IRI Shopper Insights Highlight Growth in Popularity of Specialist Stores Over Mass Market

IRI Shopper Insights Highlight Growth in Popularity of Specialist Stores Over Mass Market

A European Shopper Insights Report conducted by IRI, the big data and technology expert for consumer industries, shows that the influence and importance of emerging specialist retail channels, like drug stores, pharmacies and make-up stores, is growing. The study of 2,600 consumers across seven European countries reveals that more than a third (39%) of shoppers […]

Bounce launch new Protein Energy Bites

Bounce launch new Protein Energy Bites

Having worked with the Bounce brand for six years, Biles Hendry was asked to develop packaging for their newest innovation: Bounce Protein Energy Bites. Famous for its Energy Balls, the brand was an early pioneer in the protein energy snack market, which has exploded over the last few years as a healthy and sustaining alternative […]

Tesco Rebrands Healthy Living Range

Tesco Rebrands Healthy Living Range

Tesco is overhauling its ranges of healthy foods, as it targets consumers looking to get into shape as part of their New Year’s resolutions. A new range, called Tesco Healthy Living, will replace Tesco Light Choices and Tesco Eat Live Enjoy, as the supermarket aims to offer a “more appealing” way to help customers control […]

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 […]

Sainsbury’s Censured Over Claims Consumers Need Not Shop Around

Sainsbury’s Censured Over Claims Consumers Need Not Shop Around

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, […]

Titchmarsh Celebrates ‘Brilliantly British Apples’ in Waitrose Spot

Titchmarsh Celebrates ‘Brilliantly British Apples’ in Waitrose Spot

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 […]

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 […]