It occured to me in discussions with a client yesterday that social media, that big scary/cool exciting world (depending how far along you are with embracing it for your brand), is currently the brand equivalent of discovering alcohol as a teenager. It makes you feel like you are the coolest dancer at the party. It’s not until much much…
Another great evening with the Marketing Society last night; this time an audience with Sir Terry Leahy, the maestro of Tesco’s phenomenal success, who started out as a Tesco marketer and worked his way up to the top. It’s so easy to take Tesco for granted, but in the 14 years of his reign as CEO, he took it…
Easyjet is in the news again this week – this time, for painting it’s aircraft (8, as a trial) with a nanopolymer coating that reduces friction and therefore fuel use. If it works on the whole fleet, it would reduce fuel bills by up to 2% – and given 40% of easyJet’s costs are fuel, this is no small…
This month, my awards for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, through a responsible marketing lens, go to the following brands for their current TV campaigns GOOD award goes to HEINZ beans, for their fabulous new fridge pack – a resealable tub of beans that is 1kg (2.5 tins) but lasts up to 5 days once opened. Their…
The last month I’ve seen so many articles and news items on green/sustainable claims – even the One Show (hardly the cutting edge of journalism) got in on the act last week and did a spot on greenclaims in household cleaners and how misleading and unregulated they are. The comparison was drawn with Fairtrade, which everyone understands and which…
Just wanted to round up 3 things that have caught my eye in the last month – which between them I think illustrate the spectrum of effort that brands can make on the sustainability front: – On the being marginally less bad, ‘every little helps’ end, step forward Cadbury’s: On-pack claim informing about reduction in packaging taking lorries off…
Congratulations to the Ecology Building Society! They’ve been winning awards left right and centre for the hard work they do in creating genuinely ethical savings products – Ethical Consumer Magaxine’s ‘best buy’ 2009, and What Mortgage’s ‘best environmental lender’ awards and even ‘Mortgage Finance Gazette’s’ ‘best green lender’ award. Its because they are very strict on who they lend…
So finally Stella Artois and Currys meet in more than just a late night takeaway melange…. they are both brands that are communicating recycling as part of their advertising: – Stella’s outdoor campaign focussing on the recycled material content of the cans and box packaging, in a stylish ‘Stella’ manner that touches on nostalgia of where the aluminium or…
An interesting conversation today with a consumer insight specialist (thanks Mercedes) raised an issue I’ve wondered about before, but only from the brand side – how does one measure ‘green-ness’.What I learnedwas that in fact this is a highly topical consumer issue, with brands currently dividing into 3 camps in their consumer communication: 1. Go the 100% route –…
You’d think that you couldn’t get further from heavy issues like climate change than in the high volume, image driven beer category. Yet it may be one of the first categories to experience real ‘brand risk’ from climate change. New Scientist reports this week that the Saaz hops that is the basis for pilsner lagers such as Pilsner Urquell,…
In a world of decaying trust, where…
A fascinating panel discussion of experienced Chairmen…
