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Tesco bounces back at Christmas but there's still lots of work to do for CEO Clarke and new agency W+K

Tesco bounces back at Christmas but there’s still lots of work to do for CEO Clarke and new agency W+K

By Staff on January 10, 2013

There’ll be extra muffins at Tesco Towers in Cheshunt this morning as the UK’s biggest retailer posted a 1.8 per cent sales gain in the six weeks to January 5, including the key Christmas period. The figures flatter somewhat as they compare with a disastrous 2.3 per cent sales decline in the same period last [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged aldi, Asda, Chris Bush, christmas sales, fresh & easy, Morrisons, online sales, Philip Clarke, Sainsburys, Tesco, wieden+kennedy

Memo to troubled Tesco: good advertising worked before, why not try some more now?

Memo to troubled Tesco: good advertising worked before, why not try some more now?

By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2012

Tesco has been a marketing-driven company ever since Ian MacLaurin (now the Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth) took over as boss at the end of the 1970s. MacLaurin ditched the old Green Shield trading stamps and ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ ethos along with its old ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi to move firmly upmarket [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Carolyn Bradley, christmas sales, clubcard, Dotty campaign, every little helps, Jane Horrocks, Karen Buchanan, Lord MacLaurin, Paul Hammersley, Philip Clarke, Prunella Scales, Richard Brasher, Sainsburys, share price crash, Sir Frank Lowe, Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco, the big price drop, Waitrose

Morrisons to challenge Mothercare with Best Buy deal while Tesco weighs Christmas sales slump

Morrisons to challenge Mothercare with Best Buy deal while Tesco weighs Christmas sales slump

By Stephen Foster on January 9, 2012

Who would have thought just a year ago that Morrisons, under new Canadian boss Dalton Philips, would be planning to dramatically increase its non-food business while long-term market leader Tesco, under new CEO, Phillip Clarke, would be facing a UK sales slump? But they are. Morrisons is planning to buy some or all of Best [...]

Posted in Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Asda, best buy, big price drop, carphone warehouse, christmas sales, Dalton Philips, kiddicare, Morrisons, mothercare, non-food, Philip Clarke, Sainsburys, Tesco, uk sales slump, wiatrose

Toyota Camry backs LG and YuMe Smart TV tie-up with first ad deal

Toyota Camry backs LG and YuMe Smart TV tie-up with first ad deal

By Staff on November 2, 2011

Internet TV has been hyped as the next big thing for ages now – and now maybe it is. Korean TV maker LG has tied up a deal with video advertising company YuMe to add an advertising capability to its new internet-connected ‘Smart’ TV sets and signed Toyota US as its first customer. Toyota is [...]

Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged app store, apple, camry, christmas sales, google, lg, marketing deal, new camry campaign, saatchi & saatchi LA, search screen, smart TV, Sony, toyota, us, video advertisng, yume

Housewife's friend Justin King wins the Christmas sales war for Sainsbury's

Housewife’s friend Justin King wins the Christmas sales war for Sainsbury’s

By Stephen Foster on January 12, 2011

By increasing his December sales by 7.8 per cent (and sales in the whole 12-week period by seven per cent) and nudging Sainsbury’s ahead of Asda in terms of December market share (16.6 to 16.5). The average sales increase of the big four (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons) was around five per cent so King, [...]

Posted in Clients, News | Tagged Asda, christmas sales, David Sainsbury, Dino Adriano, Justin King, marks & spencer, Morrisons, Peter Davis, Philip Clarke, Sainsburys, Tesco

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