By Staff on February 22, 2013
** Moneysupermarket.com is getting a bit twitchy at Mother, we hear. The ‘Epic’ campaign has never been one of our faves; but Mother is a formidable agency. So why not just sit down and come up with something good? **Nokia, which seems to have brought itself back from the grave with its new smartphones, is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged corporate campaign, inferno, moneysupermarket.com, mother, moving accounts, nokia, RBS
By Paul Simons on July 27, 2012
When I saw the news Tesco had appointed Wieden & Kennedy to handle their £110m ad account my first reaction was ‘interesting and surprising decision’. The smart money would have been on Tesco hiring one of the big players and not an agency renowned for its outstanding creative output – Honda, Nike, etc. The reason [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged absolut, Asda, BT, cadbury, citibank, fallon, gorilla ad, honda, Land Rover, news corp, nike, Playstation, RBS, simons palmer, Sony, tag, Tesco, the news of the world, the sun, wieden & kennedy, Zone
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 Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012
Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and the more than rash expansion of the financial sector that made the consequences of the [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged banker bonuses, coalition government, credit crunch, financial sector, Labour, Peter Mandelson, RBS, Stephen Hester, today programme, £38bn lost
By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2012
Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And that it was Labour that decided that some public sector ‘workers’, like GPs and hospital [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alistair Darling, bankers, bonus, coalition government, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, hunting pinks, Labour, pr disaster, RBS, Stephen Hester, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on December 28, 2011
Actor Martin Clunes has travelled a long way since he first occupied centre stage in the iconic sitcom ‘Men Behaving Badly.’ These days he’s usually behaving distressingly well as ITV’s ‘Doc Martin’ among other characters. So RBS-owned Churchill Insurance has signed him up to whizz around the UK dispensing good works with Churchill the dog, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Amanda Walker, Bob Mortimer, churchill insurance, doc martin, Martin Clunes, men behaving badly, RBS, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on August 31, 2011
Ever since the crash of 2008 the world’s bankers, many of whom have pitched their tents in the UK, have had more verbal ordure heaped on them than any group of people since, well, the last religious martyrs in Western Europe. But are they bothered? No, it would seem, as the UK banks’ concerted and [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Angela Knight, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, barclays, Bob Diamond, british banking association, David Cameron, George Osborne, honk kong, hsbc, independent commission on banking, lloyds banking group, lobhbying, manchester united, Nick Clegg, pr blitz, RBS, Sir Alex Ferguson, Vince Cable, wall street
By Angie Dean on May 20, 2011
Not that this was Sir Fred’s intention of course when he took out a super-injunction (gagging order) preventing the press reporting details of an affair with a senior colleague, and even mention of the fact that he was (or had been) a banker. But Sir Fred, who presided over the near collapse of Royal Bank [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged abn amro, bailout, coalition government, footballers, free speech, judges, liberal democrat, Lord Oakeshott, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin
By Stephen Foster on February 15, 2011
Well there’s a vacancy apparently as ‘team Murray”, the gang of acolytes who surround GB’s latest frustrating tennis player, have ended their deal with Highland Spring mineral water and are looking for something a bit more prestigious and lucrative. Murray has other sponsors of course, including benighted Scottish bank RBS. But what’s Murray worth? Well [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Andy Murray, Fred Perry, highland spring, RBS, sponnsor search, wimbledon
By Stephen Foster on January 6, 2011
Royal Bank of Scotland analyst Paul Gooden won’t be the most popular man at WPP’s Farm Street HQ today as his view that WPP shares, flying high after record revenue increases in the second half of 2010, should be downgraded lopped 2.2 per cent off their value even as the FTSE London share index rose [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Research | Tagged london stock market, omnicom, Paul Gooden, RBS, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
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