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POSITIONING: THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND
Al Ries and Jack Trout (McGraw-Hill Trade, 2000). (***)
6 thinking hats by edward de bono
SIX THINKING HATS Edward de Bono (Little, Brown and Company, 1985).(**)
blue ocean strategy
BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). (****)
BUILT TO LAST James C. Collins and Jerry I.Porras (1994, HarperBusiness Essentials).(****)

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Should Musgrave Keep or Kill the Superquinn Brand?

26 September 2011

Marketing journalist Siobhán O’Connell, wrote an interesting article in the Irish Times Media & Marketing section recently where she posed the question “Does Musgrave’s takeover afford the opportunity to reinvent or kill the Superquinn brand?” ThinkTank was kindly asked to comment and our thoughts together with the diverse views of other branding and marketing experts can be viewed here in the Irish Times article.

Superquinn’s excellence in the past was due to the extraordinary vision of Fergal Quinn. He understood brand innately and  knew that every world beating brand is underpinned by a strong customer value proposition. He set about identifying the important problems that needed to be solved for Irish grocery shoppers, exceeding their expectations constantly through a culture of innovation, relentlessly placing the customer at the core of the organisation and in so doing building a hugely successful brand.

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The Irish Examiner, makes waves with provocative new ad campaign

20 September 2011

It is certainly refreshing in the Cork advertising space to see the broadsheet Irish Examiner making a bold move with the development of their hard hitting and thought provoking billboard and print ad campaign.

Developed by Dublin based Chemistry advertising the campaign promotes the Examiner’s “Special Investigations” supplement that  tackles several of Ireland’s socially taboo subjects -including alcoholism, mental illness, clerical abuse, human trafficking, suicide and pornography.

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