Maltesers is putting inclusivity at the heart of its brand after its Paralympic Games campaign featuring people with disabilities proved to be its most successful advertising in the last eight years. Speaking to Marketing Week, Michele Oliver, vice-president of marketing at Mars Chocolate UK, which owns Maltesers, says the response from the public and consumers to its ads…
Designer guilt. I feel it all the time, I’m sure you do too. I feel this guilt when I fail to do something that the design community has insisted that all designers must do. When I jump right into high-fidelity prototypes, I feel guilty. When I rely too much on my own assumptions rather than…
Seventeen marketing leaders including BT’s Dan Ramsay and Chris Duncan from News UK have been chosen to take part in this year’s The Marketing Academy fellowship programme. The programme is designed to equip CMOs and marketing bosses with the skills needed to make the transition on to boards and into the CEO role. Now in…
L’Oréal’s Kérastase brand is focusing on data with its latest innovation, the world’s first smart hairbrush, which it says will allow the beauty brand to communicate directly with consumers and provide “much more personalised marketing”. The product unveiled today (4 January) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, uses algorithms to score the…
Next, seen as one of the bellwethers of the British high street, saw sales fall in the run-up to Christmas and has warned that the outlook for 2017 will be “challenging” for retailers. Full-price sales for the 54 days to 24 December were down by 0.4%. While this was an improvement on the third quarter,…