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New Balance’s Grey Days return with series of activations

Grey Days 2025 returns to the region with an activation at Dubai's Koncrete and community-driven Grey 5k Runs.

GreyAna Elisa Seixas, Head of Marketing - MEAI, New Balance, at the New Balance x Koncrete activation.

New Balance has launched the 2025 iteration of Grey Days, a month-long celebration of its signature colour.

This May, consumers in the region can look forward to several activations that showcase the brand’s new collection such as the Grey 5k Runs and staggered ‘Grey drops’ over the month.

The initiative’s inspiration comes from how central the colour grey has been to the New Balance identity since the late 1970s. While competitor brands gave athletes and runners shoes in white, that would quickly get dirty, New Balance introduced ‘sneakers that wouldn’t show dirt’ as a solution for urban runners.

The brand kicked off its Grey Days campaign in the region with an activation in Dubai.


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.