It’s going to be a rough old Christmas for some agencies as they head into a distinctly unpromising 2023 and Publicis.Poke, the somewhat unconvincing amalgam of Publicis with Poke and Arc within Publicis Groupe, has lost its flagship account Morrisons ...
Read More »Morrisons reviews creative account as it charts tricky-looking post-buyout future
Morrisons, recently displaced as the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket group by Aldi, is reviewing its creative account at Publicis.Poke (an amalgam of Publicis with its digital agency.) Morrisons is now owned by US private equity group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice which ...
Read More »Under-siege Morrisons unveils new brand platform
Morrisons has emerged from the pandemic with a new brand platform – “Make good things happen” – as you do. From Publicis.Poke. Morrisons has had a quite a good war – continuing to fend off the depredations of Aldi and ...
Read More »Morrisons shows what it’s made of in best Publicis effort
The business story of the year in the UK is shaping to be the laying waste of the high street and bigger supermarkets by a combination of online shopping and penal business rates (some £27bn a year). Here and there ...
Read More »Paul Simons: is Asda heading up the same one-way retail street as Morrisons?
The latest news of Asda appointing Saatchi & Saatchi is the latest in retailers feeling the pinch and therefore looking for a quick fix. The reality is that former agency VCCP and S&S have similar levels of talent in their ...
Read More »Morrisons unearths ‘Tradition’ in Publicis debut
Morrisons has shifted its account from DLKW Lowe (as was) to Publicis and is the first supermarket out of the traps with its Easter offering. Supermarkets believe Easter is a time for big family gatherings, usually to be found eating ...
Read More »VCCP on alert as Asda picks new marketing boss
Asda, which seems to have taken more of a kicking in the supermarket price wars than its rivals, has replaced long-serving marketing boss Barry Williams with Andy Murray (not that one), who joins from owner Walmart. Williams spent eight years ...
Read More »Morrisons set to land at Publicis London
Morrisons is expected to confirm the appointment of Publicis as its creative agency. JWT was the other finalist while CHI, WCRS and Grey were also involved in the pitch process. Morrisons’ brand and communications director is Mike Hoban, who appointed ...
Read More »Supermarket pitch wars, GroupM’s Connect, all change at UK Mediabrands – and other stories
*I hear that a couple of the agencies have dropped off the Morrisons pitch list, including the WPP representatives. This could be due to the competing attractions of Aldi and the Co-op, both also reviewing, or the way Morrisons handles ...
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