Much head-scratching over the new M&S print/poster campaign (at least that’s what I assume it is) from RKCR/Y&R featuring various well-known (and not so well-known, at least to me) gals. In this one we have: Monica Ali, Ellie Goulding, Karen ...
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RKCR/Y&R, as WPP’s Y&R agency still insists on being known in London, is, amongst other things, a great incubator of new agencies. Maybe that’s why it keeps the Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe bit (even though all but one have departed) ...
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How can you have a Prince of Cambridge? But Queen Elizabeth ll is rather fond of showering her family with ersatz titles these days so we’ve got one: William and Kate’s new (as yet unnamed) baby boy. And various brands ...
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Before Steve Sharp (left) joined Marks & Spencer as marketing director in 2004 – as part of Stuart Rose’s management team hired to fend off a takeover bid from Philip Green – M&S barely used to advertise. It had hired, ...
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Food porn, dont’cha miss it? Back in the 90s, or thereabouts, Marks & Spencer was famous for its orgasmic food ads and now Sainsbury’s and trusty agency AMV/BBDO appears to be rehearsing the genre in this new campaign. Well it’s ...
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With all of the worrying news on the UK retail scene (Comet, Jessops, now HMV) it makes me wonder to what extent management of these companies genuinely listen to what the great unwashed actually think. I fully understand the energy ...
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The news was predictable albeit the detail about UK retail trading was not so easy. Would Tesco pull back share, would M&S turn the corner, would HMV survive? Then camera chain Jessop goes bump in the night before we’ve taken ...
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