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Goodbye Sydney…Kiaora New Zealand

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

The reason I have been missing in action for the past few weeks is because I’ve been busy organising my next role in another country!   I’ve accepted an international secondment as my last role in the graduate program where I’ll be moving on from marketing and instead taking up a position in trade marketing [...]

Bloodsucker proves a winner!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Last week I shared with you the great Aerogard outdoor campaign which will be  running throughout summer in Sydney. Even better news this week as Aerogard’s ‘Don’t Give Blood’ campaign has been selected as best print ad of the week from website Best Ad on TV (competing against other international campaigns) The success of Aerogard’s [...]

Moustaches and blood? RB’s eye-catching marketing triumphs again

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Check out some of the great initiatives that RB’s marketing department have come up with! Aerogard’s (a local RB Australian insect repellent brand) creative new outdoor campaign. And Veet’s print ad which ran in conjunction with ‘Movember’. During the month of November, Aussie males (including a large contingent from RB!) are encouraged to grow weird [...]

RB says hello to 2 awards for Goodbye Bush Campaign

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Goodbye Bush was a daring yet clever print ad for Veet which was strategically placed in all major Australian newspapers the day Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. Within hours the ad had turned viral on the internet and was circulated around the globe. In October, Veet’s  Goodbye Bush campaign won 2 Caxton Awards (best FMCG ad and best [...]

A quacker of a launch for OHOP!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Australian RB offices have been hit with an influx of bizarre activity - cryptic concrete chalking, mirror messages and, more bizarrely, thousands of rubber duckies appearing everywhere!   As part of the internal OHOP (Our Home Our Planet) committee we were challenged to develop an internal employee teaser and education campaign to coincide with an [...]