Month: May 2011

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One man’s vision

MaryLou Costa

Learn more about Stockwell’s 18-month plan to drive the success of the One brand in our Q&A, click here Consumers don’t want heavy emotion and imagery that comes with traditional charity, says Stockwell, read more here One’s products are aimed at fashionable ethically-minded consumer who don’t boast about how much they’ve donated to charity, find […]

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The best form of innovation is simply doing things better

Richard Madden

The story of how Edward Stobart grew his father’s haulage business is a perfect demonstration of how to develop a brand. Two events in the past month – one tragic, the other rather more welcome – prompted me to think again about the nature of innovation. The first event was the death, at the age […]

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It pays to be honest about thefts of data

Mark Choueke

When Ashley Stockwell – the subject of Marketing Week’s cover story this week – was at Virgin Media, he told me that it was getting to the point where none of the broadband providers could promise perfect, uninterrupted, faultless and fast broadband all the time. He reckoned the battle in that sector over the next […]