9 July 2010

Well that’s that over for another 4 years. England’s World Cup run that is. Not sure we could have taken any more tension, Chris and Natalie certainly couldn’t. Let’s hope the word vuvuzela disappears into the African sunset along with Capello’s victory dreams. Did you hear a Russian businessman has paid approx £14,000 for an Austrian hand crafted gold and diamond encrusted one.. .WHY? Apparently it is for his business partner…again…WHY?!

From a marketing point of view we were impressed with the guerrilla marketing tactics employed by Bavaria Beer but didn’t envy the two ladies who spent a good few days languishing in a Cape Town jail for all their creative genius. I think we will stick to less risky promotion ideas if that’s ok?

Wimbledon has also come and gone in the blink of an eye; were we all too busy actually enjoying the good weather to sit inside and watch the telly? Natalie is on week three of her tennis-fest, long may it continue, well at least until it clouds over a bit hey Nat?Glastonbury celebrated its 40th birthday this year and some members of the team are ashamed to say they’ve never been. Discussions are underway regarding a work outing next time… but with campsites looking like this (insert photo) I think some members would spend the entire tut tutting and muttering under their breath. Glyndebourne anybody?

Work continues apace; we visited an exhibition at Olympia ofinternational hospitals and clinics offering everything from dental implants to laser eye surgery (and a few more dodgy bits in between!..) so we are now following up talks with a handful of overseas medical concerns. We will keep you posted, however if you suddenly see any members of staff bearing a striking resemblance to Sylvester Stallone’s mother then you can be fairly sure we are now working for a plastic surgery clinic on a pro-rata deal. One press release equals one age reducing medical procedure.

Am now currently pondering the potentially interesting list of what everyone might have done, but can’t afford the libel fees so going to stop here.

Other work has seen new articles added to www.parkingindurham.co.uk and production of the latest newsletter, Woodland News, for Memorial Woodlands www.memorialwoodlands.com/latestnewsletter.php, which shows all the lovely photos from the inauguration of the new War Memorial, which took place in May.

We have had initial talks with The Royal Horticultural Society at Hampton Court Flower show regarding our client’s 2011 Chelsea Garden which was very exciting. Much foliage was stashed in the back of the car on the journey home but what we are going to do with the life-size faux marble model of Michelangelo’s David I have no idea. The looks we got as we whipped back down the M4 in the boss’ car, well where else was I supposed to hook the seat belt?

On a more serious note we have begun providing internal communications to Aviance as they withdraw their baggage handling service from London Heathrow. Thankfully the HR teams from Aviance have managed to secure jobs with fellow baggage handlers Menzies as they take over BMI & Lufthansa airline contracts.

Facebook, love it or hate it it’s here to stay and we found these most amazing statistics online today:

http://www.onlinephdprograms.com/facebook-facts-you-probably-didnt-know/

And still no time to talk about itunes accounts being hacked into, Nationwide’s retreat from sponsoring the English football team or Lady Gaga beating Barack Obama into number one slot of having the most ‘friends’ on Facebook. Next time perhaps.

From

“The Team”