Tesco, it has emerged, has been cooking the books for years. Today outgoing chairman (as of today) Sir Richard Broadbent announced that the overstatement of its profits amounts to £263m (as opposed to the earlier estimate of £250m) and goes ...
Read More »Tesco walks the talk at Xmas with food donations
I’ve read quite a few funny articles about the Christmas barrage coming at us from all directions. The most common grump is the start time of the advertising; it began in earnest during November. I understand retailers who sell goods ...
Read More »Harvey Nichols and DDB summon up spirit of Scooge
Our correspondent Ebenezer Scrooge would doubtless approve of this Harvey Nichols ‘I spent it on myself’ gift collection. Agency Adam&Eve/DDB certainly believes in pulling out the stops for the upmarket London bazaar, not always happily as with its model wetting ...
Read More »Is this year’s Christmas campaign the last chance saloon for Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland?
M&S issued a press release on October 30 announcing its ‘widely anticipated’ Christmas TV campaign; today it gets its ‘consumer premier’ on the M&S website and social media channels ahead of the big reveal in the centre break of Coronation ...
Read More »Hats on to Christmas ‘reality’ from W+K for Tesco
UK Advertisers and adland seem to have (mostly) held their hands up this year and admitted that Christmas is a bit of an ordeal. But best to get on with it, see it through and, of course, buy their products. ...
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