21 Apr 2009
LONDON - Dan Ng, head of planning at DDB London, reviews the B&Q commercial which had the 3rd...advertising rather than lowering prices for struggling customers. B Q has responded with a TV campaign ...
, who is extolling the virtues of B Q's mix-and-match bathroom suites. The content of the ad certainly ...
kind you might find in-store. This ad has lost some of the warmth and humour of previous work, edging B ...
18 Jan 2011
| by Karen Jackson
Too many brands are still outsourcing call centre services without making sure that the level of service such providers offer matches the brand's objectives with customers' expectations, writes CPM UK's Karen Jackson
23 Jun 2009
| by David Benady
consqeuence is that B2B marketers are being forced to re-examine their role and find new ways of emphasising ...
seem sensible, but if the result is losing customers, it's a flawed strategy. B2B marketers play a ...
are worth hanging on to.This raises the question as to how B2B marketers can best demonstrate ...
07 Jun 2011
shortlisted for B2B marketing: Aviva, You are the big picture; Barclaycard, SME payment acceptance programme ...
03 Jun 2009
| by Becky Wilkerson
LONDON - The late spring sunshine has been good news for B&Q's parent company Kingfisher..... B Q's retail profit doubled to 58m in the 13 weeks to May 2; group sales were up 9.6% to 2.6bn. ...
03 Dec 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - Retailer B&Q has reported a sales increase, crediting a renewed interest in D&Y and better...to November in comparison with 2008. Overall, B Q reported retails profits were up by 45% to 43m. Kingfisher, the company which owns B Q, reported group retail profits of 227m, a rise of just under 29% ...
04 Aug 2011
| by Rachel Barnes
clear cut. B Q's latest results show that its like-for-like sales slumped 6.7% in the 11 weeks to 16 July.
Ian Cheshire, group chief executive of B Q parent Kingfisher, has said: 'These are testing times for retailers, particularly in the UK.' He's not kidding. B Q's rival Focus DIY fell ...
06 Apr 2009
| by Joe Thomas
LONDON - B&Q will launch a new campaign tonight, featuring 15 of the retailer's employees known...The campaign, which appears across the ITV regions, will will run throughout April and is supported by a series of 20 ads in the national and regional press as well as digital outdoor ads. B Q ...
that they feel they can trust and B Q has staff who are able to provide 'confidence and reassurance'. The UK ...
13 Jan 2009
| by Miranda Fitzgerald
LONDON - B&Q is ending its sponsorship with the British Olympic Association (BOA) after three...Since 2004, the DIY chain has leveraged its tie-up through Team B Q', a mix of Olympians ...
to work around training and competition schedules. B Q had been expected to renew the deal in the run-up to London 2012. Jacqueline Caston, external relations manager at B Q, said: We enjoyed great internal ...
23 Dec 2008
| by Ed Kemp
LONDON - B&Q marketing and customer proposition director Jo Kenrick has left the DIY retailer after...the only woman on the B Q board. Prior to joining B Q Kenrick worked at, Camelot, Wilson Connelly, Asda ...
the effectiveness of B Q's advertising through the reintroduction of the staffer adverts and successfully negotiated ...
week.' Rob Bacon will now join the B Q board as customer employee brand director from his current ...