Archive for September, 2009

Brainstorming in the south of France

Monday, September 28th, 2009

I’m back from a meeting with one of our sales teams in the south of France. Unfortunatly I didn’t have time to enjoy the beautiful city – even though our hotel was just 20m from the beach. But of course we didn’t go there for the beach! In Marketing it is important to participate in [...]

RB Vanishes in freak Sydney Dust Storm!

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Many of you may have seen the media coverage on the freak dust storm that blanketed Sydney for most of Wednesday morning. What was more exciting for marketers was the great opportunity to get caught up in an advertising storm with Vanish leading the charge.

The resurgence of Harpic in 10 slides or less…..

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Condensing a year of challenges, triumphs and action plans for Harpic going forward into just 10 slides is no mean feat! But that was the benchmark the Australian brand teams were briefed on for our recent business review. One of the challenges I’ve faced at RB (and still continuously do while working on developing) are [...]

Putting climate change at the top of the business agenda

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

  Are you doing your bit to help the environment when you wash your dishes? We at RB certainly are. As the issue of the environment is all over the news at the moment with world leaders meeting at the UN Climate Change Summit, I wanted to highlight an important RB initiative: Our Home [...]

How to explain to your friends and family what you are doing all day long in the office

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

If you work in Marketing, I bet at least once in your life you’ve been in trouble trying to explain what does it mean to actually “work in Marketing”. What do you actually do? As I had experienced this a lot of times, I learned how to face the fateful question: “What do you do?” [...]