By Stephen Foster on August 8, 2012
RKCR/Y&R is proving a useful grounding for breakaways and now Joint, the agency formed by former Y&R directors Damon Collins and Richard Exon, has landed its first piece of business – Verde, the name for the 600 or so bank branches bought from LLoyds TSB by the Co-op. Adam & Eve, the John Lewis agency [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Damon Collins, joint, Lloyds TSB, Richard Exon, rkcr/y&r, verde, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2012
Lloyds TSB (41 per cent owned by UK taxpayers, which include me) has sent customers of its Premier Account (which also include me) a note about ‘important changes’ to the aforementioned account (for which I pay about £10 a month), supposedly to our benefit. And what does paragraph two say? I quote: From 2 October [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged Antonio Horta-Osorio, co-op bank, George Parker, hbos, Lloyds TSB, overdraft charges, premier account
By Staff on March 12, 2012
Which isn’t very reassuring for chancellor George Osborne and UK taxpayers who are still hoping to recover the near £60bn spent on bailing out RBS and Lloyds Banking Group at the height of the credit crunch in 2009. That’s the conclusion UK brand agency Clear draws from its new Brand Desire Study 2012 anyway. Clear [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged apple, barclays, brand agency, brand desire study 2012, clear, desirable brands, first direct, google, hsbc, James Osmond, lloyds banking group, Lloyds TSB, nat west, paypal, RBS, Sainsburys, Tesco, uk high street banks
By David O'Reilly on November 11, 2010
The Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank brought to the edge of destruction by the infamous Sir Fred Goodwin and now owned by the taxpayer, is searching for a PR company. A pretty tall order you might think, especially when it is said that the brief is to restore the public’s faith in its brand [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, PR | Tagged barclays, hsbc, Lloyds TSB, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin
By David O'Reilly on October 28, 2010
Marks and Spencer tops the list of the UK’s most trusted brands, just one of seven retailers in the top ten, according to a new report. The venerable clothes and food retailer is followed by John Lewis, Tesco, Boots and the Co-operative, with cool high-tech brands such as Amazon and Apple in close pursuit. Perhaps [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged Amazon, apple, barclays, hsbc, John Lewis, Lloyds TSB, marketing, Marks and Spencer, NatWest, Tesco
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