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News Analysis: Season of aggressive promotions

10 December 04, 12:00

With Christmas just a fortnight away, shopping centres and retail giants have all gone into overdrive to get Britons to spend, spend, spend. Ian Hall asks what sort of PR techniques they are using to ...

News Analysis: Will consumer PR revive hurt M&S?

19 November 04, 12:00

M&S's latest management shake-up comes amid falling profits and slumping sales. Richard Cann asks how it can best use PR to win back shoppers. With recent suitor Philip Green's shadow looming over Mar...

News Analysis: McDonald's faces more obesity flak

17 September 04, 12:00

As Britons digest Super Size Me, the anti-McDonald's polemic that hit cinemas at the weekend, Ian Hall marks the fast-food giant's PR report card while the vitriol continues to be spilled over soaring...

News Analysis: PR stunts juggle risk with success

09 July 04, 12:00

Supermarket Asda seems to have hit the PR jackpot with its optician promotion based on the controversial decision of a Euro 2004 referee. Peter Simpson reports on the lucrative and risky world of PR o...

News Analysis: Co-op faces delicate balancing act

02 July 04, 12:00

As the Co-operative Group prepares to reintroduce its 160-year-old profit-sharing programme, Richard Cann investigates the image of the formerly working-class movement and the communications challenge...

News Analysis: Sainsbury's investor relations fight

By Richard Cann, 27 February 04, 12:00

'Cumbersome, bureaucratic and lacking in dynamism' are some of the charges laid at the door of one of the UK's most venerable food retailers. Richard Cann asks whether Sainsbury's can win back the con...