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Autumn – a time of opportunity for brands
September heralds the end of Summer and the start of Autumn. In the business world it is also a time of significant change – it links together retailers, creating their strategies (if their accounting year is January to December) and suppliers, planning their...
Degree Apprenticeships at Top Brands Unlock Career Success
Traditional university degrees are no longer the only route to a successful career in the current competitive job market. Level 6 degree apprenticeships have emerged as a powerful alternative since 2015, offering students the opportunity to get a degree while working...
Upskilling Gen Z Employees to Succeed in Evolving Retail
How well do you understand the needs of the New Generation hitting the workplace? A recent Network of Women and Deloitte Report informed us that : Gen Z will soon surpass Millennials as the most populous generation on earth, with more than one-third of the world’s...
The Melody of Memory: Jingles as Brand DNA #WhatBrandsDo
New research from Distinctive BAT proposes five common factors that define high-performing distinctive brand assets to aid mental and physical availability - with jingles the clear leader. Jingles, explains Matthew Ovington, co-founder and head of research at...
PepsiCo raises the heat with Flamin’ Hot range
PepsiCo has added an Extra Flamin’ Hot variant to each of its Doritos, Walkers Max and Wotsits Crunchy ranges, in response to demand for more varied spicy snacks. Introduced earlier this year, the new products also triggered the renaming of existing Flamin’ Hot...
Wicked Kitchen Pesto Sauce food innovation
Among the many distinctive innovations coming from Wicked Kitchen is this trio of unusual pesto sauces. Living up to Wicked Kitchen’s mission for chefs to create plant-based foods with bold flavours, the pesto sauces were launched in 2020 to provide a vegan-friendly...
Pedigree Adoptable Award-Winning AI Campaign
A campaign that used AI to house dogs won a Cannes Grand Prix 2024 award. Pedigree’s 'Adoptable' innovative AI-driven campaign used machine learning models to bring real dogs from local shelters into Pedigree out-of-home media placements. AI technology was trained to...
Pladis McVitie’s Jaffa Cake flavour variations
Pladis is aiming to expand appeal for McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes by launching a new flavour and venturing beyond fruit for the first time in its history. A marriage between one of Britain’s favourite sweets and best-loved snacks, its latest limited-edition launch –...
Baileys trial glass-alternative bottles in sustainability drive
Diageo has announced plans to trial paper-based packaging for its Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur brand. This is Diageo’s first consumer-facing trial with paper-based bottles and will test how the bottles travel from the filling site in Ireland to Barcelona, along with...
Anchor launches squeezy butter
Arla has launched a new innovation in butter, Anchor Squeezy. Anchor Squeezy blends Anchor butter with 67% rapeseed oil and is dispensed by squeezing the bottle. Holly Murray, Director of BSM at Arla, said: “Our ambition with this new product launch is to help...