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Mark Ritson9 min read

Even if Unilever placates its investors, it still has Ben & Jerry’s to deal with

With CEO Alan Jope set to leave, Unilever faces battles not only with investors aiming to ...
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Mark Ritson5 min read

In the battle between salience and differentiation, Bothism wins

Marketers debate over salience and differentiation like they are mutually exclusive, when ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Look at your brand from the customer’s perspective, not the other way round

Responses to the Queen’s death show marketers think brands have a place in consumers’ ...
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Mark Ritson8 min read

P&O is the rare reputation crisis that really does matter

The damage P&O Cruises has suffered from P&O Ferries’ mistakes cuts to the core ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

For Omega and Swatch, the rewards of co-branding could be astronomical

Far from cannibalising Omega’s luxury sales, the collaboration with Swatch on the £200 ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

An ethnography of pricing: How and why marketers should put up prices

Inflation means price increases are marketing’s number-one priority for 2022. But how ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

Good purpose, bad purpose: Marketers shouldn’t oversimplify the arguments

Brand purpose campaigns underperform ‘traditional’ marketing on average, but for the ...
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Mark Ritson16 min read

The horror of marketers’ strategic bankruptcy is about to be laid bare

As the Better Briefs Project will reveal this week, 90% of marketers fail to brief ...
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Mark Ritson7 min read

If your distinctive brand assets are exclusively visual it’s time to come to your (other) senses

Visual cues are all very well but don’t forget the other four senses when developing ...
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