12 Dec 2008
Campaign: Netto - Tackling the stigma
Client: Netto
PR team: Public PR
Timescale: August 2007 to August 2008
Budget: Undisclosed, but estimated at around £50,000
The discount supermarket Netto's days of unexciting stores stocked with
unfamiliar European products are gone, so the company asked...
21 Nov 2008
Dore has been named M&S' head of corporate PR on an interim basis. He is
on a 13-month contract, covering for Clair Foster who is on maternity
leave. Dore will be responsible for the management of all of the retailer's
financial and corporate media and its seven-strong corporate PR
team. He will report directly ...
14 Nov 2008
With the British Retail Consortium reporting this week that UK retail sales saw their first monthly...Faulkner - Press officer, branches and retail development AGENCIES Rain Communications Fashion, advice ...
14 Nov 2008
Campaign: Jigsaw appoints a new creative director
Client: Jigsaw
PR team: Mission Media
Timescale: July-August 2008
Budget: c. £30,000
High street fashion chain Jigsaw does not do any print or broadcast
advertising, instead relying on PR. In July it called in Mission Media
to help the in-house...
07 Nov 2008
| by Alec Mattinson
Retailers remain committed to promoting ethical issues, despite new financial results suggesting...A Time/Populus survey last week found that Primark was seen as Britain's
least ethical clothing retailer following a Panorama expose four months
ago. Marks & Spencer was 'most ethical' ahead of George ...
that the clothing
retailer with the worst reputation on the high street is posting the
best results to show that CSR ...
17 Oct 2008
| by Alec Mattinson
Retailers have been warned that 'testosterone-powered PR will not work' as many chains now face..., but
it is also in the vested interest of retailers to encourage high-street
spending. There is a gulf between ...
conditions. Retailers need to get
smarter with their money and trim spend while sticking to the principles ...
12 Sep 2008
Protesters: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Location: Lush's Regent Street store
Target: Retailers and restaurants
Date: 3 September
- What Happened? Performance artist Alice Newstead ...
global campaign to ask retailers and restaurants to stop selling shark
produce. Lush also handed out ...
18 Jul 2008
Furniture retailer MFI has switched its entire PR function to Siren PR after an exhaustive search....The London firm will serve as MFI's press office, as well as carrying
out CSR work, issues support and brand building for the retail giant.
Siren has been briefed to increase the chain's share of voice in the
consumer press. This strategy comes after a rocky few years for the furniture chain.
Parent company ...
04 Jul 2008
High street retailer House of Fraser has brought on board its first consumer PR support 'to
25 Apr 2008
CONSUMER: Australian retail group Westfield has brought in WPR to handle consumer PR for Westfield