Timberland’s living walls have their own irrigation system VF, the owner of iconic brands including The North Face, Vans and Timberland, is entering another period of big transformation as it looks to lead the charge through purpose-led design and sustainable innovation. The manifestation of this can be seen in its new Axtell Soho retail space in London, which opened earlier […]
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High street baker Greggs has made a name for itself recently as a purveyor of not just savoury pastries, but also cheeky PR stunts and good-humoured, self-deprecating marketing. The clear results these have achieved – both in Greggs’ brand metrics and its financial figures – have seen it justly shortlisted for Brand of the Year by the Marketing Week Masters […]
The Festival of Marketing is returning to Tobacco Dock on 10 and 11 October with a line-up that includes Marketing Week columnists Thomas Barta, Helen Edwards and Mark Ritson, as well as marketers from brands including Sainsbury’s, Diageo, KFC and TSB. The agenda, which is now live, features more than 100 speakers from the world of marketing and beyond across […]
Wasabi is one of the new suppliers brought into Sainsbury’s via the Future Brands team. In a bid to source the next exciting challenger brands from the UK and beyond, Sainsbury’s decided it needed a dedicated team to chase innovation. Established in April 2018, Future Brands nurtures new brands in categories from grocery and drinks to cosmetics and gifting, offering […]
In this latest video looking back at 50 years of Effies case studies, Mark Ritson explains how market research into beauty industry stereotypes and a balance between long- and short-term investment led to Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ campaign and a sales boost. Dove’s ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ is one of the most celebrated examples of brand purpose over the past two […]
A food fight broke out on Twitter in the middle of February. It wasn’t over the sandwichiness of a hot dog or the right way to eat a slice of pizza, but instead was spurred on by a tweet from the Los Angeles Times’ Food section. The paperhad just released its “official fast food French fry rankings” and the food […]
While a marketer’s job is varied, ultimately the end-goal is to find profitable customers. As a marketer, people are paying you for the firm’s most important job (next to innovation): finding customers – at the lowest possible cost. Finding customers is an art and a craft. The art is your work’s beauty: the creative, the intuitive. The truth is, marketing […]
Like many manufacturers of fizzy drinks and confectionery, Cadbury has been under the microscope as the UK’s biggest chocolate brand ever since the government introduced its ‘sugar tax’ in 2018. That followed on from a challenge by Public Health England the year before for the food industry to reduce sugar levels by one fifth by 2020. Cadbury’s response was to […]
We all know the customer journey is fundamental to encouraging consumers to become customers, and then persuading them to become loyal repeat purchasers. But it’s no longer enough just to have a smooth buying experience at the point of sale. The proliferation of digital platforms, devices and sources of information means that consumers can reach brands from almost any direction […]