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Own labels have home advantage

Marketing Week

In his article “Brand targeting rules were made to be broken” (MW June 12), Alan Mitchell quite rightly highlights the imaginative thinking that has helped to give retailers an advantage over many of the more leaden-footed packaged goods brands. However, the suggestion that marketing skills and originality of thinking account exclusively for this success misses […]

The old dog tries another new trick

Marketing Week

Perennially ailing MG Rover has dropped brand-building in favour of price-led sales tactics. With a new, inexperienced marketing boss at the wheel, is this just another chapter in the car maker’s long decline? asks John Stones