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International development charity Practical Action has appointed Band & Brown Communications (Twitter: @BBComms) as its PR agency to help it reach new audiences via a thought-provoking online video campaign with a difference. The agency has been recruited following a three-way pitch to raise the profile of Practical Action, whose four-decades of working with the people of the developing world to

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 The British Red Cross has appointed Band & Brown Communications as its creative agency to build propensity to act by increasing the number of 11-16 year olds with first-aid skills.The agency has been recruited following a 4-way pitch to increase the number of young people who are confident, competent and willing to act when they find themselves, their family or friends in a crisis which can be

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Mental health charity Mind has beaten stiff competition to secure pro-bono PR support from Band & Brown Communications, the leading communications agency announces today. More than 70 health and wellbeing charities applied to be considered for the pro-bono offer, which includes two per cent of Band & Brown’s profits from 2009 being put towards the charity’s chosen campaign. Mind’s campaign –

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Thanks to all the health and wellbeing charities who applied to be our pro-bono cause this year.  We’ve had a great response and will let all applicants know if they’ve been successful by Friday 9 July. Good luck!

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Health and wellbeing charities have one more week to apply to receive pro-bono PR support from leading London communications agency, Band & Brown Communications. The company, which includes PR, design, experiential and social media specialists has set aside two per cent of profits from 2009 to be used by the successful charity in fee time. Charities representing a broad range of topics

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Maternity cover required for an exceptional and highly skilled PR practioner within our Business Practice. Working with market leaders and pioneers across technology and corporate clients you will need to demonstrate solid experience in these fields, with an in-depth understanding of the industries and issues. Excellent people and client management skills, along with superb strategic consultancy

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Leading London communications agency, Band & Brown Communications, has opened nominations for charities to apply to be their pro-bono cause in 2010. The company, which includes PR, design, experiential and social media specialists has set aside two per cent of profits from 2009 to be used by the successful charity in fee time. Previous beneficiaries from Band & Brown’s pro-bono scheme include

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Action Against Hunger, the charity committed to ending child hunger, has appointed MCBD and Band & Brown to handle its UK advertising and PR accounts, on a pro-bono basis. The Cossette-owned agencies have been tasked with promoting the organisation, which works in over 40 countries worldwide to save the lives of malnourished children, and raising the profile of its key fundraising activity,

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David Cameron takes a boost from trends in the nation’s popular conversations into the final days of election campaigning, according to new statistics. The weekly TalkingPoint ‘positive conversation’ index saw the number of Brits having a positive conversation about the Conservative leader increase from 17 per cent last week to 21 per cent this week (+4). While Nick Clegg remains out in front,

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Band & Brown this week launched the nationwide roll out of LV= Streetwise, a charity that educates children about safety, by offering a group of pupils at St Dominic's primary school in Harpenden the chance to premier its unique mobile safety centre, which will be touring the UK this summer. To coincide with the launch, LV= Streetwise, which aims to reduce the number of accidents among children,

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With just nine days until the polling booths open, one in three (36 per cent) Brits failed to have a single conversation about the general election in the last week, according to new statistics. It appears the impact of screening the second leaders’ debate primarily on cable and satellite channels has dampened the public’s discussion of the election, with conversations falling from 68 per cent

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Brits were four times more likely to have a positive conversation about Nick Clegg than Cheryl Cole in the last week, according to new research. More than a third (39 per cent) of the British population had a positive conversation about the Lib Dem leader, while 16 per cent had a similar conversation about David Cameron and 13 per cent about Gordon Brown. Less than one in ten Brits has a

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Band & Brown sets Twitter trend Band & Brown scored a real coup on Twitter last week, turning comments made on a client website by Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg about the controversial Digital Economy Act into a Twitter trending topic. B&B client The Student Room (@studentroom), the country's largest student-only social network, is holding general election Q&A sessions between its members and the

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Band & Brown has appointed Head of Public Sector, Simon Francis and Associate director, Mark Lowe to its board. Francis will continue to shape the agency’s voluntary and government practice whilst Lowe will focus on driving growth in the commercial sector. Commenting on the appointments CEO Gill Brown said: “Both Mark and Simon have been integral to Band & Brown’s growth in recent years.  I’m

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GfK NOP has appointed Band & Brown Communications to promote its position as a leader in market research, analysis and insight. Band & Brown’s remit is to promote GfK NOP’s expertise in core sectors – consumer trends, financial services, technology and business – as well as supporting other ongoing marketing activity across all areas of the business.  PR activity will focus on enhancing GfK NOP’

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The Student Room, one of the UK’s largest web sites for young people and the biggest student site, has appointed Band & Brown Communications as its UK marketing communications partner.  Band & Brown will deliver an integrated campaign to drive awareness among recruiters, brand managers and government bodies wanting to target and engage with The Student Room’s audience of 2.8 million young people

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The people’s voice is brought to life through the first ever election broadcast generated completely by the public, due to be unveiled today at the House of Commons.  Independent education foundation Edge has collated public responses through online messages, social media, videos and events over a seven-month campaign which encouraged people to have their say on education. The campaign makes

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Band & Brown Communications has appointed Melanie Howard, as a non-executive director to advise on a number of corporate and strategic projects for the agency and help future-proof the agency’s work.Howard, co-founder of consumer think-tank the Future Foundation, has spent 20 years using social trend analysis to help businesses identify opportunities and develop new services. A longstanding

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Following the launch of a hard-hitting social work recruitment campaign, more than 40,000 people have registered to join the profession. Band & Brown was tasked by The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) to overcome negative perceptions of social work as a career, fuelled by heavy criticism of the profession in recent months. The ‘Be the difference’ campaign was two-pronged: to

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Band & Brown brought together the worlds of film and education for a red carpet launch of landmark documentary ‘We Are The People We’ve Been Waiting For’. Inspired and guided by Oscar-winning producer Lord Puttnam and supported by independent education foundation Edge, the film explores whether the current education system provides young people with the opportunity to develop their talents

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Band & Brown has responded to the Central Office of Information’s (COI) consultation on standardising evaluation across the PR industry. Industry reports confirm that one of the key recommendations from the consultation is that the advertising value equivalent (AVE) not be included as part of mandatory metrics and is replaced by a cost per impact model. Simon Francis, head of public sector at

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Online animation guides students through visa process Applying for a visa has traditionally been a seen as a complex and lengthy process. In April 2009 the UK Border Agency implemented Tier 4 of the new Points-Based System, streamlining the visa process for potential international students looking to study in the UK. Band & Brown brought these changes to life, creating an animated step-by-step

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Band & Brown Communications beat off competition from hundreds of campaigns to be ‘Highly Commended’ at this year’s PR Week Awards for the launch of the London Historical Records, 1500s-1900s on family history website Ancestry.co.uk – narrowly missing out on the ‘best use of research’ top prize to the eventual campaign of the year. The campaign proved that indeed all roads do lead to London –

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Spreading the kindness offensive Every day Londoners defy the moody and unhelpful stereotype.  So we brought this to life for ‘feel good’ savings provider ING Direct by partnering with The Kindness Offensive to show the capital’s kind hearted side. Stooges posing as struggling pregnant women and lost tourists were placed around the city – with those deciding to help being rewarded with a

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'Work inspiration' programme also launched as part of Big Conversation. Band & Brown Group has launched a search for the first 'PR Apprentice' and an overhaul of work experience opportunities as part of a new commitment to improve career routes into the industry. Two 16-plus young people will be given the chance to combine earning a real wage in a real PR job with recognised training towards

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Young people, parents and teachers will be urged to ensure their voice is heard on the next five years of education in a new campaign launching on 10th September. With politicians writing the manifestos for the next general election now, independent education foundation Edge will be collating the views of the public to send a message to politicians that the current education system needs to be

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Band & Brown has signed up to the Government's campaign to back young Britain. "Backing young Britain" is bringing businesses and public and voluntary sectors together to ensure that the valuable skills and experience of our young people aren't being wasted. Gill Brown, Chief Executive, said: "In the current economic climate, all employers are looking at how they can best nurture the talent of

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Account director Hayley Douglas has joined the Band & Brown Communications team. Clocking up a total of five years PR experience, Hayley brings strong commercial experience, having worked across a number of high-profile global brands. During her career she’s managed campaigns for the likes of Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, Gillette and Nestle. Since moving to the UK from New Zealand in 2008

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Global technology and online media company Specific Media has appointed Band & Brown Communications as its UK PR agency. Band & Brown will develop a strategic campaign to build brand awareness of the company among the marketing, advertising and media planning communities, specifically within the retail, travel, financial services and automotive sectors. The contract will include a brand awareness

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First ever premiership ‘value league’ creates media storm Band & Brown has crunched football league stats and polled fans to produce the first ever Premiership ‘Value League’ for savings bank ING Direct, showing that Wigan Athletic, not Manchester United delivers the goods when it comes to points for your pound. The story was a huge hit on the airwaves and online, securing spokesperson interviews

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Brown Communications has made two major appointments in a restructure of senior staff designed to bolster its client services. Simon Francis becomes the new Head of Public Sector Practice – reporting into Managing Director, Graz Belli. Francis will continue to expand Band & Brown’s public and voluntary sector client base, which already includes DCSF, DWP, National College for School Leadership,

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Just two per cent of the childcare workforce is male. To help the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) tackle this imbalance, Band & Brown developed a campaign championing the role of men in the early years sector – which more than punched its weight against no less an historic story as Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. With careers in nurseries simply not on men’s radars, we

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Band & Brown Communications has been short listed for ‘Best Use of Digital PR’ in CIPR’s Excellence Awards 2009.The nomination is for the agency's BeMyInterviewer campaign for recruitment site, Jobsite.co.uk. This is the campaign's second award nomination this year, and the first time Jobsite have been nominated for the CIPR Awards.BeMyInterviewer is a video based website offering interview

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Launching London's historic records Over 400 years of London history are held online in Ancestry.co.uk’s records.  We showcased the launch of the millions of records from the 1500s to the 1900s at London’s Guildhall. TV’s Tony Robinson was on hand to explain the importance of these unique historical documents and our media campaign focused on bringing back to life the Workhouse records so

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The second annual day to celebrate vocational achievement was launched at a Parliamentary reception at the Houses of Parliament on 4th March. VQ Day 2009 will be held on 24th June to recognise the success of millions of vocational learners around the UK in the past year. The day will be marked by events held at colleges and learning providers across the country. Plans for the Day are being led

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As reported in PR Week, the Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Band & Brown to help promote changes to pension regulations that will affect millions of workers. Fiona Longhurst, Planning Director at Band & Brown commented: "These are important reforms which will make a real difference to how people prepare for later life. The whole team at Band & Brown is looking forward to working

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Band & Brown put in place the final piece of the ‘Roots’ jigsaw this week in a world-first media event at the Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE Show in London. Alex Haley, originator of the seminal US mini-series, always maintained that his great grandfather was a white Scottish plantation owner – but could never prove it. Now, using cutting edge DNA technology from Ancestry.co.uk, we are finally

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The report into Colleges Week - a national celebration of the role colleges play organised by Band & Brown on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Association of Colleges - has shown a 30 per cent increase in the number of adults hearing key messages about the role colleges play in unlocking talent. The week focused on five key themes demonstrating the impact

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Band & Brown Communications took on a pro-bono challenge back in November – assisting Sussex charity ‘The Women’s Refuge Project’ with their rebrand to ‘Rise’. To mark the rebranding of the service, which offers refuge, information, support and education to females and families affected by domestic abuse, the refuge organised ‘Drum Out Abuse’, a noisy march through Tarner and Eastern Road in

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Band & Brown has been appointed to two rosters by the UK government's Central Office of Information (COI). Covering UK-wide PR briefs and government to business communications the frameworks are chosen to ensure government departments and public sector organisations can access the 'best of the best' communications agencies. Gill Brown, CEO of Band & Brown Communications, said: "Over the last

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Band & Brown Communications together with online identity experts, Garlik, and criminologists from 1871 recently issued the second annual ‘UK Cybercrime’ monitor. This year’s report focused on the current financial crisis and its role in driving a wave of UK cybercrime that has seen online financial crime jump nearly twenty percent to 250,000 incidents in 2007 compared with 207,000 in 2006. B&B

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Band & Brown Group has made two major appointments to fuel the continued growth of its successful PR brands. Graz Belli, is announced as the new Managing Director of Band & Brown Communications, with a focused mandate to build on the agency’s reputation for excellence and lead its future development into new markets. Belli already sits on the Group board and has been instrumental in growing the

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Band & Brown Communications added another award to its trophy cabinet at this year’s PR Week Awards. BeMyInterviewer, Band & Brown’s ground-breaking project for Jobsite.co.uk, was highly commended in the Digital Innovation category. Conceived by Band & Brown and developed with Brando Digital, BeMyInterviewer is the first of its kind. Aimed at jobhunters, the interactive, video-based site allows

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London, 2nd October, 2008 – To support the launch of the Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot(TM) handset, Sony Ericsson and Academy Award nominated director Mike Figgis created ‘Life Captured’ - a short film made from still cameraphone images which was previewed at the 16th Raindance Film Festival in London. Sony Ericsson invited members of the public from Europe, the Middle East and Africa to submit

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Band & Brown Communications supported the Department for Children, Schools and Families to launch the 'Out & About' package to encourage more learning outside the classroom. The Out and About package is designed to give schools much clearer information to organise effective learning outside the classroom activities for all pupils. It includes a new Quality Badge scheme to cut paperwork for

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Business communications specialist Rebecca Johnston has joined Band & Brown Communications from PR firm Golley Slater. Rebecca’s experience includes campaigns for Hoover, Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, the Asset Based Finance Association and the Hydrogen Group. She also has extensive experience in public sector to business communications, including work for A4e (UK’s largest welfare to work

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Band & Brown Communications are supporting the work of Edge - the independent education foundation - at this year's party conferences. At the recent Edge and New Statesman-sponsored opening party of the Labour Conference at Manchester Town Hall, Band & Brown worked closely with Edge's inhouse public affairs manager to co-ordinate activity and branding. National Learner Panel member Lynette

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Try life in another language What do rock bands, gigs and reality TV have in to do with learning a second language? Everything. As part of its campaign to encourage more 11-14 year olds to learn a foreign language at GCSE level, Department of Children Schools and Families funded 'Je Suis Un Rock Star' a reality TV documentary on Channel 4's T4. The programme charted a group of 12 lucky

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Independent tracking research to gauge the effectiveness of the first ever VQ Day in July 2008 has revealed that over half of people (51 per cent) now agree that vocational qualifications are as important as GCSEs and A-levels - up from 44 per cent before VQ Day was launched in April 2008. The evaluation report into the day, published today, also reveals that one in five adults in the UK heard

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Borough Market - Rebrand Europe’s biggest outdoor food market needed a new identity and collateral. Thirst worked closely with the trustees to rebrand the historic site across signage, stationery, website and publications. www.boroughmarket.org.uk

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Hester Bray has joined Band & Brown Communications from PR agency Manning Selvage and Lee where she worked in the corporate department, with clients from the IT, financial and business sector including GMAC UK, global IT services company Atos Origin, Affinion International and online banking service Ivobank. Hester has consumer, B2B and European campaign experience, having previously worked in

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British Waterways has brought Band & Brown Communications on board to refresh its consumer PR activities and promote Britain's waterways to a wider audience. BW is the guardian of the UK's 200-year-old, 2000 mile network of canals and rivers and has retained the agency - based a stone's throw from Camden's stretch of the Regent's Canal - for six months. Working in tandem with an existing

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Upstaging the hotel business The white tuxedoed pianist is normally what you think of when talking about hotel entertainment. But this is exactly the image Band & Brown was tasked with banishing when unveiling the world’s first arts club hotel. To launch Guest Hotels, the new hotel collection transforming its five hotels into hotbeds for emerging talent from London’s creative arts scene, we

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Facebook and Myspace now serve as the playgrounds of kids across the planet, and in the process young people are faced with a whole host of new risks to their safety and security. Working with online identity experts, Garlik, Band & Brown Communications recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of these risks. Our news stories revealed that there are one million young UK bullies in

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Competitors from Band & Brown Communications took to the field earlier in July representing the PR industry – putting their strength, endurance and wits to the test at the ING Direct Inter-agency Sports Day. Martin Rutland from ING Direct provided a captain’s performance for Team B&B dominating the three-legged race, the hoop run and the space-hopper sprint. Despite valiant efforts from ING

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Band & Brown Communications has been appointed as life assistance company CPP’s retained agency following a five-way pitch. B&B has been recruited to elevate CPP’s profile as a global leader in life assistance products while supporting the UK company’s goals to sustain strong year-on-year growth, launch new products and enter new sectors. B&B will be responsible for creating and delivering a

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As hundreds of thousands of young people receive their exam results, Band & Brown has launched a national campaign for the education foundation Edge urging young people to remember ‘whatever your A-level results, know your options.’ The campaign is designed to tap into the ‘decision-making mindset’ of parents and young people during August exam results season. The centrepiece of the campaign, a

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Launching the Networking Academy 500,000 European IT jobs needed to be filled and with technology responsible for a major share of productivity growth across Europe, that spelt bad news for businesses, governments and economies.  We ran the CSR campaign, Networking Academy for Cisco, to address the problem.  As part of the programme we commissioned a 31-country study revealing shortages in

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Who knew bird poo was such a big problem?! According to a recent Band & Brown news story for our client Zurich Insurance, damage caused by bird muck is costing British motorists a whopping £57 million a year. Although bird lime (as it's officially known) is generally regarded as an unfortunate stroke of luck and a nasty mess, many people don't know that failing to remove bird muck from your car

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Band & Brown is working with NCSL on a landmark campaign to recruit the next generation of headteachers in England, to replace the thousands who will retire in the next three years. Many female teachers would make excellent heads but lack the confidence to put themselves forward. We set about addressing this with a dedicated campaign, ‘Women in Headship’, including a series of motivational

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The nation's first national celebration of vocational success was spear-headed by a Band & Brown lead event at the Royal Opera House, starring Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon. Alesha was joined on stage by Secretary of State for Skills John Denham and his opposition shadows David Willetts for the Conservatives and Stephen Williams for the Liberal Democrats. Also at the event were

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To celebrate the opening of the new Somerfield store in Laceby Road on 26th June, hopeful shoppers entered a fishing competition with a twist – the water was frozen. With Grimsby once heralded as the largest and busiest fishing port in the world and now a leader in frozen foods, Somerfield invited customers to try their luck at ‘catching’ a plastic fish by chipping away at a block of ice. First

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Masters of Sand Sandcastles are not just for kids.  No. Not when you get an expert coming up with the perfect formula for building, a professional sculptor on Great Yarmouth beach and then hundreds of families vying for a Masters of Sand title.  And with over 17 million opportunities to see or hear about the campaign, competition was hot.  We put Teletext Holidays on the map for UK family breaks

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The nation's first Vocational Qualifications Day has taken place with Band & Brown driving the media focus on the success these qualifications can bring to young people and adults. An independent report released by Band & Brown's client Edge has revealed that over 3,250,000 vocational qualifications were awarded in the UK last year, a rise of 117 per cent on the numbers awarded five years ago.

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BeMyIntervewer.co.uk has been voted a finalist in the ‘Digital Innovation’ category in the PRWeek Awards 2008. BeMyInterviewer.co.uk is a completely new concept and the UK’s first website to allow jobseekers to practise interviews with real bosses from leading companies via interactive videos. Developed by Band & Brown and BrandoDigital on behalf of Jobsite.co.uk, it has taken interview

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Unisys Security Index To heighten awareness of Unisys' role as a secure business solutions expert, we launched the bi-annual Unisys Security Index across 8 countries in Continental Europe to provide a barometer on consumer attitudes towards national, personal, financial and Internet security. The results serve as a call to action for businesses and governments to develop or tighten their

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Sony Ericsson B-Boy Championships Sony Ericsson wanted a long-term partner to reach out to Britain's urban youth. Over 3 years, Brando has strategically taken them from support act to lead sponsor of the UK B-Boy championships. Media partnerships, merchandise, careful branding and community website www.ubattle.com has made Sony Ericsson an accepted part of the B-Boy community.

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Brando brought real dodgems to the British International Motor Show at Excel, London, this week as part of the brand experience it created for Zurich. As lead sponsors of BIMS, Zurich is using the show as a platform to introduce their new direct insurance brand, Zurich Connect, to UK consumers. Andrew Casher, Group Account Director at Brando said, “We’re excited to be involved with the start of

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Changing the image of teaching A giant puzzle isn’t something you’d normally associate with maths teaching. But that’s exactly what Band & Brown used to combat the misconception that maths is dull, drab and dry and recruit people into teaching it. A 3D 3 metre tall Sudoku cube was taken on a national tour to publicise the need for more maths teachers, grabbing the front page of the Times on the

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Top bosses put UK jobseekers in the hot seat It’s one thing to find a dream job that matches your skills and experiences, but quite another to be able to sell yourself in the interview hot seat. To drive candidates through to Jobsite, Band & Brown created BeMyInterviewer.co.uk – a video based website offering interview practice and advice from top bosses like Duncan Bannatyne, Jacqueline Gold

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Above and beyond Exodus needed a break from the old routine. So they asked us to get them out of the travel sections and into lifestyle pages. And we did. A cricket match between locals and tourists helped save Indian tigers – and made The Daily Telegraph. Winning a Mini Gap Year stole acres of coverage in The Times.  Our clever mixture of media relations and promotional activity has given

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Getting hold of your money Nobody likes to pay for withdrawing their own cash from an ATM and it’s particularly hard to swallow if you’re living on the breadline. We worked with RBS to launch its corporate social responsibility campaign, inviting the public to nominate the areas most in need of a free-to-use cash machine and then installed 300 in Britain’s poorest communities.

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The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has selected Band & Brown and the Central Office of Information’s (COI) News and PR team to promote the Early Years Professional Status (EYPS). EYPS is a Status that graduates who work with children aged 0-5 years can attain. The first Early Years Professionals (EYPs) were accredited in February 2007 and currently more than 1900 people have

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Brando has won the brief to promote San Miguel’s 'Hidden Depths' series of music and media events throughout 2008. San Miguel Hidden Depths aims to challenge consumers to look that little bit deeper as they are given a rare insight into the musical and visual inspirations of some of the UK’s most intriguing artists. This year, the series will consist of five one-off events held in London and

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As much as it does not come naturally, we’d like to plug another agency! This is the latest, longest and arguably the greatest Hovis commercial of all time. It’s an epic romp through 122 years of Hovis history and some of the great milestones in British history. Created by our sister agency Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, the spot encapsulates the entire time period by using a boy who picks up

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