Walkers chief to take top PepsiCo marketing post
30 Oct 2003 | by Emily Rogers
PepsiCo UK has picked Walkers vice-president of marketing Neil Campbell for its top job, one of the most powerful in UK food and drink marketing.
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PepsiCo UK is to print nutritional advice to parents on packs of Walkers crisps as part of a revamp of the UK's biggest FMCG brand.
PepsiCo UK has picked Walkers vice-president of marketing Neil Campbell for its top job, one of the most powerful in UK food and drink marketing.
LONDON - Golden Wonder makes fun of best-selling rival Walkers and its decision to sell cheese and onion crisps in blue packets in a new advertising campaign, which pushes the brand's down-to-earth qualities.
Walkers Snacks is offering consumers the chance to win 17 million free Chinese or Indian meals through packets of Walkers' standard and Max crisps. The eight-week promotion will be supported by a 2.5m Bollywood-themed TV campaign by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, starring Gary Lineker.
Walkers Snacks has appointed Carol Garbutt marketing director of its flagship crisps range, named last week in Marketing as the UK's biggest brand.
Walker's crisps are the nation's favourite brand, despite continuing pressures on consumers to watch their diet.
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LONDON - Walkers crisps are the nation's favourite brand, despite continuing pressures on consumers to watch their diet.
Walkers Snacks' top crisps marketer, Mike Munro, has returned to a senior marketing role in Chicago after finishing his secondment from US parent company Frito-Lay.
Walkers Crisps is celebrating Leicester City Football Club's return to the Premiership by launching a limited edition flavour, Walkers Leicester's Cheese Chive. They feature first-team players Muzzy Izzet and Jordan Stewart on the pack and will be on sale in the Leicestershire area.
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