Love them or hate them, brussels sprouts are an inescapable fact of a good old-fashioned British Christmas – but what would you do if you were faced with 4,000 of them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93xW3-HPOv0 That’s what happened when Artem SFX, an award-winning physical special effects company, were recently asked to help bring to life the new Christmas […]
Drinks giant Diageo has offered to sell most of its Whyte & Mackay business to address regulators’ concerns over competition in the blended Scotch whisky market. The offer, made to the Office of Fair Trading, followed Diageo’s purchase of a 25% stake in Indian company United Spirits, which owns Whyte & Mackay. The deal prompted […]
McCain has unveiled a potato scented taxi, which will offer free rides for five minutes – the time it takes to microwave a McCain Ready Baked Jackets potato. The taxi will travel through London, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Leeds and Bristol, as part of a £8.4m marketing campaign. The specially designed ‘Jacket Taxi’ emits the warm […]
John Smith’s Extra Smooth, one of UK’s favourite ale, is ‘upping the ante’ with the launch of a new creative campaign that harnesses the brand’s links to horseracing and the smooth, No Nonsense credentials for which the beer is famous. The year-round press and radio campaign, which will embrace brand ads and racing advertorials, will […]
A new branding design created by Sketch Bureau‘s Fraser Reynolds, is to be launched by Irish cider brand Magners across all its products to reinforce its Irish heritage and give greater stand-out at the bar. It reintroduces the traditional green associated with the brand when it first launched in the UK in 2005 and brings […]
French spirits maker Moët & Chandon is using a new approach to sell its Champagne, putting its bottles behind glass in a vending machine. The vending machine is part of the holiday gift section at British department store Selfridges, and dispenses mini bottles of Moët & Chandon. By putting its product in such an ordinary […]
Encourage your kids to conjure up some tasty winter treats from the new free Cooking with Kids Christmas App from Great British Chefs, the award-winning recipe site, and Tesco, launching in mid-November. With a total of 105 exciting Christmas and Winter recipes, all created by Britain’s finest chefs, the app is designed to give parents […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ticco Foods Limited, one of the UK’s leading specialist foodservice groups, has announced an on-going exclusive distribution agreement with Your Tapas Company, a modern Spanish gourmet Tapas manufacturer located in Ribadumia, Galicia, North West Spain. Known as ‘Yatecomere’ in their native Spain, Your Tapas Company specialise in manufacturing innovative products for the food service industry […]