Tag Archives: Asda

***Supermarket advertising is a funny old business isn’t it? Here’s the latest effort from Asda’s new agency, VCCP, for Easter – you can tell it’s Easter ‘cos it’s got a chick in it. Why does my heart sink when I ...

According to Adweek Evian’s ‘Baby & Me’ from BETC was the most-watched YouTube ad of 2013 vwith over 67m hits. Well you can’t say fairer than that and, although cute babies are not really our thing, BETC pulls it off ...

It certainly is if you see the market as we used to: a carve-up between Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Morrisons. The company, helmed by Justin King (left) for the last ten years, has seen its market share inch up to ...

Well it must have a decent chance (according to my calculator it’s about 50 per cent) but it finds itself up against Chime’s VCCP, which has made a name for itself recently with hard-selling advertising, the sort that retailers love. ...

We should be grateful for retail advertisers in the UK – they’re not usually part of a huge international business so they review their ad accounts quite regularly while the rest of the world tends to pick and choose from ...

Tesco CEO Phil Clarke is a combative type and now Tesco is launching a new ‘price promise,’ a version of Sainsbury’s’ highly successful Brand Match that offers shoppers up to ten quid off at the till if what they buy ...

During the early part of 1990, health officials in North Carolina, USA, made an alarming discovery. Some Perrier bottled mineral water, whose purity was so legendary they had used it to benchmark other water supplies, was found to be contaminated ...

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 ...

All companies make mistakes at some point and Fresh & Easy was a massive one for Tesco. So now Tesco is to close or offload (if it’s lucky) its West Coast convenience store venture: not just putting the patient out ...