Helen Berners
How proud of The Coffee Bean Company is B&V? VERY.In just two years this Hampshire-based supplier of hot beverage systems and supplies has grown from new bean on the block to best bean in the UK for growth, winning the recognition of Dutch coffee giant, Douwe Egberts, in their 'Overall Growth Award 2010/11'.
Naturally, we like to think that our ongoing PR, design, web and marketing services have played some part in this company's shining success in the face of widespread economic gloom-mongering.
Well done, Team Bean, from all of us at B&V!
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Emma
Hohoho……. It’s now dawning on us all that we’ve left it too late to book the companies Christmas function – but have you? Even though at B&V we prefer to have a lunchtime Christmas meal so this maybe easier to find space BUT I’m pleased to announce that it could be you being kissed under the mistletoe to say thank you for booking a fab meal for your work colleagues (OK, that doesn’t happen to me but a girl can dream!). I have been very lucky in finding spaces at a rather top notch restaurant in Southampton that can accommodate our lunch booking on – wait for it…………….. Friday 23rd December – how good is that? Hangover on Saturday morning but at least no work the next day. So to you poor ‘Christmas organisers’ out there who have the lovely task of arranging this for your staff – all is not lost, have a ring round you’ll be surprised what’s left and how reasonable the costs are this year!! So grab your bucks fizz, pop on your cracker hat and have fun!!
Helen Berners
Monday, November 7th, and Christmas lights gloom down from lamp posts still swinging with Summer's desiccating flower baskets. Soon, at some poorly attended ceremony, these lights will puddle into life. Too soon.
Is it curmudgeonly to regard this early arrival as a Bad Thing? Yes – and rightly so – with shelves still heaving with over-priced Hallowe'en tat and forgotten fireworks. With kids already at bawling-pitch over they know not what. With parents already bankrupt in the increasingly hopeless task of sating their sticky, ADHD progeny.
As if tempus didn't fugit fast enough, this helter-skelter from one spendfest to another makes life a mindless, bankrolling blur from crib to coffin.
Why not get it all over and done with in one hit?
What a Parents' Day that would be.
What Peace on Earth for the rest of us - to get on with real-world marketing that really works.
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Monday evening update: Christmas Lights zig-zag the length and breadth of Bedford Place high street and... they are already blazing!
