Archive for February, 2007
Posted Wednesday 28, February 2007 by: JJG

This week in the UAE HRH Charles may have bitten off more than he could chew when making off-cuff remarks about McDonalds and its effects on diabetes. Some cynics have wondered if there was some kind of subtle ulterior motive behind his outburst - perhaps to do with pushing the organic produce from the [...]

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Posted Thursday 15, February 2007 by: JJG

It seems that just about everyone nowadays in on a mission to get rid of the odd ‘spare tyre’. Now even Bibendum, the formal name for one of branding’s best loved characters - The Michelin Man is also slimming down.Bibendum was devised in 1888 when Andre Michelin commissioned the creation of the plump figure [...]

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Posted Thursday 8, February 2007 by: JJG

Given the right guidance, Norfolk turkey producer Bernard Matthews - currently ranked as the UK’s 12th biggest food brand, with 2006 sales being worth between 300 -305 million pounds, (Source: TNS World Panel w/e/ April 2006) can save and enhance their brand reputation in the competitive poultry market. (The latest published figures for frozen [...]

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 At the beginning of February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the first of three key reports due to come out on the effects of global warming. The influential group of scientists concluded that Global climate change is “very likely” to have a human cause.Ever since I can remember, brands have promised [...]

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