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REWARD: $ 5,000 USD

This worldwide leader in cleaning technology is looking for a new product that combines an electric power washer and garden hose reel so that you can quickly switch between low pressure watering (like a normal garden hose) and high pressure cleaning (with electric driven motor pump).

REWARD: $ 100,000 USD

Today, internal combustion engines fueled by propane are used as an alternative to diesel in many applications such as forklifts, irrigation engines, trucks, and generators. Propane continues to be a viable, clean-burning fuel for internal combustion engines that can affordably meet EPA tier IV emissions requirements in the United States. While the basic propane engine technology exists, there is a need for a fully-integrated solution that combines a propane-fueled engine and tank with a modern agricultural tractor.

REWARD: $ 100,000 USD

The mission of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is to promote the safe and efficient use of odorized propane gas. PERC has awarded more than $80-million for research and development of groundbreaking propane technologies through dozens of partnerships with innovators, top companies, universities, and national laboratories. Now they are looking for your idea for a new propane-fueled space cooling system that could be a practical and affordable alternative to traditional electricity-driven air conditioning systems and help reduce reliance on grid power while increasing the use of propane year-round in the residential market.

REWARD: $ 8,000 USD

Experian is one of the world’s largest data, analytical and marketing services companies that enable organizations to make and execute better decisions. It is a global leader in harnessing information and using it to empower businesses and consumers. Experian is looking for your help to define the market size of their addressable market for a range of products in Japan and South Korea including: decision analytics offers, E-mail and mobile message marketing, Mosaic, marketing analytics, international business credit reports.

REWARD: $ 65,000 USD

Located in East Asia, this car manufacturing company is looking for an imaginative and persuasive advertisement campaign (TV and print) for its small-size class car. Ranked third in market share (at 11%), this small-size car has some tough competition to overcome, but the company believes that an advertising campaign that is focused on enjoying good music on its car's premium sound system will set it apart from its competition. With this in mind, they want your great ideas for an advertisement campaign that is witty, sentimental, and sophisticated ... and they need your ideas very quickly!

REWARD: $ 75,000 USD

This company is looking for your new ideas to keep food freezing during transportation from the manufacturer to the retailer. This company is concerned that once the food is removed from its freezers that the quality of its products are eroding before they reach the retailer.

REWARD: $ 75,000 USD

This leading food manufacturer is concerned that the warm temperatures generated during shipping and transportation could be eroding the quality of their chocolate products before they reach the retailer. They are looking for your new ideas for heat resistant packaging (direct contact) that can help maintain a cooler temperature of these chocolate products for extended periods of time during shipping and transportation.

REWARD: $ 45,000 USD

This company is interested in identifying affordable and emerging technologies that produce a metallic look and feel that can be applied to packaging decoration. It aspires to increase the impact of the packaging at the store shelf and seeks novel approaches that deliver a visible impact at a distance of 6 feet with standard in-store lighting. Suitable decoration technologies could be surface finishes applied to plastic or paperboard.

REWARD: $60,000 USD

This company is looking for your new ideas for coffee 'complements' that will elevate the entire at-home coffee experience in an instant. Many ideas already in the marketplace have been inspired by the coffeehouse: frothing steamed milk, adding whipped cream, flavored syrups, vanilla or chocolate powders to the coffee. But, they are looking to you to add even more fun and indulgence to the at-home cup of coffee.

REWARD: $75,000 USD

In line with its business and growth objectives, this company is extremely interested in introducing in Latin America a line of premium home care products that are environmentally-friendly. But, consumers in Latin America are less inclined to spend more money on environmentally-friendly products since there is a high-level of skepticism that they actually work as well. The company wants to convince these consumers that they should pay more for these products now to save more money and the environment in the long run ... and they need your help!

REWARD: $75,000 USD

This company's products are some of the best-known consumer brands in the world. This company is looking for new ideas that will help achieve a rapid and noticeable improvement in the look and feel of consumers hands while they wash the dishes, and they need your help!

REWARD: $45,000 USD

This company is looking for your new ideas to help re-position their Home Care products (hand dishwashing liquids, fabric softeners, liquid cleaners) from being commodity products to luxury items in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Typically, they have positioned their products as you might expect - brands that help make a home cleaner. But, now the company wants the consumer to view their Home Care products as luxurious, elegant and helping the consumer to achieve a sophisticated lifestyle ... and they need your help!

REWARD: $45,000 USD

This company is one of the largest consumer products companies in the world. Its products are some of the world's best-known brands that make consumers lives healthier and more enjoyable. It reaches consumers in more than 200 countries and has operations in over 80 countries.

This company is looking to you to come up with new ideas for 'visual cues' for the formula in their Fabric Softeners, Liquid Cleaners and Hand Dish products that will help them differentiate their products in an increasingly commoditized marketplace. Visual cues refer to what the formula looks like in the container when the consumer purchases it off the shelf and can dramatically influence how the consumer perceives what the benefits of the product are.

REWARD: $65,000 USD

This company is considered a leader in packaging solutions, participating in a variety of sectors including healthcare, personal & beauty care and food & beverage.

The company is looking for new ways to separate each of the layers of multi-layered packaging once the packaging is no longer useful. The layers of packaging could include films of paper, paperboard, glass, metal, etc. By doing this, each of these materials can be recovered in separate streams and then disposed of or recycled in the most cost-efficient and environmentally-friendly way possible.

REWARD: $60,000 USD

This company is one of the largest consumer products companies in the world. Its products are some of the world's best-known brands that make consumers lives healthier and more enjoyable. It reaches consumers in more than 200 countries and has operations in over 80 countries

Similar to other parts of the world, consumers in Latin America do not enjoy many of their household chores ... especially washing the dishes. This company is looking for your new ideas that will help consumers in this region save time and effort when washing their dishes. Read the details of this challenge carefully and consider the unique characteristics of the dishwashing process in Latin America, and then send us your great ideas to help make washing their dishes faster and easier!

REWARD: $40,000 USD

This company is looking for new and better ways to help bond mineral pigments to cellulosic surfaces. A few examples of this might be improving how paint sticks to dry wall, how pigmented dyes stick to fabrics, etc. If the bonding strength could be increased … with your help … the company could use less binding material with the same performance and cut their manufacturing costs dramatically!

REWARD: $65,000 USD

This company is considered a leader in packaging solutions, participating in a variety of sectors including healthcare, personal & beauty care and food & beverage.

Any food and beverage packaging that uses multiple layers to protect the enclosed product - e.g. a layer for strength, a layer to protect against moisture, a layer to protect against oxygen, etc. - makes the final recycling of the packaging very difficult, if not impossible. This company is looking for new and improved ways to make this type of packaging easier to recycle ... and they need your help!

REWARD: $75,000 USD

This company is one of the largest consumer products companies in the world. Its products are some of the world's best-known brands that make consumers lives healthier and more enjoyable. It reaches consumers in more than 200 countries and has operations in over 80 countries.

As part of its aggressive environmental goals, this company has developed ultra concentrated liquids for its popular line of dishwashing liquids and fabric conditioners that fit in smaller, more environmentally-friendly containers. Unfortunately, consumers, so accustomed to using the regular concentrated liquids in regular-sized containers, frequently use too much of the ultra concentrated liquids.

This company is looking for your ideas for a new method, device or mechanism for dispensing liquid from containers of ultra concentrated dishwashing liquid or fabric conditioner that make consumers feel that they are being helped, rather than cheated, when buying ultra concentrated products. Your idea must help the consumer dispense an accurate amount of ultra concentrated liquid so they don't 'over-dose' ... but, just as important, your idea must be more aesthetically appealing and intuitively more convenient and user-friendly for the consumer so that it acts as a catalyst for consumers to change their normal purchasing habits.

REWARD: $50,000 USD

This company is one of the largest consumer products companies in the world. It tests 100’s of new product formulations each year. According to the company’s quality standards, any change in product formulation requires a revalidation of the formulation to be successfully completed. Revalidation involves an accelerated aging process that simulates 24 to 36 months of shelf life and product aging in only 12 to 18 weeks.

The company is looking to improve its accelerated aging process. It wants to reduce the amount of time it normally takes to complete the 12 to 18 week process. And it thinks that you may have a new predictive method or technology solution that will help them to do that!

REWARD: See Challenge Details

BP's Gulf of Mexico oil leak containment actions continue - add your ideas, concepts and solutions to their toolkit for addressing this catastrophic event and saving the world's oceans.

The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico which happened as a result of an oil rig explosion April 20th is getting larger and larger as time passes by. Last week a third leak in the oil rig was found which is throwing the most amount of oil into the water. According to several experts, the oil leakage will probably surpass the largest oil spill in history which happened in 1989 as a result of the BP oil spill from Exxon Valdez in Alaska.

As of the latest update, the output from the oil leakage is getting closer and closer to the Louisana coastline and could pose a major threat to marine life all over the globe.

REWARD: $80,000 USD

A leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances who has built its reputation on giving consumers what they want while at the same time finding new ways to make their life easier is looking for you and your team to revolutionize the process of doing laundry.

The laundry process can be a chore from pre-laundering to washing, drying, then folding, stacking, hanging, storing and oh yes, ironing. These days, people are time-starved, looking for ways to simplify their lives and create order in their homes.

The Fabric Care department of this company needs your innovative ideas for accessories to make the consumer's laundry life easier and more enjoyable, and at the same time, make the laundry space more inviting.

REWARD: $50,000 USD

This company is one of the world's most respected leaders in the premium alcoholic drinks business. It has a long history of being at the forefront of responsible alcohol consumption and is the proud champion of some of the top spirits, wines and beer brands in the world.

The company is looking for new and innovative ideas for its North American business region that can help make it more environmentally friendly. These ideas can relate to the product itself, its production, its distribution, retail sales, consumption, packaging or disposal of their products.

REWARD: $40,000 USD

For over 50 years, this international humanitarian charitable organization has motivated millions of people to help end the suffering of impoverished children through their monthly donation program - Child Sponsorship. This program helps support its many long-term international development projects and address global issues, such as child rights, hunger, and health.

Now it is looking to engage women 27-45 yrs old with something beyond its traditional Child Sponsorship program. It wants to get women in this age demographic thinking differently about poverty – it’s looking to rethink how it motivates and engages these women into contributing financially to end child poverty and injustice in the poorest countries of the world. It’s looking for you to provide your ideas and concepts on how it might move them from their traditional thinking to a position where they truly believe that through their own creativity, their own power and their own determination they can end child poverty and create a better world.

REWARD: Negotiated royalty on ALL sales over 3 years (est min $75,000 USD)

As unemployment numbers hit their highest levels in decades and recessionary news dominates headlines, TV infomercial advertising of personal consumer products and home goods is thriving.

So what is a TV infomercial? A TV Infomercial is a TV program devoted exclusively to promoting the product. It has several calls-to-action spaced throughout the show and generally displays the benefits of the product couched in an air of urgency in order to stimulate immediate action to purchase.

Believe it or not, there is no single formula for a successful TV infomercial product but there are some guidelines which generally spell success. Products that work well on TV infomercials are consumer products which can get the viewing audience excited enough to make an impulse buy. They're generally new products that are highly demonstrable, make life easier and solve a problem. They can also be products that sell instant gratification and can make your dreams come true.

This company is one of the world's most experienced producers of TV infomercials. It has generated billions of dollars in sales from some amazingly successful consumer and home goods products and it's now looking to you to find it the next BIG CONSUMER PRODUCT and/or HOME GOODS idea which it can sell through the TV infomercial channel.

REWARD:    2% royalty continued over 4 years (est min USD $50,000) on ALL sales of your product idea or concept once it has been commercialized

This company is a specialty candy company that has been in business worldwide for over 60+ years. It is known for manufacturing and m?rketing unique, fun, exciting and affordable holiday candy in many novel shapes and forms.

This company takes great pride in offering leading edge, innovative products with exciting packaging to their retail customers that are in turn purchased and enjoyed by the end consumer because of their great taste and wonderful eating experience.

The company is asking you for your innovative ideas or concepts for a new holiday candy that is unique, fun, exciting which will get the retailers excited and consumers buying!

REWARD:    USD$50K

This company is one of the world's most respected leaders in the premium alcoholic drinks business. It has a long history of being at the forefront of responsible alcohol consumption and is the proud champion of some of the top spirits, wines and beer brands in the world.

The company is asking you to create a new, innovative product for 'Scott' that offers an alternative to his drink of choice: traditional 'mass-market' beer - a category of alcohol where the company has little presence and no dominant brands.

Many of this company's products were the creations of entrepreneurs known for their inventiveness ... and they are looking for you to come up with a new idea that will become their next heritage brand of the future. To find out more about this challenge and who 'Scott' is, please read the Challenge Details...

REWARD:    Market value to be negotiated

The worsening global economy is causing an economic crisis at hospitals across the world - in both developed and under-developed countries.

As a consequence of big budget shortfalls, governments have cut back on hospit?l funding. Hospitals that typically run at a budget deficit or near-deficit in the best of times are forced to make terrible choices to meet their annual budgets - including aggressive downsizing of staff, elimination or deterioration of service, higher patient charges, longer wait times, and difficulty accessing service.

In response, hospitals are looking for new ways to cut costs without negatively affecting service. They are looking to solve an existing purchasing and inventory problem that can impact their bottom-line by up to $20-million each year ... and they need your help!

REWARD:    USD$40K

For over 50 years, this International Humanitarian Organization has motivated millions of people to help end the suffering of impoverished children. It is now looking for sustainable ideas/ways to appeal to the 25-to-39 donor to help end child poverty through their core monthly pledge program - child sponsorship. They are looking for breakthrough ideas that are sustainable and change the way child sponsorship programs are perceived by this target audience. Ideas which take account of this generation's expectations to be more than passive donors; that they have a high level of awareness and concern for global issues; and whose communication and social media habits and preferences are also profoundly unlike previous generations.

? REWARD:    USD$50K

Alcohol beverages are consumed by millions of adults every day, all over the world, as they have done for thousands of years. Many of the brands that these people enjoy are the brands of this company.

This company has a long history of being at the forefront of responsible alcohol consumption. It's with this long legacy of responsibility and good corporate citizenship that it is looking to add a new, innovative and responsible product to its already well established portfolio of some of the world's most recognized and respected product brands. This new idea should have a 'wide appeal' to people within the 21 to 34 years of age category.

Operating in 180 markets, this company is considered a leading innovator in its industry. Through its R&D and innovation activities it strives to take a leadership position in every category and market in which it chooses to compete. It has also worked diligently to be a leader in promoting responsible consumption - its innovative partnerships and programs support a continued commitment to combating alcohol misuse, raising consumer awareness and setting and maintaining world class standards in responsible marketing.

REWARD:    USD$80K

One of the world's largest packaging companies is looking for a new packaging idea or design that will revolutionize the world of food packaging. The company is looking to solve an existing packaging problem in the food sector that negatively affects the consumer, retailer and brand owner and accounts for over 10% loss in potential annual sales. In the customer-driven world of food packaging it is imperative that this company remains at the cutting edge of its industry and is able to innovate quickly. It is looking to rapidly implement your new big packaging idea or design to help its food customer increase its productivity, competitiveness and profitability.

REWARD:    USD$75K

Two globally respected organizations (Hewlett-Packard and The Financial Times) have joined forces with the sustainable development charity, Forum for the Future, to hunt for the most innovative ways to tackle global warming. They are looking for exciting business ideas that tackle one of the greatest social challenges of our time - Climate Change. They are looking for exciting business ideas that are below the radar but can be taken to scale quickly and make a real difference. They could be anything from new technologies, systems or services, novel organizations or business models OR even social innovations that help individuals become more resilient to the local impacts of climate change. Nothing is out of consideration as long as it shows a sustainable route out of the current crisis of global warming.

REWARD:    USD$50K

This Not-For-Profit organization is looking for totally new way to deal with hunger and overcome malnutrition. It is looking for a new business model that will create a social movement which will inspire 'super evangelists' to their core mission and values of "Feed the Hungry" and "Every Single Person Can Contribute To Help End Hunger and Malnutrition". This new model should go beyond traditional food recovery where edible food that would otherwise go to waste is retrieved and distributed to those in need.

REWARD:    USD$100K

This Global auto manufacturer is looking for breakthrough marketing and promotional ideas that will attract new buyers to their brand and not just pull current product buyers forward. They are currently operating in a down turn economy and experiencing a market with changing consumer tastes all of which have resulted in a significant reduction in the sales of cars and light trucks. They are currently looking to wean themselves from traditional incentives used to attract buyers (discounts and revenue rebates) to jumpstart their revenue growth.

REWARD:    USD$100K

The need for innovation is the clean air arena is dire: studies indicate that indoor air is typically 10 times more polluted than outside airand potentially up to 100 times more polluted. This consumer goods leader is seeking a product which achieves the goal of delivering "healthy air" to the consumer, just as the healthy food and water industries have thrived as a result of the consumer's awareness of the environmental and health impact of some food and water.

REWARD:    USD$100K

A snack that doesnt include food? This Fortune Global 500 food company is looking for a radically different idea to increase revenue that is not a new food idea.

Traditionally, companies in this sector have focused on coming up with new food product ideas such as new types of food, new shapes for the food, new textures for the food and new combinations of food, etc. Although there is room for new foods, the company believes snacking could be taken to a whole new level and are looking for a new way to deliver satisfaction that is not focused on the food.

REWARD:    USD$50K

This Fortune Global 500 manufacturer is looking for a new way to sell their products directly to their end customers. Currently, its products are sold in places such as convenience stores, gas bars, food and grocery stores, department stores and drug stores. They want to continue selling through these locations but would like an idea or concept that is a unique and competitive alternative. This idea or concept would provide them with more control over key decisions such as the pricing of their products, the availability of their products and the communication about their products.

REWARD:    USD$75K (minimum)

One of the worlds largest food and beverage companies is looking for a new big idea for a cheese snack that people will love when eaten, but that still helps them maintain the nutritional balance that they strive for. This new cheese snack product idea should also have all the attributes of a tasty snack but still has the characteristics that makes it a safe nutritional choice.

REWARD:    USD$50K (minimum)

This Fortune 500 manufacturer and distributor of consumer products is looking for breakthrough innovation in the area of its current business model. It is looking to modify the retail environment in order to deliver more value to the consumer and differentiate their brands. By doing so, the company aims to strengthen its relationship with existing consumers and win converts to its brands.