KATY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 15, 2026--
Igloo, The Cooler Brand, launched its special-edition 2026 Valentine's Day Collection today, featuring two standout product lines — in partnership with Sweethearts® Candies and Sanrio® — that bring more fun and nostalgia to the holiday. Available now at igloocoolers.com/valentines, each giftable assortment includes custom coolers and stainless-steel drinkware featuring the popular conversation hearts and favorite Hello Kitty and Friends characters. It’s a Valentine’s Day Collection to crush on.
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Igloo’s special-edition collection makes awesome gifts for a cooler Valentine's Day and/or Galentine's Day with friends and loved ones — nostalgic styles that channel the good old days of sleepovers, filling out Valentine’s Day cards, flipping through magazines and gushing about crushes. The Sweethearts® Collection showcases the iconic conversation hearts that have been a Valentine's staple for generations, while the Hello Kitty® and Friends x Sweethearts® collaboration combines fan-favorite Sanrio® characters (who encourage friendship and happiness) with Sweethearts designs.
Sweethearts® Collection
This fun collection, in partnership with Sweethearts® Candies, illustrates the nostalgia of the beloved conversation hearts — a popular Valentine's candy that evokes grade school memories — across three creatively designed products. The unique Sweethearts® Be Mine Cooler Bag ($39.99) is shaped like a conversation heart with a glossy "BE MINE" text detail and heart-shaped zipper pulls. The collection also includes a stainless-steel 32 Oz Travel Mug ($39.99) with a leakproof flip ‘n’ sip lid and a "BE MINE" heart-shaped straw topper, along with a stainless-steel 16 Oz Can ($22.99) with a leakproof lid and Sweethearts designs.
Hello Kitty® and Friends x Sweethearts® Collection
Igloo’s exciting collection, in partnership with Sanrio and Sweethearts®, connects long-loved characters — Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll™, Kuromi™, My Melody™, Pochacco™ and Pompompurin™ — with iconic Sweethearts® conversation hearts on supercute stainless-steel drinkware and coolers. The Hello Kitty® and Friends x Sweethearts® 32 Oz Travel Mug ($39.99) features a "UR SWEET" conversation heart straw topper with matte, textured character artwork, while the Vertical Lunch Cooler bag ($22.99) is designed with Hello Kitty holding a "BE MINE" conversation heart and a red exterior with an allover heart pattern. The collection is rounded out with a red 16 Oz Can ($22.99) featuring themed artwork with multiple characters and a pink Little Playmate ($46.99) also showcasing beloved Sanrio characters holding Sweethearts® conversation hearts.
The complete Igloo Valentine's Day Collection is available now at igloocoolers.com/valentines and select items at Walmart.com.
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About Igloo:
Born from a modest metalworking shop back in 1947, Igloo has been instrumental in redefining how we live, work and play. What began with bringing clean water to the worksite quickly moved into super-functional, best-in-class ice chests. Igloo products made the family outdoor recreation movement of the 20th century possible. Suddenly, taking your kids camping on the weekend became easy and cross-country road trips became a summer vacation staple.
As we approach our next century, Igloo is 1,200 employees strong. We are proud to call—a 1.8-million-square-foot, three-building facility in—Katy, Texas home. With more than 500 products sold at thousands of retailers around the globe, we can confidently call ourselves the number one cooler manufacturer in the world.
And through it all we haven’t lost sight of our original goal—to create products that enable the pursuit of happiness (however you define it). That’s why we’re still working hard every day to innovate, create and make it easier for you to get out, work hard and play even harder.
Igloo Makes Valentine's Day Cooler with Two Special-Edition Collections to Crush On
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said in a video and statement on X that she sacked the party's justice spokesperson Robert Jenrick due to “irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" in a way that was “designed to be as damaging as possible” to the party. Badenoch also ejected Jenrick from the party's ranks in Parliament and suspended his party membership.
“The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I,” she said. “They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in this government. I will not repeat those mistakes.”
Though Badenoch did not specify which party Jenrick was planning to switch to, Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right Reform UK party, said he had “of course” had conversations with him.
In the past 12 months, the Conservatives have suffered a string of defections to Reform UK, including some former Cabinet ministers.
Farage said in a press briefing in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, that coincided with Badenoch's statement that, “hand on heart,” he wasn't about to present Jenrick as the latest Conservative to defect to Reform, an upstart, anti-immigration party.
“I’ll give him a ring this afternoon,” he said. “I might even buy him a pint, you never know.”
The Conservatives are fighting not just the Labour government to their left, but Reform UK to the right.
Reform, which only has a handful of lawmakers in the House of Commons, is tipped to make a major breakthrough in an array of elections this May, including those to the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, at the expense of both the Conservatives and Labour.
Jenrick, who continued to attract speculation about leadership ambitions despite being beaten in 2024, has appeared more open than Badenoch to the prospect of some sort of deal between the Conservatives and Reform to unite the right in the run-up to next general election, which has to take place by 2029.
Jenrick has yet to respond to the news of his sacking.
Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose favorability ratings have fallen sharply since the general election following a series of missteps, questioned why it took Badenoch “so long” to sack Jenrick given all the speculation that he was looking to either challenge her or to defect to Reform.
Badenoch, a small-state, low-tax advocate, has shifted the Conservatives to the right, announcing policies similar to those of U.S. President Donald Trump, including a promise to deport 150,000 unauthorized immigrants a year.
Her poor poll ratings and lackluster performance in Parliament had stirred speculation that she could be ousted long before the next election.
However, she has been making a better impression in Parliament in recent weeks, particularly during her weekly questioning of Starmer, in a way that appears to have cemented her position as leader.
The party is no stranger to turmoil, having gone through six leaders in the space of 10 years, five of them serving as prime minister. Widespread anger at the way the Conservatives were governing Britain led to their defeat at the general election in July 2024, when they lost around two-thirds of their lawmakers, their worst performance since the modern party was created nearly 200 years ago.
Robert Jenrick speaking at a Reform UK press conference in Westminster, London, where it was announced the former Conservative MP has joined Reform UK, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
Robert Jenrick with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference in Westminster, London, where it was announced the former Conservative MP has joined Reform UK, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage addresses protesters outside the Iranian embassy, in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
Kemi Badenoch with Robert Jenrick before being announced as the new Conservative Party leader following the vote by party members at 8 Northumberland Avenue in central London, Nov. 3, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
