Walkers plans premium crisp line Redsky
09 Dec 2008 | by Gemma Charles
LONDON - Walkers is planning a major assault on Kettle Chips with the launch of an upmarket crisp brand, called Redsky, next year.
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LONDON - Diageo's former global brands director of malts and Scotch heritage, Charles Allen, has joined Walkers as marketing director of the snack brand's sharing portfolio.
LONDON - Walkers is planning a major assault on Kettle Chips with the launch of an upmarket crisp brand, called Redsky, next year.
LONDON - Walkers has had more than 1.1m entries and substantial web visits for its 'Do Us A Flavour' competition, asking the public to suggest a new crisp flavour for a £50,000 prize and 1% share of future royalties.
LONDON - Logan Wilmont, executive creative director of Draftfcb, reviews the Walkers TV commercial 'Suggest a flavour', which had the highest recall with the public in the weekly Adwatch ranking for 17 September.
LONDON - Walkers Snacks is to launch an interactive sales promotion drive to support its 'Do us a flavour' campaign, which gives consumers a chance to invent a crisp variant.
LONDON - AMV BBDO has released its latest Gary Lineker ad for Walkers, triggering the brand's search for a new flavour of crisp.
LONDON - Walkers crisps is to drop sport pundit Gary Lineker as the face of the brand, bringing to an end a 13-year association.
LONDON - Walkers is launching an on-pack promotion aimed at celebrating Britain by offering consumers money off everything the UK has to offer - from theme parks to pub lunches.
LONDON - Walkers has delisted its children's crisp brand Potato Heads as it refocuses its healthy snacking portfolio.
LONDON - Walkers Crisps has fallen foul of the washout British summer and has pulled its latest ad campaign amid fears it would offend people affected by the floods.
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