Why Coca Cola really won the cola wars

Every time Pepsi change their logo, they create a level of uncertainty in a potential customer, rather like going into a pub or office you don’t know, that it may not be to your taste. You will naturally ask yourself ‘Will it be the Pepsi I know? Or have they changed it to make it more relevant to a new more exciting and younger audience? Will I look silly if I drink it? My very own equivalent of dad dancing in the wrong room.

Innocent Smoothies ‘A Book About Innocent: Our Story and Some Things We’ve Learned – Book review

There are few books that I have ever read that I have enjoyed more than ‘A Book About Innocent: Our Story and Some Things We’ve Learned’, because it is so obviously living its own values throughout every single element of the presentation.

Fine just isn’t good enough

When you make brand promises as big as M&S have been making, you have to not only wine and dine them, you have to be the perfect date, who brings flowers to you, says nice things to the future in laws and remembers all the little brothers and sisters birthdays. You have to be perfect. Not fine. Perfect

Brian Howard Clough and the brand that is Nottingham

I have just read the book ‘The Damned United’ about Brian Clough’s time at Leeds United. To any of you who have read this blog for a while, you’ll realise that I am a bit of a fan of Cloughie’s, so wanted to look at him as a brand to see what he stood for and what made him stand out – two vital elements for any branding programme.

Brylcreem needs to live its values

My 11 year old son Ted is playing Danny Zuko in a production of Grease. The house is full of tight fighting black trousers, tight fitting white t-shirt and a perfect leather jacket. So to complete the part with his hair (that he has been growing for two months) where else could I go but to Brylcreem. The haircare brand I would always associate with the era, the film and slicked back hair in general.

Blogging and brand values

There seems to be a lot of blogging going on a Purple Circle at the moment and it’s all to do with some of our own brand values – being passionate and actually daring to have an opinion.

A stunning article on new brand thinking

Changing logos is pointless, branding is about the experience, enlightened clients apply here please.

The tarnished Sword of Excellence

Many years ago, one of our biggest clients was Thomas Cork SML, later to become Cork International. They supplied merchandised ranges and latterly books to all of the major retailers. In their reception area was a huge mission statement stating they were working towards and living excellence in everything they did. It was joined by [...]

Saving the Rainforest one glass of Orange Juice at a time

I was reading the Freakonomics blog via the New York Times today and noticed a brilliant article that seemed to back up our thought about adding value. On some Tropicana orange juice packs in the US you can go to their website and type in a code and they will set you aside 10 square [...]

Welcome back Woolworths

I was searching the web this morning and saw a Google Adword for Woolworths. I did hear that they were back, but click here for proof. http://www.woolworths.co.uk By reading over their blog, it seems like they are being sensible and trying to correct the mistakes that took them down in the first place. They talk [...]

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