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Beverage marketers face stiff competition to make their products stand out in a sea of introductions and powerful brands.

Anheuser-Busch promotes its 180 energy drink with a variety of P-O-P materials such as this serpentine rack designed for on-premise placement on countertops. It features five-color labels and a gravity-feed structure.
Producer: Display Technologies Inc., College Point, N.Y.

Highlights of recent and upcoming P-O-P promotions by more than 40 top companies

Retail Category: Eating & Drinking Establishments
Display Type: Countertop - Permanent
Client: Anheuser-Busch Inc.
Producer: Everbrite Inc., Greenfield, Wis.
Size of Run: 500
Comments: An illuminated, injection-molded bottle rotates slowly on this backbar glorifier to educate consumers on the natural brewing ingredients used in Budweiser beer.

Competition, floor space and time are tight in the complicated but lucrative c-store arena.

Retail Category: Eating & Drinking Establishments
Display Type: Temporary Graphics
Client: Anheuser-Busch Inc.
Producer: Anheuser-Busch Inc., St. Louis
Size of Run: 3,150
Comments: Vacuum-forming and bright graphics provide a 3-D effect to what would have been a regular banner. The wall display commemorates Mardi Gras and the Bud family of beer involvement with the celebration.

Consumers are spending more time and money in foodservice establishments than ever before, a trend that has created new opportunities to reach them with targeted P-O-P programs.

Client: Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis
Producer: Grimm Industries, Fairview, Pa.
Comments: Designed to reinforce Busch's relationship with NASCAR, this sign is an exact replica of a Chevy auto hood, except that it is made of co-extruded styrene to keep manufacturing and distribution costs low. The NASCAR and Busch logos appeal to their targeted retail environment of sports bars and arenas.