Josie Allchin

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Q&A: Tricia Wilber, Disney

Josie Allchin

As part of Marketing Week’s profile of Disney’s Tricia Wilber, features editor Lucy Handley quizzes the brand’s CMO for the EMEA regions and general manager for Disney Channels about her biggest marketing challenges.

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Holiday Inn Express launches first UK TV ad

Josie Allchin

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) is launching the first UK television advertisement for Holiday Inn Express to raise awareness of the added value services that differentiate the brand in the crowded mid-priced hotel market.  

Brands abroad: Top marketers give their views

Josie Allchin

Also in this story Brands abroad: British brands advise on how to expand and reach new markets Q&A: Sean Allam, director of commercial operations, John Lewis Top 5 tips for expanding abroad “A multi-channel approach to expansion allows British retailers to extend the reach of their brand quickly to new customers around the world and so […]

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TSB CEO on a return to traditional banking

Josie Allchin

TSB has today (9 September) returned to the UK high street with a promise to offer “local banking” that helps UK “communities and customers thrive”. Marketing Week visited one of its flagship brands in London to talk to chief executive Paul Pester about the in-branch experience and what local banking means.

Koinophilia – a love of all things average

Josie Allchin

Koinophilia – a love of all things average and a fondness for the usual – is a theory developed by biologist Johan Koeslag, who suggests that in nature creatures are drawn to mates with common and familiar features rather than those that are distinct or different.

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Will the appointment of VCCP Blue signal a turnaround for Asda?

Josie Allchin

This week Asda appointed VCCP Blue to its estimated £100m ad account, in a bid to overhaul its marketing and maintain its share of the supermarket sector, which has been under increasing competition from discounters like Aldi and Lidl at one end of the scale, and upmarket supermarkets like Waitrose and Sainsbury’s at the other.