With the company facing £385 million of debts, just after 4.30pm on 10th December Woolworths’ head office sent an email to the managers of all its 815 stores announcing that no buyer had recognised the wonder of the Woolies brand. Today stores open with signs printed at the last minute reading:“closing down sale”.
Following the President’s plea for the House of Representatives to vote for a $700-billion Wall Street bailout plan, marketers have suggested that the President should have concentrated on the word “rescue” rather than being seen to offer a “bailout”.
Barely a year has passed since ‘Olymlogogate’: the blot on the branding landscape forever known as the ‘UK 2012’ logo. Now the government has done it again. Allegedly the Office of Government Commerce spent twelve months with their design team at FHD agency going over the fine details of their new logo. [...]
Back in 1935 the members of the Press were invited by an enthusiastic British entrepreneur called Bill Lyons to witness a new kind of automobile design - The Swallow Sidecar’s Jaguar. Similar in shape to a Bentley it was elegance, style and power personified into an extraordinary design that comes around once in a lifetime.
As [...]
A survey of 74,000 grocery stores conducted by Talking Retail in association with global market research company Nielsen, has ranked Coca-Cola as the number one retail grocery brand in the country with sales totalling a staggering £959.9 million in 2007.
Second place went to baker Warbrtons with sales of £609.5 million Walkers crisps took third place [...]
Now you too can have that scomber scombrus look, complete with thick black bags under your eyes; without the inconvenience of being beaten up or taking expensive drugs. Pop diva, Amy Winehouse is planning her own range of clothes and makeup. Included will be useful can of hairspray (not to be sniffed at) perfume and [...]