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For those of you with the moral fortitude and infinite patience (possibly with the help of a few drinks) to have stayed with me this long, we are nearly at the end of the journey. This is part one of ...

Is it possible to produce an un-cheesy ad featuring a barbecue? The wholly unexpected British summer has had agencies defrosting their barbecue scripts from cold storage and Wieden+Kennedy London enters the fray with this, one of the latest in its ...

BETC London has appointed Simon Morris (left) to the newly-created position of head of art. In this new role Morris will lead the agency’s art direction, governing the style, look and feel across all clients including Bacardi, Diet Coke, Samsung ...

Wieden+Kennedy London has won Tesco’s circa £110m account, presumably because of its record in producing brilliant ads. Now what are they going to do? Every little helps, as they used to say, so here’s a potted review of some great ...

Six agencies appear to have made the cut for the first presentations for the £110m Tesco UK account: McCann, SapientNitro, VCCP, WCRS and WPP-owned Grey and JWT. The list may be added to but many people’s favourite Publicis seems to ...

Paul Weinberger (pictured) is chairman of Tesco agency The Red Brick Road and the creative who’s nursed Tesco along for the past 20 years, first at Lowe Howard-Spink, then Lowe & Partners and then at breakaway The Red Brick Road. ...

David Wood, a former European marketing at Kraft and before then a Unilever marketer, has been brought back from his current job as commercial director of Tesco in Hungary to head the embattled retailer’s UK marketing. He replaces Carolyn Bradley ...

It’s always dangerous (indeed almost unheard of) to write off the mighty Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, but in the UK anyway the company does not seem to be able to pull the marketing levers with the same precision it ...

You have to feel for Tesco CEO Phil Clarke (pictured), no sooner had he taken over from long-serving and highly successful predecessor Sir Terry Leahy, than UK retail sales fell off a cliff, hitting supermarket food sales too for the ...