Costa Launches Limited Edition Christmas Menu

Costa Launches Limited Edition Christmas Menu

Costa, one of the UK’s favourite coffee shop, launched its speciality food and beverage Christmas menu, available in all of Costa’s UK stores throughout the festive season. Christmas is about to sparkle like never before as this year’s Christmas range of indulgent speciality drinks not only taste great but look amazing too! Each drink has […]

Asda Goes For Rivals’ Jugulars With ‘Gimmick’ Free Christmas Campaign

Asda Goes For Rivals’ Jugulars With ‘Gimmick’ Free Christmas Campaign

Asda is launching an aggressive Christmas campaign that targets the other big four supermarkets’ shoppers with a message that claims “You’re Better off at Asda”. The supermarket claims its campaign, which consists of 20 “hardworking” Christmas TV ads, will have “no gimmicks, no promotions and no celebrity filled features”. Instead Asda will invest in lowering […]

Starbucks Unveils ‘Holiday 2013’ Paper Cup Designs

Starbucks Unveils ‘Holiday 2013’ Paper Cup Designs

It is known that when coffee giant Starbucks starts using red paper cups—rather than its de rigueur white paper cups—Christmas is round the corner. For this year’s holiday season, the coffee company has unveiled new designs for its red paper cups. Devoid of the iconic snowmen, ice skaters and other characters, the new ‘Starbucks Holiday […]

Liberation Nuts ‘Mixes It Up’ For Christmas At Oxfam

Liberation Nuts ‘Mixes It Up’ For Christmas At Oxfam

Liberation Foods, the UK’s first Fairtrade and farmer owned Nut Company, is launching its first seasonal range of snacks into 252 Oxfam shops nationwide from 21st October 2013. Following the successful launch of two new product lines during the summer, coupled with a recent refreshed brand identity, Liberation’s two new winter snacking products include: Fairtrade […]

A Rocking Good Christmas

A Rocking Good Christmas

When it comes to Christmas, only the finest food and drink will do. Treat friends and family to the latest organic cordials and squashes from Rocks Drinks, which make great gift choices and perfect accompaniments to festive food or can simply be enjoyed during the celebrations. A little sophistication is a must at Christmas meal-times […]

Diageo in £17m Festive Drive to ‘Reset’ Spirits Brands in the UK

Diageo in £17m Festive Drive to ‘Reset’ Spirits Brands in the UK

Diageo is returning Johnnie Walker to UK TV screens for the first time in 50 years this Christmas as part of a multimillion marketing strategy to encourage younger drinkers to extend brands such as Baileys and Smirnoff to new drinking occasions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1xD9d71mMU&feature=youtu.be The drinks maker is unifying upcoming campaigns for top spirits brands Smirnoff, Baileys […]

Morrisons Fires Starting Gun on Christmas Advertising With New Campaign

Morrisons Fires Starting Gun on Christmas Advertising With New Campaign

Morrisons is hoping to steal a march on its rivals in the run-up to Christmas with a new marketing campaign aimed at boosting customer loyalty in the run-up to the crucial festive trading period. The ads, which are appearing in newspapers and on TV, see the return of the supermarket’s ‘Big Christmas Bonus’ strapline, offering […]

Festive facts from Mintel for Christmas

As the final countdown to the festive season begins, Mintel gets into the holiday spirit with a variety of festive stats and figures covering the food and drink, health, alcohol, shopping, household and personal care sectors. Food, Spirits and Baking Habits What’s your Christmas tipple? Over a third (36%) of consumers who drink dark spirits […]

Sainsbury’s gear up for the festive frenzy

More than 2,000 of Sainsbury's corporate office workers from all over the UK, will help out their colleagues in their various stores over the busy festive period.

Sainsbury’s gear up for the festive frenzy

Everyone from store support centers, including board members and directors, will be rolling up their sleeves to help keep the shelves fully stocked, as the supermarket gears up for its busiest trading days of the year – Friday 21 to Monday 24 December. The company’s suppliers are also joining in. Over 300 people from 107 […]

Coca Cola Designated Driver Campaign Calls For A Safe And Happy Christmas

Coca Cola Designated Driver Campaign Calls For A Safe And Happy Christmas

Rewarding responsible drivers with free drinks over the festive period! The popular Designated Driver campaign from Coca‑Cola Great Britain is back, helping reward responsible drivers with free drinks during the festive period. Now in its fifth successful year, the initiative offers consumers a buy-one-get-one free across Coca‑Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero during the festive period. This will be supported […]