Category: Marketing

  • Kaivel Brands Announces Partnership With Koupon

    Kaivel Brands Announces Partnership With Koupon

    Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc., parent to Bidi Vapor, has announced its partnership with Koupon to create an electronic engagement program involving Koupon’s digital promotion platform. The partnership will offer customers who purchase the Bidi Stick, a disposable vaping device, digital opportunities based on their purchases, according to a press release.

    The partnership will offer incentives to specific customers based on purchasing habits, allowing users 21 and older of vaping products the opportunity to experience the Bidi disposable device.

    “Working with Koupon will facilitate a greater communication with adult users of our products,” said Niraj Patel, president and CEO of Kaival Brands, Melbourne, Fla. “We hope to better understand their needs and facilitate the purchase of our premium product.”

    The press release states that the program aims to better serve its adult customer base, involving assessment of consumer insights and digital offers for Bidi Vapor products, off. Age-verified adult consumers can access digital promotions powered by Koupon’s technology and redeem them at retail outlets within Bidi Vapor’s distribution network.

    The device could also help Bidi Vapor in adhering to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s after marketing surveillance requirements if Bidi’s PMTA were to be approved. The FDA granted an administrative stay to Bidi’s PMTA in October.

    In addition, integrated security identifies or limits age-restricted content. “Koupon’s age-restriction policies align with our goals,” Patel said. “We have always focused on keeping our products out of the hands of minors.”

  • Quebec Appeals Court Upholds Vapor Ad Ban

    Quebec Appeals Court Upholds Vapor Ad Ban

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    A panel of three Court of Appeals judges unanimously reversed the parts of a 2019 Quebec Superior Court decision that struck down some provisions of the Tobacco Control Act pertaining to vaping products, reports Global News.

    The Quebec Superior Court had ruled that some of the province’s restrictions on vaping products, such as banning advertising, went too far because they could possibly prevent smokers from switching to noncombustible products.

    The appeals court judges cited research from the World Health Organization and other experts regarding the rise in youth vaping rates, ruling that the Quebec government has the right to limit potential effects of advertising on youth and nonsmokers.

    “In this case, it was therefore reasonable for the legislator to intervene to limit the potential effect of electronic cigarette advertising, especially on young people,” Justice Benoit Moore wrote on behalf of the panel. “The risks associated with the fact that the vaping industry is evolving and that it is gradually being taken over by the tobacco companies cannot be excluded from the analysis of the legislator.”

     The court also upheld the right to ban vaping product demonstrations inside shops or specialized clinics.

     

  • PMI Investigated for Smoke-Free ‘Advertisement’

    PMI Investigated for Smoke-Free ‘Advertisement’

    Photo: Arkadiusz Fajer

    The Dutch food safety body NVWA is investigating a campaign by Philip Morris International (PMI)  to promote smoke free alternatives, reports DutchNews.

    PMI has launched a new website for the products and promoted it with a page advert in the Telegraaf at the weekend. In that advert, the company said Dutch smokers have the right to information about smoke-free alternatives.

    While not mentioning the products by name, the advertisement does include the company’s brand name. Advertising tobacco products is illegal in the Netherlands.

    The NVWA investigation follows complaints by anti-smoking groups. If found to have broken the ban, PMI could be fined up to €450,000 ($546,010).