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I found some new angles on the importance of visual brand properties in this Ad Age article by Laura Ries. She calls visual properties such as logos "visual hammers" that…

I enjoyed reading Richard Reed, one of innocent's founders, talking about what he's learnt about business. I met him briefly at the innnocent AGM, and the "I Know" column in…

Four years I posted on "brand stretch madness" from Aston Martin: the over-priced and under-powered Cygnet city car. I predicted it would be a horrible flop, and this has indeed…

I've just finished reading the new book by my INSEAD marketing professor, Niraj Dawar: Tilt: Shifting your strategy downstream from products to customers. You can order it here. At first…

Interesting to see the first Starbucks train leave the station in Switzerland on November 21st on a route running from Geneva Airport to St. Gallen, as reported here.Thanks to German…

Sales of Aga cast iron cookers are reported as growing again, up 15% and at the highest level since 2005/06. This comes after several difficult years of people cutting back…

Guest blog by Prasad Narasimhan, brandgym Managing Partner for Asia, based in Bangalore. In an earlier blog, I talked about how brands can create deeper relationships with consumers by exploring three…

An intriguing collaboration between two of my favourite brands caught my eye this week. The first brand in this new collaboration is Fifty Three's Paper, a beautifully designed iPad app…

Guest blog by Prasad Narasimhan, brandgym Managing Partner for Asia, based in Bangalore. The problem of sameness is still endemic in several categories, with a cotinued over-reliance on emotional "sizzle". The…

John Lewis' new Xmas ad is the most talked about TV commercial of the year, based on extensive research in the Taylor family household. The cartoon ad features a hare…