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BT's decision to change kill off the two sub-brands it used for Wi-Fi is a good example of brand focus. Up to now, BT used "BT Fon" for the network…

Just read a nice presentation on using "ritualising your brand*, from Jon Howard of Quiet Storm, via slideshare.  Rituals can be a powerful form of brand property to use in…

Helen Edward's column in Marketing really is a great read. In a recent column (subscription needed) she complained that the majority of prizes at The Marketing Society Awards were for…

Guest post by Anne Charbonneau, our Managing Partner in Amsterdam. Very inspiring interview with Unilever's CEO Paul Polman in this month's HBR (Subscription needed). Polmans’s goal? To double corporate revenue…

Amongst the retail doom and gloom Majestic Wine are a notable success. They recently reported annual like-for-like sales up 2.6%, and pre-tax profits up 15% (Subscription needed).  And this in…

Britain have won an amazing seven out of 10 track cycling gold medals in London. One of the secrets of this success is an approach called "marginal gains": accumulating small…

I learnt about how Dr Dre's Beats headphones had beaten the ban on 2012 "ambush marketing", via another bit of cartoon genius from Tom Fishburne here. Only this morning I…

Just back from a wonderful exhibition on the work of designer Thomas Heatherwick and his team at the V&A in London. Its on till Sep 30th, so do pop in…

Interesting to see the Lays brand in the US rolling out the Do Us a Flavour activation, which started in the UK in 2008 on the Walkers brand. Note how…