Tag Archives: Sainsburys

AMV group CEO Cilla Snowball should have been sitting down with a nice glass of Asda prosecco tonight until – ping! – it emerges that Walmart-owned Asda in the UK is about to merge with Sainsbury’s, the massive UK supermarket ...

Waitrose is visiting the Geoffrey Boycott Appreciation Society up in’t Dales – courtesy of adam&eveDDB – and the poor souls are snowed in, it being Christmas. But Waitrose comes to the rescue, naturally (bet they’re giving the venison at £60 ...

Wieden+Kennedy is continuing its high octane advertising for Sainsbury’s, this time with “What’s for dinner,’ expressed via emojis. Aagh! I think we’ll institute an award for the best ad – or maybe any ad – that doesn’t include smartphones, gadgets ...

Sainsbury’s has confirmed what everyone knew: viz, that it’s keeping its media account at Omnicom’s PHD which is also set to pick up Argos (which Sainsbury’s now owns) from WPP’s Mindshare. Small earthquake in the supermarket, not many dead then? ...

Sainsbury’s and Wieden+Kennedy seem to have abandoned ‘food dancing’ – for now anyway, it’s a bit hot for that in summer. Instead we’re offered ‘table squish’ with lots of Sainsbury’s food goodies for outdoor eating. Nicely done but real life ...

Campaign’s Gideon Spanier reckons that Sainsbury’s is reversing its decision to move its amalgamated £115m media account (Sainsbury’s and Argos) into The&Partnership’s m/Six Media and sticking with long-time incumbent PHD. The business moved to m/Six at the start of the ...

Much chatter in UK adland about how exactly Sainsbury’s will follow its ‘Food Dancing’ debut campaign from Wieden+Kennedy. We’ve still got ‘Living Well,’ this time triggered by getting messy for summer. Sainsbury’s says: “Messy hands celebrates the uninhibited pleasures of ...

Can Argos give Sainsbury’s the lift to set it apart from its competitors? Sainsbury’s/Argos is certainly trying, helped by any number of ingenious wheezes from its agency CHI. The latest such is 80 “date-stamped” short ads linking various Argos products ...

We all thought the Sainsbury’s consolidated media account worth £115m – it now owns Argus too – had gone to The&Partnership’s m/SIX media agency with Sainsbury’s moving from Omnicom’s PHD and Argos from WPP’s Mindshare. T&P is 49 per cent ...