Month: October 2010

Can brands still make the cut for students?

MaryLou Costa

Students are one of the groups to be hit hardest by the Government’s spending review, so should this change how brands communicate with them? Students were singled out by the media this month as one of the groups that the coalition government has looked towards to help it out of the deficit, by proposing to […]

Mark Ritson: Gullwings land Mercedes in lap of luxury

Mark Ritson

I was busted last week. The missus caught me, bang to rights, checking out the most gorgeous figure I’d ever laid eyes on. She had a stunning profile and the kind of derriere that makes men go weak at the knees. She was German, of course – it was unmistakably part of her feline assurance as she passed me.

The Secret Marketer on the effects of the spending cuts

David Coveney

Winter has arrived and boy what a change it makes to consumer behaviour. I am a prime example. Draped in my new jacket and chunky knitwear, I leave for work and return home in the dark, drink record levels of cappuccinos, reacquaint myself with soup at lunchtime and am dangerously tempted by the warmth of […]