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April 2013 saw the publication of the annual Brand Finance Global top 50 Cosmetics Brands with Clearasil entering for the first time (ranked 32), thanks to continued brand innovation and its growing popularity in developing markets.
RB’s Clearasil range is one of the UK’s best-known young skincare brand and has been a trusted choice by young people to help combat spots and blemishes for over 50 years. The range has been the subject of innovation and investment particularly since Reckitt Benckiser acquired the brand in 2006.
Business Consort are offering theMarketingblog's readers a FREE 21-page social media guide to help you start generating leads and revenue from your social media efforts.
TheMarketingblog is pleased to announce a partnership with Business Consort - The Digital & Social Media Academy he Digital & Social Media Academy www.thesocialmediaacademy.org is one of the world leading training organisations and is accredited by The Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Director and Digital Specialist Dawn McGruer FRSA – established the business back in 2005 and has since been invited to become a Fellow of the RSA – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in 1754. This invite comes as recognition of her expertise in the field of social media marketing and her work to raise awareness of the advantages of social media to business owners.
Tel: 0800 334 5784 email: dawn@thesocialmediaacademy.org or dawn@businessconsort.com [more…]
Revealed: The Top 10 Strangest Sleeping Spots
To celebrate the end of this year’s National Bed Month, the innovative mattress brand, Octaspring, has commissioned a survey polling 3,000 UK residents, looking into the strangest and most wacky places people have slept.
Whilst many people know the importance of getting a good night’s sleep, over a third of those surveyed (35%) admit to sleeping in a strange and uncomfortable place – perhaps reinforcing the fact that the majority of the UK (51%), struggle to get a good night’s sleep, thus, leaving the British notorious as a ‘nation of insomniacs’!*
SPAR UK and Harvest Energy are delighted to announce the launch of a new branded forecourt concept, designed to help convenience retailers stand up to the multiples and compete against the oil companies.
The exciting collaboration will offer progressive independent retailers an entire SPAR branded petrol filling station option.
This new alliance offers retailers and consumers a host of benefits, including access to shop supply and entire forecourt branding from SPAR, as well as access to Harvest Energy fuel supply. [more…]
Get your own sneak preview of Tesco, Fifty Shades of Grey, Sainsburys, Trinity Leeds, Ryanair,Chelsea F.C., Abbey Telecom,Vaseline, Mobile Retail Summit, Justin King, Search Marketing Expo. [more…]
Cold calling people subscribed to the Telephone Preference Service is not allowed without consent. A Scottish firm has been fined £90,000 for "blighting" the public with thousands of unwanted marketing calls.
DM Design, based in Cumbernauld, drew almost 2,000 complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Telephone Preference Service.
Scott Graham's debut drama follows Shell, a Scottish teenager growing up in an isolated petrol station with her dad. She faces adolescence without her mum, who ran away when she was four.
Graham's film won the top prize at the Turin film festival in December and is released in the UK on 15 March
LONDON - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said on Monday it had found horse DNA exceeding 60 percent in some of its own-brand frozen spaghetti bolognese meals withdrawn from stores last week.
LONDON - A new virus from the same family as SARS that sparked a global alert last September has been found in another patient in Britain, health officials said on Monday.
LONDON - As much a part of the saucier side of British 20th-century life as cheeky seaside postcards and innuendo-loaded comedies, the topless models in Britain's best-selling daily paper might soon be no more. 11 Feb 2013 [more…]
A major new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland that displays a host of treasures from the home of the people we know as Vikings, is being promoted to the people of Edinburgh through a series of Viking branded taxis, brought to life by taxi advertising specialists Ubiquitous. The creative cabs are part of a multi-channel campaign that includes press, social media and outdoor to promote the exhibition. [more…]
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