Tag Archives: Waitrose

As the Christmas advertising hits our TV screens it’s interesting to see Waitrose go completely off piste and abandon the competition for the most expensive production. I’ve read some mutterings about whether this is wise or not but one outcome ...

Well here’s a funny thing. Waitrose, owned by John Lewis, has decided to axe its expected all-singing-and-dancing Christmas ad in favour of donating an extra £600,000 to charity, which it claims it will save on production costs. Although it still ...

Last week we ordered two cases of wine from Waitrose with the offer of a five per cent discount. They arrived but it was the wrong wine so a call was made to Waitrose over the weekend. That’s when things ...

Retail’s the story of the moment for UK ad agencies with Tesco’s £110m pitch lumbering into gear, the John Lewis account powering Adam & Eve into a £60m deal with Omnicom’s DDB London and now the Co-op switching its £50m ...

The last one being a bank holiday weekend we decided to do the traditional thing and drive to the coast. We went west from London down to the Christchurch/Lymington area. Very nice part of the world and the views of ...

I’ve just been to vote for the next Mayor of London and, walking down the street, I was thinking about the ‘headline’ views most people will have about the candidates. That turned in to wondering to what extent people in ...

Here in the UK one of the biggest advertising accounts is up for grabs, Tesco worth £100m+ annually. For readers outside the UK some very brief context. The global financial problems have hit the high street with a number of ...

Tesco CEO Phil Clarke is due to unveil his plans to revive Tesco on Wednesday although readers of the UK’s Sunday papers probably know the answers already: relaunching its value range, more staff with more kit and warmer colours in ...

New London agency Now calls itself an “agency for the accelerated world” but in its early days the agency seemed to go into rapid reverse. The agency was formed by former COI boss Mark Lund last year, seemingly with the ...