Safeway Inc. announced the launch of its Help Us End Hunger (Every Bag Counts) food drive to help make the holidays brighter for people who rely on the assistance of food banks. The company is joining with customers, Kraft, local food banks and broadcast partners to collect food donations at Safeway stores through Christmas. To […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7-hDwXnos Marks and Spencer has unveiled its food ad for Christmas, urging the public to ‘make Christmas delicious’. This is the first of four Christmas food ads set to roll out for the retailer, featuring products such as its Ultimate Enchanted Forest Cake. Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, executive director of marketing and development at M&S, said: “This […]
Morrison’s is reportedly set to push its fresh food offering as a point of difference from the other big four supermarkets when it finally unveils its e-commerce model later this week. The retailer is the last of the Big Four supermarkets – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrison’s – to launch an e-commerce operation. Its delivery […]
Greenvale, the UK’s leading supplier of fresh potatoes, has secured two new listings through Ocado and Amazon for its branded product, GreenVale Farm Fresh potatoes, so consumers can now order them on line as well as buy them off the shelf at Tesco and Booths. Marketed as ‘great tasting all rounder potatoes’, GreenVale Farm Fresh […]
South Australia’s Coopers Ale has won the Best Marketed Beer award at the Australian Liquor Industry Awards, with the brewers subsequently thanking their supporters via Facebook. The award is given to “the beer or cider brand that has received the most effective promotional support including POS, advertising campaigns and trade incentives.” Coopers were up against […]
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 […]
Legendary biscuit brand Tim Tam has launched a campaign for its new Chocolicious Bites with a creative designed by DDB and executed by MEC and Social Ally. It focuses on an interactive consumer poll utilising real-time technology, offering fans a year’s supply of Tim Tams. The campaign launches online via Facebook. “Real-time communications is the […]
Pernod Ricard has launched its first ecommerce hub in the UK to capitalise on returning customer spend across the region, a move that follows similar recent announcements from rivals Diageo and AB InBev. Drinks maker unveils first UK online store in time for key Christmas trading period. The Sipstor, dubbed an online “drinks boutique” by […]
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a TV ad for Sainsbury’s after ruling it misleadingly told consumers they need not shop around at Tesco and Asda for the best branded deals. The ad, promoting Sainsbury’s Brand Match money-back guarantee, depicted customers shopping, with the TV screen split into three and a section each representing Sainsbury’s, […]
Tesco is cutting the buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) promotions on its bagged salads after finding that 68% of them end up being wasted by consumers. The supermarket said the move is a first in response to its own research into food waste, which tracked 25 of its bestselling products to better understand where food waste occurs from […]