Did you notice any brands that celebrated milestones during 2025? If yes, did you see any new or altered logos to reflect the celebrations?
Brand logos often feature years, numbers, colors, circles, and other design elements to reflect special milestones and anniversaries. The updated logos then appear on websites, social media, collateral, Zoom backgrounds, email signatures, and more.
Here are six brands that celebrated milestones during 2025:
THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
During 2025, the Marine Mammal Center, based in Sausalito, California, celebrated its 50th anniversary.
According to the nonprofit's website, "The Marine Mammal Center is celebrating 50 years of creating a healthy ocean for marine mammals and humans alike. With ocean conditions rapidly changing, this work is more important than ever. From its beginnings in 1975, the Center has held marine mammal welfare at its core. This remains true today, while our organization has grown and evolved significantly over the years — especially in the last decade. We continue to respond to marine mammals in distress and provide them with life-saving care, but our mission extends beyond that now. While much of this work is about giving individual patients the care they need for the best possible second chance, it is also about populations as a whole, the health of our ocean and human health.
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, we celebrate the growth of the Center and our successes throughout the decades — including gaining insights from the more than 27,000 patients we’ve rescued, scientific discoveries that increase the understanding of our ocean’s health, achievements in student education and public outreach, contributions to endangered species conservation, efforts to advocate for a healthy ocean and more. Through our first 50 years of research, which has been cited in scientific literature more than 2,000 times, we have learned that the fate of marine mammals is closely linked to our own. By better understanding these connections and finding solutions for the threats marine mammals face, we take action to protect our future and inspire the next generation of ocean advocates. Our ocean is in trouble, and it is more important than ever to protect the marine ecosystems that are vital to the health of all life on Earth. We must educate and inspire people to act in support of ocean, marine mammal, and human health — our collective future depends on it. Will you join us for the next 50 years and beyond?"
CANINE COMPANIONS
During 2025, Canine Companions, based in San Rafael, California, celebrated its 50th anniversary.
According to the nonprofit's website, "Founded on July 4, 1975, Canine Companions made history by creating the concept of what is now the modern-day service dog. We have celebrated many milestones over the past five decades, but our mission remains the same: To provide expertly trained service dogs to individuals with disabilities and facility dogs to professionals, free of charge."
RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
During 2025, the Radio City Rockettes, an American precision dance company based in New York City, celebrated its 100th anniversary. Founded in 1925 in St. Louis, they have, since 1932, performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. They are best known for starring in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, an annual Christmas show, and for performing annually since 1957 at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. According to its website, "Rockettes are part of a legacy of women who inspire, empower, and create change together."
GEORGIA AQUARIUM
During 2025, the Georgia Aquarium, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and containing more than 11 million gallons of water, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Its mission is to inspire awareness and preservation of our ocean and aquatic animals worldwide.
According to the nonprofit's website, "Join Us in Our 20th Year. As we celebrate this milestone, we invite you to be part of our journey. Whether you’re visiting for the first time or the hundredth, there has never been a better time to experience the magic of Georgia Aquarium. Explore our galleries, witness the wonder of marine life up close, and join us in our mission to protect and preserve our ocean for generations to come."
And here are two more brands that stood out:
FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE
During 2025, Friends of Fondation de France, based in New York City, celebrated its 25th anniversary of French-American philanthropy.
According to a press release on the organization's website, "For more than 250 years, France and the United States have shared a long-standing partnership that continues today. With July celebrated as French-American Heritage month to honor the significant contributions made to America by people of French descent, Friends of Fondation de France, a U.S. nonprofit, is also celebrating its 25th anniversary and the strong ties between the two countries strengthened by philanthropy. French-American philanthropy has been essential in sustaining important causes — from the restoration of Versailles by the Rockefeller family a century ago to the mobilization of U.S. support for restoration efforts after the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in 2019, Friends of Fondation de France is dedicated to advancing French-American philanthropy on both sides of the Atlantic. Friends of Fondation de France enables U.S.-based donors to achieve their philanthropic visions with tax-deductible donations that support causes meaningful to them — in France and beyond. As a trusted partner of more than 180 nonprofit organizations, Friends of Fondation de France provides nonprofits with the tailor-made guidance needed to launch or grow their fundraising in the U.S."
Domitille Marchal Lemoine, executive director, Friends of Fondation de France, explained, "Philanthropy offers a powerful pathway to foster our shared values. As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Friends of Fondation de France, I feel honored to be part of this rich legacy as today, more than ever, we strive to strengthen the special bond between both countries."
MICROSOFT
While a new logo didn't appear, this brand changed everyone's lives and celebrated its 50th anniversary during 2025. According to one Microsoft celebratory website, "With 50 years of history, we all have a memory with Microsoft tech. We’d love to hear your favorite tech memories, moments of impact, or Microsoft story. Share it on social with #Microsoft50."
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the following remarks at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, "Fifty years ago, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft with a simple but powerful idea: to build technology so people everywhere could build more technology. The very first product Microsoft built was the Basic interpreter for the Altair, giving people the power to create software, jumpstarting the PC revolution, and creating an entirely new sector for our economy...This is why we are leading this new wave of AI innovation and more importantly, democratizing it, just like we did with the PC. From there we’ve gone to chat, to multi file edits, and now to agents. More than 150 million developers in nearly every country around the world are using GitHub...Ultimately, it all comes down to our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. I’ve always thought of Microsoft as a platform and partner-first company, and this has only been possible because of our customers, our partners and developers, and our 1.6 million employees, past and present, who have connected their passion with our purpose to get us where we are today. And it’s you who will continue to build this company to have impact around the world well into the future."
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Image Credits: The Marine Mammal Center, Canine Companions, Radio City Rockettes, and Georgia Aquarium.
Learn more about the brands and their exciting milestones featured in this post:
https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/celebrating-50-years-of-the-marine-mammal-center
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https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/timeline-of-the-marine-mammal-center
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https://canine.org/50thanniversary/
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https://www.rockettes.com/rockettes-100/
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https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/celebrating-20-years/
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https://www.friendsoffdf.org/news/
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