Friday, 3 September 2010

So, the British summer is coming to an end (not sure it ever really began) and its full steam ahead once more at Colin Higgins & Associates!

Louise has just come back from her holiday in Rhodes (we were deeply impressed with her interest in the culture and history of the famous Greek Island….and her ability to party until dawn and see the sun come up over the acropolis) and Natalie is, as I write, sunning herself in Ibiza, leaving the rest of us here all a little jealous. (Chris especially!)

In the last few months we have taken on a handful of new clients, which is keeping us all very busy.

Firstly Le Spa a health spa hotel based, in Cirencester. Justifiably labelled as the Cotswold’s premier health club, it has been an interesting, busy project.

To date we’ve been focussing on increasing the range of beauty therapy treatments available at Le Spa, and introduced them to celebrity beauty therapist to the stars, Deborah Mitchell and her famous Bee Venom mask. Deborah and her unusual mask have been splashed all of the papers in the last few weeks being tagged as the natural alternative to botox and giving amazing results to everyone from Danni Minogue to Michelle Pfieffer!

Here are links to two national press articles about the treament:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/beauty/article-1298041/The-Duchess-Cornwall-55-bee-string-facelift.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/7917062/Ive-had-the-Camilla-face-lift.html

Having looked at before and after shots this treatment really is the “bees knees” so excusing the cheesy puns it really has been a wise investment.

We also spotted an opportunity to put Le Spa’s name in the national papers when we heard that Chloe Madeley (Richard and Judys Daughter) was looking for a location to do a glamorous 1950’s style swimwear shoot. Le Spa to the rescue! A great day was had by all and we are waiting to see the article in print in the next few days. Watch this space.

From beautiful bodies to beautiful bathrooms, we are delighted to now be working with Alison Ebanks, owner of bathroom design and installation firm Water & Stone in Stroud. Alison is really hot property in the bathroom design business, with a bunch of awards to her name already and she’s just been nominated as one of the finalist in The Contract Bathroom Designer of the year 2010. We are keeping our fingers crossed for her and drafting a release in anticipation!

Water & Stone have a really stunning showroom and have worked with some big names including the fabulous Hemple Hotel in London. We love it when we get a client that is so easy to rave about! On the minus side, Chris is suffering from massive bathroom jealousy and the hours spent on their website looking at luxury showers is making him somewhat of a ‘bathroom bore’. No Chris, you can’t have a multi coloured LED lighting system with ipod socket in your bathroom.

As you would expect from an award winning PR company like Colin Higgins & Associates, we like to keep our finger on the pulse of current thinking and we were impressed with PR giant Saatchi & Saatchi’s idea to bring creative minds together from all over the world with ‘The Impossible Brief’.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been tearing lives apart for over 60 years and to date political leaders have failed to reach a diplomatic solution to create a sense of closeness between the two nations. So the guys at Saatchi have thrown the problem open to the world and said ‘let’s get creative minds from around the world to propose their own 'out of the box' solutions on how to bring together two nations that for a long time have been physically close, yet mentally worlds apart.’

It’s an interesting idea. In this in industry we spend our days thinking creatively, maybe, just maybe we could come up with something. Hmmmm……

Can you crack the impossible brief?

www.theimpossiblebrief.com

Right, we are off for yet another fabulous coffee from the shop downstairs, Pepper Crescent, and to ponder if a celebrity football match could solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.