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Halfords: We're nuts about salience. Changing the public perspective
Background
Publicis handles several major retailers. This experience has shown us how hard it is to develop a strong character positioning for a retail client, particularly given retail clients natural gravitation towards product and price advertising which can be more easily correlated with sales effects.
Having handled a small part of the Halfords account since 1992, Publicis was appointed to the main account in 1996. A new Buying and Marketing Director, Zoe Morgan, was appointed by Halfords a few months later. Our collective task was...