay The Search for Santiago. She was selected to attend the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) 2007 signature program, the Latino Producers Academy, as a feature production fellow. Duran’s first short film, Red Phoenix, premiered at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival and her second short, Girls Night Out, won the grand prize in the 2006 Mercury/NALIP Latino Short Film Challenge. She is working on her first feature-length screenplay which she hopes to direct.
Filmmaker Xochitl Gonzalez
Gonzalez received an MFA in directing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She directed two award-winning narrative 35 millimeter shorts, “Countdown” and “Stuck.” Scroll down to watch the her short films. Her films have screened on KCET’s Fine Cut series and at the Film Independent P:I Showcase, Newport Beach Film Festival, San Diego Film Festival and Durango Film Festival. Gonzalez completed screenplays she hopes to direct for a feature film, Dr. Kevin, and a television pilot, The V.A. Spa.
Malley-Campos is a graduate of New York University’s film program. Her senior thesis, the short narrative When Chickens Bark, was was awarded “Outstanding Achievement” at the 2007 International Student Film Festival. She is working in the Puerto Rican production office for the film, The Argentine, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio Del Toro.
A graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Zuniga is exhibiting her thesis film, Santa Teresa, at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the DC Shorts Film Festival. She is working as a cinematographer and camera assistant in feature film production. Zuniga’s goal is to write and direct feature films.
“By providing the opportunity to attend dedicated workshops and to network with professionals from all aspects of the filmmaking industry,” said Terry Lawler, executive director of NYWIFT, “these grants will provide these women with a broad base of skills and knowledge of how to turn creative ideas into reality.”
Founded in 1973 in Los Angeles, Women In Film is a non-profit organization dedicated to women in the global entertainment industry. Its purpose is to empower, promote, nurture and mentor women in the industry through a network of valuable contacts, events, programs, workshops, finishing funds and scholarships.
The Women In Film/General Motors Alliance was created to support women in the entertainment industry and to expand Women In Film chapter programs across the country. The multi-year initiative was announced in Los Angeles in January 2005 and is supporting programs such as the Film Finishing Fund, Women’s Film Preservation Fund, Legacy Series, scholarships, mentorships and local WIF chapter award events across the nation. General Motors Corporation is the National Presenting Sponsor of Women In Film.
Click on the play button to watch “Countdown” and “Stuck” short videos courtesy of Xochitl Gonzalez.
Marsha Butler, DDS, vice president, Global Oral Health and Professional Relations, Colgate
Photo: Colgate-Palmolive
Recently released figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention based on the most recent information available (2003-04) indicate that the percentage of Americans with untreated tooth decay began rising this decade, reversing nearly 50 years of improvement in dental health. The reversal seems to be directly related to access to dental care issues. According to an October 11, 2007 The New York Times article, increase in dental fees and 100 million people without dental insurance are to blame.
“For children between the ages of 5 and 17 in the U.S., tooth decay is more common than asthma, more common than hay fever, and it poses a significant threat to our children’s overall health and well-being,” said Marsha Butler, DDS, vice president, Global Oral Health and Professional Relations, Colgate.
As part of its community affairs outreach, Colgate launched the Bright Smiles, Bright Futures dental health challenge program to reach 100 million children in the United States with free dental screenings, treatment referrals and oral health education by 2010. Since 1991, Colgate has reached 73 million children and 59 percent of the reach has been to Hispanic children.
The program’s goals are furthered through the use of a Colgate mobile dental van, one of a fleet of eight “clinics on wheels” that the company sponsors around the U.S., reaching about 130 urban and rural cities across the country.
“Colgate is committed to promoting oral health among Hispanic children and their families. Our mobile dental vans visit schools as well as community enters in neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations. We partner with professional organizations like the Hispanic Dental Association, whose members volunteer aboard the vans that visit schools, community centers and festivals across the United States,” said David Cardona, Marketing Director, Multicultural Marketing – Oral Care/Colgate Palmolive Company. “Colgate also oversees bilingual, cross-curricular educational initiatives designed to raise awareness in Hispanic communities about the importance of maintaining good dental hygiene and the connection between one’s oral and overall health.”
“Best in Class Hispanic Strategies” audio recording
Presenters Carlos Santiago and Derene Allen
Find out what makes 25 percent of the top 500 Hispanic market advertisers out perform the remaining companies
Discover what questions to ask, steps to take to be a Best in Class company
The Bright Smiles, Bright Futures program has hosted events in cities with large Hispanic populations like San Diego, New York, Chicago and Houston. Recently Colgate’s program made a stop in Miami, one of the top Hispanic markets in the country, where Colgate-Palmolive partnered with the United Way and Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami to host an oral health event featuring teen star Corbin Bleu, music, games and the dental van with free screening for 300 Miami-Dade Elementary School students.
“When you think about meeting people at your school, in your neighborhood, from different states or even different countries, there’s nothing more welcoming than a smile,” Corbin Bleu told a group of South Florida students recently. “Traveling on tour, I’ve had an opportunity to see what a smile can do to put people at ease. When I learned of the risks oral health disease presents, especially for kids in urban and rural areas, I wanted to help Colgate and United Way draw attention to the importance of maintaining good dental health.”
“At Colgate, our objective is to work with communities to help reduce and prevent oral health disease, and we are providing children and their families with information and skills that allow them to take charge of their dental health. Over the past few years, we’ve hosted oral health festivals and awareness activities for children from LA to New York. We have a network of eight mobile dental vans that set up clinics in target areas and at cultural events across the United States. Globally, we’ve also reached out to more than 500 million people in 80 countries, encouraging children to see their dentists and recruiting parents, teachers, and community and professional organizations, to help raise awareness about the importance of maintaining good oral health,” said Butler.
Colgate-Palmolive is a global consumer products company, focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. Colgate sells its products in over 200 countries and territories around the world under such brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, Elmex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Science Diet and Hill’s Prescription Diet pet foods.
“Marketing to New Hispanic Moms – a case study” audio recording
Presenter Cynthia Nelson, COO, Todobebe
Find out about
• New Latina mom market
• Baby demographics including market size, profile
• New moms’ language preferences
• Latino baby market trends
• Factors influencing Hispanic baby market
• Location of new Hispanic moms’ market
• Issues affecting new Latino moms
• Todobebe strategies
According to a series of six surveys conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center between 2002 and 2006 among 14,000 Latinos, most Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents say they speak English fluently. This is a sharp contrast to their foreign born parents; only a small minority of which consider that they are fluent in English.
Pew researchers, Shirin Hakimzadeh and D’Vera Cohn, analyzed the survey results and drafted a recent report concluding that less than 24 percent of foreign born Latinos consider they speak English very well while 88 percent of their U.S. born children consider themselves fluent in English.
The researchers also found respondents to the survey, of all generations, spoke English at work more frequently than at home. At the same time, more recent generations show a 94 percent of adults who consider they speak English. The figures for adults’ reading ability are similar to their speaking ability.
Target Latinos effectively by anticipating changes in the market with
“Hispanic Projections with 2007-08 update” audio recording
Presenter Roger Selbert, Ph.D.
Find out
About Latino buying power growth in the future
How Latino market growth compares with other markets in the U.S.
Highly educated immigrants who arrived in the United States as children or have lived in the country for many years were most likely to say they were fluent in English. Immigrants from Puerto Rico and South America were most likely to claim proficiency than Mexican-born respondents.
The report findings are based on four measures used by respondent to rate of their abilities, including their own English-speaking skills, their English-reading skills, their level of English use at home, and their level of English use at work.The researchers relied on the results of two of the surveys as well as a national survey conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center in October and November of 2007 which indicate Latinos believe inadequate English language skills are an obstacle to their acceptance in the United States. These findings are similar to those from previous surveys conducted by the Center.
The Pew Hispanic Center, an initiative of the Pew Research Center, is a non-partisan, non-advocacy research organization based in Washington, D.C. The Pew Hispanic Center is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
“Segmentation by Level of Acculturation” audio recording
ComEd recently launched a new Spanish-language advertising campaign to promote its compact fluorescent energy-saving light bulbs (CFL). The television and radio campaign, created by ComEd’s Hispanic advertising agency of record, the San Jose Group (SJG), highlights a company program that discounts compact fluorescent light bulbs.
According to information provided by The San Jose Group, the 30-second spots focus on a hairdresser and will air in Chicago and Rockford from October to December 2007. The agency’s team members believe the stylist character provides the right mix for a creative and simple execution, humor, credibility and a memorable medium. They hope a humorous approach to the serious topic of energy conservation will be well received by Spanish speaking Latino audiences.
Antonio Lovera, creative director at SJG
“Humor is a common cultural thread that transcends borders and nationalities,” said Antonio Lovera, creative director at SJG. “With the variety of Latin American cultures represented in ComEd’s marketplace, we used humor as an element to engage all Hispanics in a meaningful way.”
Taking advantage of the gossip stereotype of beauty shops, the 30 second ads focus on a hairdresser gossiping to a client about how a man left “her” for something younger, that lasts longer and even saves money. In fact, she’s referring to the new CFL bulb instead of her personal life.
A compact fluorescent energy-saving light bulb
According to promotional materials, CFL bulbs use 75 percent less energy than traditional light bulbs and last up to 10 times as long. Promoters say that replacing one standard bulb with a CFL can save customers up to $30 in electricity costs on their bill over the lifetime of the bulb.
The San Jose Group was recently reappointed as the Hispanic advertising agency of record for Exelon and its operating companies, ComEd and PECO, allowing the agency to continue to develop branding strategies and advertising executions for the company; and marking the continuation of a 12-year relationship between Exelon and The San Jose Group.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, provides service to 3.7 million customers across northern Illinois, 70 percent of the state’s population. Incorporated in 1981 and headquartered in Chicago, The San Jose Group is a consortium of marketing communications companies specializing in reaching the Hispanic and non-Hispanic markets in the U.S. and Latin America.
“Best in Class Hispanic Strategies” audio recording
Presenters Carlos Santiago and Derene Allen
Find out what makes 25 percent of the top 500 Hispanic market advertisers out perform the remaining companies
Discover what questions to ask, steps to take to be a Best in Class company
Photo: Jerry LaCay
Video: Ed Rodriguez, Diesel Media
New York Latin band Zon del Barrio recently released its debut CD, “Cortijo’s Tribe” with the help of Emusica Records and Barrio Zone Productions. The Spanish Harlem group describes its style as structured on a solid foundation of Afro-Caribbean rhythms with a New York twist and a celebration of Afro-Antillian music.
Led by Latin music historian, writer, composer and musician Aurora Flores, Zon del Barrio’s Cortijo’s Tribe: La Tribu de Cortijo relies on Afro-Puerto Rican music veterans Yomo Toro, the King of the cuatro (the national 10-stringed guitar of the island) and Sammy Ayala, Cortijo alum, singer and songwriter. Hector “Papote” Jimenez, a native New Yorker, is the youngest addition to the band.
Zon del Barrio is a play on words for the musical genre son of Latino communities. Produced by musical director David Fernandez, the CD blends dance rhythms of Cuba and Puerto Rico within a New York setting. According to promotional materials it includes elements of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, funk and reggaetón, raw street plenas and bombas. Cortijo’s Tribe follows the production style of salsa artists Al Santiago whose approach is said to have paved the way for the Fania music explosion of the 1970s.
Zon Del Barrio has shared the stage with Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Oscar D’Leon, Bobby Valentin, Michael Stuart, Larry Harlow, Jimmy Bosch, Andrea Brachfeld, La India, and Chembo Corniel. The band has appeared on Univision during the Latin Grammy Awards, on the morning show “Despierta America” on Telemundo, Fox 5, Manhattan Neighborhood Network and the Vic-Fezensac Salsa festival in Toulouse, France; the Howl Festival in the Lower East Side, the Orchard Beach Salsa Concert Series, the Half Marathon in Battery Park, The River to River Festival, and the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.
Presenter Cesar Melgoza, managing director, Latin Force Group
Find out about
• How demographic, social, political and economic factors affect Latinos
• Number of Hispanics in U.S.
• Hispanics as a percent of the mainstream population
• Number of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico
• Hispanics, including Puerto Rico, as a percent of U.S. mainstream
• Number of Asians and African Americans
• Estimated size of Hispanic market by 2012
• Percentage growth of new Hispanics per year
• Number of counties where Latinos are majority
• Areas of significant Latino growth
• Area of U.S. with a 950 percent Latino growth
• Role of acculturation
• Hispanicity segmentation
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