Posts made in September, 2015

on Sep 25, 2015

By Tony Connelly The coffee chain will offer staff in the UK interest free loans over a 12 month period in order to help them put a deposit down on a house. It has also announced that it will increase pay for all its baristas to £7.20 an hour from November as well as upping supervisors pay too. The changes come after the company polled its staff on the issues which they felt affected them the most and housing was revealed to be the main concern. These common worries will have been intensified following The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors prediction that house prices Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 25, 2015

By Tony Connelly The coffee chain will offer staff in the UK interest free loans over a 12 month period in order to help them put a deposit down on a house. It has also announced that it will increase pay for all its baristas to £7.20 an hour from November as well as upping supervisors pay too. The changes come after the company polled its staff on the issues which they felt affected them the most and housing was revealed to be the main concern. These common worries will have been intensified following The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors prediction that house prices Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 25, 2015

By Natan Edelsburg Fandango built it’s brand by becoming the number one destination for buying movie tickets. They’ve now transformed themselves into the number one destination for movie fans altogether. Recently they’ve been creating original video series that is turning Fandango into an OTT platform of its own. This week they launched their latest series, “Naked Lunch,” with Phil Rosenthal, the Emmy Award-winning creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and David Wild, the Emmy-nominated TV writer and longtime Rolling Stone Contributing Editor. According to the release: On the show, hosts Rosenthal and Wild promise to be fully clothed, but the conversations over lunch Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 25, 2015

By Natalie Mortimer Welcome to Take 5 where The Drum, along with jones knowles ritchie (JKR) Singapore strategy director Katie Ewer, take a bi-weekly look at some of the design industry’s best imagined packaging design where you, the reader, are in control. Every other Friday we’ll pick a theme and ask you to submit the design you feel deserves a top spot. You’ll have one week to get your entries in, the votes will be counted and the best of lot will be published the following Friday. (Make sure you scroll down to find out the next topic winging its way). But back Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 25, 2015

By Rebecca Stewart Project Everyone has realsed the first ever global cinema campaign to outline its proposal to end poverty, reduce inequalities and fight climate change. ‘We Have a Plan’ is part of an initiative which aims to put pressure on world leaders to follow the UN’s new Global Goals for Sustainable Development. The one-minute creative centres around a group of animated animals who represent each country involved in the push and was directed by Project Everyone founder and film maker Richard Curtis. Voiced by Liam Neeson, the film was created by BBH’s Sir John Hegarty and hopes to engage seven billion people Read full story › Source: The Drum...