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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 [...]

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