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All advertisers want people to feel good about their brand – and many are the communications embarrassments that ensue. If they can disrupt the competition so much the better. Burger King is rivalling McDonald’s in the proper coffee stakes with ...

Someone sent this in, an interesting play on those annoying strings that companies insist on attaching to tea bags in places that don’t really drink tea. Like Starbucks. No idea where Schumos Coffee hails from – Germany? Might be a ...

We’re in the middle of our ads of the year extravaganza (Paul Simons and Giles Keeble in the bag, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and me still to come) but there’s no doubt what the movement of the year ...

There’s a grave danger that the witch-hunt against global brands who fail to pay their “fair share” of UK corporation tax will boomerang on the political class that has instigated it. Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been chief whipping boys ...

Fika is the Swedish word for coffee break apparently and it’s the theme of this new ad, featuring naughty-but-nice spokesman Johan, for Gevalia coffee from brand owner Kraft and current agency of the moment Taxi New York (a month ago ...

Well not quite but the coffee giant has announced it is going to expand its move into selling wine, beer and ‘premium’ food to Atlanta and Southern California after a quiet trial on its home turf of Seattle and Portland. ...

McDonald’s is to spend upwards of a billion dollars upgrading its 14,000 or so US restaurants (and presumably ones around the world too at some stage) to make them look more inviting (not difficult) so that more people linger over ...

To be honest it stretches credulity a little bit – would a huge family party be happy to tuck into KFC with not a home-made egg sandwich in sight? And no booze? Well full marks to Bartle Bogle Hegarty for ...

Everybody’s (least) favourite company Kraft has lost the first (and likely crucial) round in its fight to stop Starbucks ending its ten year distribution deal Kraft had tried to claim in a US court that its agreement to distribute Starbucks ...