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Last year I posted on Pepsico's launch of Tropicana Smoothies and simultaneous price cut on PJ Smoothies, in an attempt to take the latter more "mainstream" (a polite word for…

Bit of fun for Friday.Hot on the heels on the post about Veet's post-Bush ad, comes one on Philips for their portable power charge. Thanks to brandgym blog reader Sheila…

Seems the 1st brandgym blog Hit 'n Miss prediction for 2009 my be coming true. Heinz are putting the gun to their chilled Farmer's Market soup, according to an article…

Cadbury's gorilla ad created a whole lot of hoo-ha in 2008/09. And 10million views on You Tube. I always thought most viewers missed the idea behind the ad: the anticipation…

Thanks to Bongani from SAB Miller in J'burg for sharing this inspired bit of media placement with me (for non-UK readers, "bush" refers to a patch of hair 🙂 )…

The T-Mobile UK team have a big challenge. How to cut through when you're the number 4 brand, up against 3 bigger competitors who are out-spending you (O2, Vodafone, Orange),…

I do like a good quote. Always good to spice up a presentation or speech.Here are a few corkers I found on leadershipnow.com when looking for a quote to put…

I posted last year on the demise of roadside eaterie, Little Chef, after in went into administration. I asked the question, "Shouldn't some brands just die?". The brand was well…

As Kermit the frog used to say, " Its hard being green'. This is especially true in tough times, when the temptation is to leave green marketing initiatives on the…