04 Oct 2010
| by Mark Banham
Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has dropped a campaign featuring England striker and brand ambassador...The campaign was due to place the Manchester United football player's image on thousands of bottles and cans of Coke Zero, the brand's no-sugar variant.
Coca-Cola today confirmed the promotion ...
-Cola brand Powerade.
In the advertising campaign, a shirtless Rooney, fuelled by Powerade, took on a ...
16 Aug 2010
| by Gemma Charles
Under the plans, the Heineken UK-owned lager brand will commission the production of one ...
the brand plans to recommission.
She said the drive would give the brand credibility among its target ...
to build on Foster s title sponsorship of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Channel 4 comedy.
The lager ...
11 Aug 2010
| by Gemma Charles
to get brands to fund the anti-obesity campaign Change4Life....brands should make financial contributions to the Change4Life campaign and he dangled the carrot for a ...
11 May 2010
| by Helen Edwards
Seeking to make sense of Tesco's brand extension into house-building, and perhaps to allay a ...
. It was the original brand extension pioneer, branching out, like Tesco, from grocery retail beginnings. How does that work, both then and now? How can brands be so elastic? Is there something about putting food ...
05 May 2010
| by Helen Edwards
Brands seeking to challenge a 'big two' need to find strategies that will build loyalty...It's one of marketing's tougher challenges. You're the number-three brand in an established market, with a fairly steady 20% share. The big two play tag for brand leadership, with shares in the high 30s. Some tiddlers and niche brands nibble away at the market edges. You're charged with achieving strong ...
05 May 2010
| by Joe Thomas
to avoid alcohol. Although launching in the off-trade a few years later, the brand's heartland still lies ...
brands. Moreover, these often position themselves as healthier, with fewer or no additives. Pub chain ...
this is enough to stop the assault of smaller, quirky brands is debatable, but it does show Britvic acknowledges ...
28 Apr 2010
| by Helen Edwards
The emotional bonding that is crucial to any brand's success cannot be built using metrics alone....The BrandZ top 100 is one of those annual rankings that hit brand owners whether they like ...
Optimor feels compelled to give them catchy, trademarked names: Brand Signature, Presence, Bonding ...
metrics and the beguiling precision of those bar-grids can make you think you're up there in the brand ...
27 Apr 2010
| by Joe Thomas
LONDON - Unofficial brands should take care when running football-based pushes this summer....not appear to have put a stop to ambush marketing. It is no surprise that brands outside the list ...
with football through its brand ambassadors including Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba ...
to be a coincidence. Mars, meanwhile, offers a prime example of a brand that was extremely successful ...
27 Apr 2010
| by John Reynolds
Some brands spend years, and small fortunes, on new product development. The approach of Jonathan ...
is entirely in keeping with the Warburtons brand - the 134-year-old, family-run, no-nonsense Northern bakery. It is slightly at odds with reality, however - Warburtons is now the second-biggest grocery brand in the country ...
27 Apr 2010
| by David Tiltman
of Unilever's biggest global brands are involved, with the goal of finding content that can run in multiple ...
experiments in this area, which used single brands in single markets. Last year, for example, it dropped Lowe ...
Factor. Of course, squeezing creative costs in this way may not go down well with a brand's creative ...