Search results for: “brexit”
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Swatch and Brexit + more
Swatch and Brexit Swatch have been doing some interesting things around personalisation of watch design, but Swatch and Brexit feels like a leap too far. They’ve got a really nice user experience in the web interface, which makes this a disappointing post to make. I do wonder about who they think Swatch and Brexit is…
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Is Brexit bad for Europe + more
Judy Asks: Is Brexit Bad for Europe? – Carnegie Europe – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – interesting take on Brexit from a US perspective. Is Brexit bad for Europe focuses on the EUs role on the world stage including regional and global security. According to my reading of Is Brexit bad for Europe there…
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Brexit approaches + more things
Sky, Unilever and McDonald’s slash UK ad spend as Brexit approaches | The Drum – not terribly surprising. I would expect other changes as Brexit approaches. Changes in warehousing or even moving teams offshore. From a marketing perspective there is a compelling argument for a counter-cyclical strategy, which is how Proctor and Gamble built their…
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Financial services post-Brexit + more news
Interesting analysis on where the financial services industry is going to move their units post-Brexit to continue working in the EU. Post-Brexit London: 4 EU Cities Vying to Cash in on London’s Financial Services Exodus from Euromonitor International One of the key issues of concern for the financial services sector has been the lack progress…
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Pro Brexit town + more news
Pro Brexit town Welcome to the most pro Brexit town in Britain | FT – One thickset Lithuanian man asked why English people did not seem to like foreign workers. “They complain about us,” he said. “But why they not do the work?” – A lot of small towns dominated by food production, warehousing or agriculture became a…
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Brexit segmentation
Inspiration for brexit segmentation This chain of thought on Brexit segmentation got fired up when my Facebook filled up with calls to petition British Airways to strop the distribution of the Daily Mail, mainly because of headlines like: So can a brexit segmentation be used as part of a marketing strategy? There are at least…
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Brexit & more news
BREXIT – Letter to MPs from a Remain voter: a plea for realism, tolerance and honesty – this gives a great background read on how the UK chose to go Brexit. It’s also a blueprint of how project fear is likely to turn into project understating the full calamity Osborne abandons 2020 budget surplus target –…
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Brexit part 2
I was prompted to write Brexit part 2 based on the many questions from friends living outside the UK – who are trying to make sense of what is going on. Brexit is a portmanteau of ‘Britain’ and ‘exit’. The exit being from the European Union. In 2013, David Cameron announced that a conservative government…
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Brexit part 1
Why I am writing a post called Brexit part 1? Generally I find politics a bit too grubby and dirty for this blog and have only touched it when I absolutely, positively didn’t have a choice. So expect Brexit Part 1 and Brexit Part 2. On June 23, 2016 the UK goes to the polls to…