The secrets of Manchester number one product placement PR team: ‘Chubs and Ginge’. Their identities kept secret to keep them safe, here’s a day in the life of a pressure product placement drop… THE DIARY OF CHUBS AND GINGE 5.00 am start. Train 6.30. Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. Victoria Wood and Alex Duckett Chubs and [...]
Russ Lidstone, CEO Havas PR UK, discusses why ‘failing forwards’ is an opportunity. Many years ago in a ‘title deciding’ basketball game, with seconds left on the clock and our team one point down, the normally reliable sharp-shooting Lidstone missed a critical and game deciding jump shot. The ferocious (and brilliantly named) American coach, Sprunt [...]
Valentine’s Day 2012 and at ‘50 something’ and for the first time in many, many years I find myself single. I may have to send myself a card. This emotional journey began when I was 13 and I took Lesley Rowson, aged 12, to see ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ at the ‘fleapit’ in Walkden. She finished [...]
Day 3 of the Global Leadership Meeting and it’s ‘The Future According to Facebook’, a presentation from the company’s Blake Chandlee. Fitting it took place today as it is Facebook’s eighth birthday. Yes, it is only eight years old. Think how much the world has changed in that short space of time and how much [...]
So, we begin the Havas PR Global Leadership Meeting in Miami today and it is opened by David Jones, the leader of the leaders. He is Global CEO of Havas and Havas PR Worldwide whose first job in advertising, ironically, was in Manchester. He was born and schooled in Cheshire and is a really good [...]
