Innocent’s sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics and a focus on social media and experiential marketing helped the smoothie maker register record revenue in 2012. The brand’s holding company Fresh Trading Limited posted a turnover – the value of the goods sold to retailers – of £206.64m in 2012, up from £162.67 in 2011, according […]
Grant’s whisky has appointed Inferno to its advertising account after a contested pitch. Inferno won the account after a final shootout against VCCP. BSUR, Fred & Farid and Ogilvy & Mather also pitched. It is understood that although there was no current incumbent on the account, Grant’s has previously worked with My Agency and Geronimo. […]
Waitrose has brought back its ambassador Alan Titchmarsh for a new TV campaign by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, promoting British apples. In the 40-second ad, which launches tonight, gardening personality Titchmarsh tells the story of “the brilliantly British apples” on sale at Waitrose. The film opens on scenes of rainy fields. Titchmarsh explains in a voiceover […]
Pernod Ricard, the owner of Absolut Vodka and Malibu, has awarded its UK media planning and buying business to Havas Media after a final contest against the incumbent, Vizeum. Goodstuff Communications was involved at an earlier stage of the process. Havas Media had handled the business before Vizeum’s appointment in 2006. A spokesman for the […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsENMy2hSE McDonald’s is launching a range of value breakfast products called the “Breakfast Snack Wraps”. The brand is introducing three new breakfast options: the sausage and egg Snack Wrap; the bacon and egg Snack Wrap and the egg and cheese Snack Wrap, supported by a new marketing campaign. The campaign, created by Leo Burnett, humorously […]
Mikado, the biscuit brand owned by Mondelez International, is relaunching across Europe with an idiosyncratic first campaign from its new creative agency, Fallon London. The campaign, launching in Germany and including TV, print and digital, hinges around a central film introducing a male character who visits a casino. He arrives by parachute and enters the […]
To celebrate the upcoming launch of Android’s latest operating system ‘Kit Kat’, the chocolate company—together with ad agency JWT Amsterdam—launched a campaign, in which they gave away free Nexus 7 tablets to people—for simply taking a break. In the campaign, titled ‘KITKAT – Have a seat’, they installed special outdoor ads at various locations in […]
Ribena and Lucozade have been sold to Suntory Beverage & Food for £1.3bn — the price of 2.3 billion cartons of the blackcurrant drink. GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, put the drinks up for sale in February as part of chief executive Sir Andrew Witty’s push on healthcare brands and vaccines. Private equity firms including Blackstone and […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8BRLP0aNMI Diageo is pumping £34 million into the marketing of its Guinness brand over the next 12 months as part of a plan to boost its “quality” association. The investment drive will be spearheaded by a new TV campaign, created by AMV BBDO, which will focus on the surge of the Guinness pint. In echoes […]
Unilever-owned snack Pot Noodle has had a post on its Facebook page banned for being “crass and degrading” towards women. The Advertising Standards Authority received two types of complaints about three Piri Piri Pot Noodles ads that appeared on the Pot Noodle Facebook page. It upheld one of the complaints for one of the ads, […]